Claudia Moore, artistic director of MOonhORsE dance theatre, has been creating and performing movement for theatre, film, multi-disciplinary collaboration and her own dance theatre productions since the late 1970's. Recent work includes EVER THUS (2006), by Night (2004) CASA (2003), on earth (2002), the Dora award winning wishes and Small Midnight, co-choreographed by Moore and Tedd Robinson. Claudia is the recipient of the Canada Council’s Jacqueline Lemieux Award for excellence in dance and has been appointed artist-in-residence at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts.
Box Pieces, her first dance film, was commissioned by director Paul Carriere from Canada's BRAVO! arts channel. Claudia's work has been presented in Paris, Montreal, Vancouver, Halifax, Peterborough, and Buffalo, New York. She curates the company's Older and Reckless series- a forum for new work by senior artists- and conducts regular performance training workshops called Poetry in Space. Claudia is currently working with James Kudelka and Tedd Robinson on a solo dance commission, Solos for a Woman with a Man.
Moore has also collaborated with other performing artists and companies including multi-media productions with The Glass Orchestra and media designer Laurie-Shawn Borzovoy, contemporary theatre with Building Jerusalem (Volcano Theatre); and Opium (Carbone 14). Claudia has choreographed productions for the Stratford Theatre (Romeo & Juliet); the Shaw Festival (On The Town and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes); Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People (Juliet- and Romeo), contemporary opera in R. Murray Schafer's The Alchemical Theatre Of Hermes Trismegistos and Requiems for the Party Girl; and The Drowsy Chaperone for Mirvish Productions. Moore also choreographed the award winning film Exotica by Atom Egoyan. Veronica Tennant recently cast Claudia in her latest dance film, Red Hats, for BRAVO! arts channel. Her loyal patrons include the National Ballet of Canada’s artistic director Karen Kain, composer Ann Southam and Ian Morrison, spokesperson for Friends of CBC.
For more information, please contact Dance Umbrella of Ontario
(416) 504-6429 ext. 22 or duo@danceumbrella.net
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