2023-09-05
 
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Mairéad Filgate

Mairéad Filgate (Montreal/Toronto) is a Dora Mavor Moore Award winning performer (Ensemble – Public Recordings) and choreographer (with Throwdown Collective), and a K.M. Hunter and Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prize nominee. In 2022 she premiered Note the Weather, her first independent, full-length, site-specific work, on the grounds of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Toronto). Mairéad has had the immense privilege to tour to India, China, Mongolia, France, Belgium, UK, USA, and across Canada. She makes regular sojourns to NYC to study with the Trisha Brown Dance Company. Recent projects include works with Gabby Kamino, Sashar Zarif Dance Theatre, tiger princess dance projects, Roshanak Jaberi & Karen Kaeja, Erin Flynn, Marie-Josée Chartier, and Compagnie Katie Ward. A member of the Danny Grossman Dance Company from 2003-2008, Mairéad is currently collecting oral histories of the company’s storied three decades.