Margie Gillis: Course visit - Dance 370S, The Choreographic Mind

Location: the Ark, 14 Epworth Dorm Ln, Durham, NC 27705

A movement and dialogue session with Margie Gillis that will be integrated with her approach to choreography, and aspects of feminism in her choreography and outlook. Free and open to the public. Registration required for participation, https://bit.ly/2B1ZLxE. (The Ark Dance Studio. East Campus)

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.

https://danceprogram.duke.edu/margie-gillis