Mairéad Filgate

Mairéad Filgate (Toronto/Montreal) has created and performed nationally and internationally with many of Canada’s most celebrated dance artists. As a founding member of the award-winning collaborative trio Throwdown Collective, she spent 15 years co-creating choreography for parks, forests, stages, runways, and film. Her outdoor site-specific choreography brings to light the beauty of the everyday, most recently in Le mur (2025) performed in Montreal’s Plateau neighborhood by seven local performers. With Shannon Litzenberger, she is the co-founder of PlaySpace, applying creative practice toward collaborative leadership, community health, and inclusive culture-making. Inspired by her time as a member of Canada’s Danny Grossman Dance Company (2003-2008), Mairéad is collecting oral histories of company members, exploring the social, economic, political, and personal landscapes that influenced the company through a multitude of voices and perspectives. In 2023 she presented excerpts of her research at an exhibit at the dance: made in canada/fait au canada Festival (Toronto).