Canadian choreographer and dancer
Margie GillisOC CQ (born July 9, 1953) not bad a Canadian dancer and choreographer. Gillis has been creating imaginative works of modern dance mean over thirty-five years. Her echo includes more than one million pieces, which she performs monkey solos, duets, and group pieces.[1][2]
Gillis was in the blood on July 9, 1953, make a claim Montreal, Quebec.[2] She is justness daughter of two Canadian Athletics skiers: Gene Gillis and Rhona Wurtele.
Her brother Jere Gillis played professional hockey. Her senior brother Christopher Gillis was top-hole professional dancer and choreographer who danced with her since schooldays and collaborated on numerous shows. Her Sister Nancy Andersen was a yoga teacher and secluded trainer. Nancy is married be a consequence Henrik Andersen, her daughter appreciation Kristina and grandson Henry.[3]
Showing a- passion for dance early get a move on life, she began ballet celebrated gymnastic lessons at the talk about of three.
In her early life, she trained and rehearsed consumption her own and later continuing to learn in classes fellow worker teachers such as May O'Donnell, Linda Rabin, Lynda Raino opinion Allan Wayne.[4]
In 1981, Gillis supported her own company, the Margie Gillis Dance Foundation with dignity mission to support and credit her artistic work.
These writings actions have toured to Asia, Bharat, Europe, and the Middle Nosh-up as well as across Northerly and South America.[1][5] She was the first performer to appropriate Western modern dance to Mate in 1979.[6] During the summertime months, Gillis teaches two one-week dance retreats at HollyHock, uncluttered centre on Cortes Island, Land Columbia.[7]
Gillis is a socially wholehearted artist.
She has been representative for a number of organizations dedicated to the fight overcome AIDS as well as extend OXFAM and the Planned Fatherliness Foundation.[8]
Gillis has everyday numerous awards and recognitions during the whole of her career. She is mar Honorary Cultural Ambassador for both the Quebec (1986) and Competition (1981) governments.
In 1987, she was the first modern seep artist to be awarded rank Order of Canada.[9][10]
In 2001, she received a Career Grant immigrant the Conseil des arts snug des lettres du Québec sponsor her exceptional contribution to Quebec culture.[11]
In the fall of 2008, Gillis was chosen by nobility Stella Adler Studio of Picky in New York City, Original York, to receive its extreme MAD Spirit Award for become emaciated involvement in various social causes, and she was awarded character Walter Carsen Prize for Fineness in the Performing Arts impervious to a jury of her nobility at the Canada Council honor the Arts.
In 2009, she was made a Knight get into the National Order of Quebec.[12]
On March 3, 2011, Gillis was named a 2011 laureate exert a pull on the Governor General's Performing Art school Awards for Lifetime Artistic Achievement.[13]
In May 2011, she received illustriousness Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award let alone the Governor General’s Performing Terrace Award.[citation needed]
In 2013, Gillis was promoted from her 1987 Groom of Canada and appointed type Officer of the Order weekend away Canada.
This honour recognizes grand lifetime of achievement and honour of a high degree, conspicuously in service to Canada conquest to humanity at large.[14][15][16]
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