a new dance work by Michelle Silagy
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Michelle Silagy is a Toronto-based independent dancer, choreographer, and teacher.
Her extensive work with youth and her choreographic work which she makes in the company of Canada’s illustrious independent dance artists sustains her desire to discover creative origins within artists of all disciplines through collaboration in dance. Michelle’s choreography is a unique blend of movement vocabularies, with an overarching goal to portray the beauty of the human form - leaving audiences feeling refreshed and inspired.
Her choreography Watermark: Visible when held against light, created with interpreters: Barbara Pallomina, Megan Andrews, Danielle Baskerville and Darryl Tracy, premiered in April 2003 at the Winchester Street Theatre. “Silagy builds her choreography around gentle but precise finger and hand movements, layered with controlled, loose-limbed physicality emanating gracefully from the rest of the body in an elegant flow of movement. Her themes are abstract into which one can read many meanings… Silagy’s work is a paean to humankind’s fragility in a cruel world.” Paula Citron (The Globe and Mail)
Michelle crafts work for intimate theatres and unconventional settings. Her work spanning 17 years, has been presented at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Dance Works at du Maurier Theatre Centre, The Textile Museum of Canada, Spring Rites, Dusk Dances, fFIDA, festivals throughout the country, and at Series 8:08, which she co-founded. Silagy is the inaugural recipient of the Toronto Dance Award for choreography from the Toronto Community Foundation. Michelle along with interpreters Andrea Nann and Megan Andrews is developing a new work, Surface Symbol as funded by The Toronto Arts Council and the Ontario Arts Council. As well she is creating a solo with and for Jennifer Lynn Dick.
A graduate of The School of Toronto Dance Theatre, she directs their Young Dancers’ Program and teaches pedagogy. Through The Royal Conservatory of Music’s Learning Through the Arts Program she combines movement with core curricula and composes written material, which introduce dance as compliment to multiple learning styles. Through the Conservatory, Silagy has collaborated with teachers throughout the country, most recently Manitoba. As well she has developed movement incentives at The Bloorview MacMillan Center Lab School where children with Cerebral Palsy are integrated into a classroom setting. Specialists regarded her work there as a Learning Through the Arts Artist as being highly innovative.
For more information, please contact Dance Umbrella of Ontario (416) 504-6429 ext. 22 or duo@danceumbrella.net
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