Video interview

Legacy Project – episode 2: Teaching

Date

Summer 2015

Editor

Dorian Nuskind-Oder

Recording

Dorian Nuskind-Oder

Production

The Margie Gillis Dance Foundation

Music (Episode 2)

Suzie LeBlanc, Stephen Stubbs, Daniel Taylor & Arion Ensemble Handel (Rinaldo, HWV 7: Act 1, Scene 7 : Cara Sposa, Amante Cara)

The Margie Gillis Dance Foundation presents The Legacy Project / Projet Héritage, an initiative dedicated to preserve and transmit Margie Gillis’ unique and important creative heritage.

The combined documents are from the first project development stage, which took place in Acton Vale in the summer of 2015. The pilot project enabled more than 10 participants from Canada and the United States to intimately enter Margie’s creative world through discussions as well as performance, creation and teaching workshops.

Thanks

The participants to the summer 2015 project: Lindsey Renee Derry, Maggie Forgeron, Kate Hilliard, Ruth Levin
Teresa Marcaida, Troy Ogilvie, Susan Paulson, Makaila Wallace, Daphne Fernberger and Springboard Danse Montreal and the dancers of the 2015 edition.

The video was produced in collaboration with the Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault.

Project

The Legacy Project

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