Margie Gillis Movement Session: Creative Collaboration as Social Action

Course visit: Dance 390S, Creative Collaboration as Social Action. A movement and dialogue session with Margie Gillis that will be integrated with her addressing the collaborative, healing nature of the connection between artist and audience, teacher and student. Margie has worked closely with specialists in conflict resolution and she will also address using movement as a critical tool in reducing conflict. Free and open to the public. No dance experience necessary. Registration required for participation, https://bit.ly/2RGZPxj (The Ark Dance Studio. East Campus, 14 Epworth Lane, Durham, NC 27705)

Margie Gillis, Canadian choreographer, performer and teacher, is based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. At sixty-five years of age, she has maintained an active career that is followed with interest by audiences of all ages. She is one of a rare handful of mature artists who continues a full and ongoing process of discovery, transition and transformation, by constantly reinvestigating and reinterpreting the power of dance through her immersion in her career as creator, performer and teacher. In 1979, Margie was invited to teach and lecture in China, thus becoming the first artist from the West to introduce modern dance after the Cultural Revolution. Two years later the Margie Gillis Dance Foundation was created with the mission to present and support her work. Her repertoire now includes more than one hundred creations, which she performs as solos, duets and group works.