Lucy M. May
Chorégraphe, Enseignant.e, Interprète
Lucy M. May (she/they) is a dance artist born in Eqpahak/Wolastokuk (Fredericton) and based in Tiohtiá:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal since 2003. Her choreographic projects, presented across Canada, explore the materiality of human attention and our relationships to place and to each other. Improvisation resides at the heart of their work as a dancer, creator, and teacher, nourished by experiences performing with Canadian choreographers, in CHSLDs, and practicing the street dance Krump. She battles as Pluto. She has led workshops and classes at organizations including RQD, Artère, EDCM, Toronto Love-In, Studio 303, Kinetic Studio, Fluid Fest, DansEncorps, Empirical Freedom, Fada Dance, and Gold Saucer. Interested in alternative ways of transmitting movement knowledge, she facilitates gatherings such as Off_Script, Slaughterhaus, and WIPSHOP. Their studies in Contemporary dance were completed at l’École de danse contemporaine de Montréal and CODARTS | Rotterdamse Dansacademie. Moonlighting as an illustrator, Lu explores links between dance and drawing practices.