The Foundation
© Valerie Simmons
“Bless the continual stutter of the word being made into flesh.”
– Leonard Cohen
At the time of its creation in 1981, the Margie Gillis Dance Foundation was inspired by these words and strived to manifest in dance a vision of the human condition. Margie portrays our weaknesses and vulnerabilities. She celebrates our hopes and the power of creation and healing.
Board of Directors
President
Richard Cyr – DC
Vice-President
Margie Gillis – Artistic Director
Secretary Treasurer
Marc Daigle – Dancer, Body Worker
Administrators
Catherine Bourgeois – Artistic Director, Joe Jack et John
Linda Rabin – Somatic Movement Educator
Team
Margie Gillis – Founding Artistic Executive Director
Anita Czeski – Administrative Coordinator
Lydie Revez – Financial Controller
Pierre Lavoie – Lighting Designer and Technical Director
Valérie Cusson (Cusson Management) – Bookings
Land Acknowledgement
The Margie Gillis Dance Foundation is on land which long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations. We acknowledge and thank the diverse Indigenous people whose footsteps have marked this territory on which peoples of the world now gather.
* Haudenosaunee (h oh – D EE – n oh – SH oh – n ee ) and Anishinabeg (Ah-nish-ih-nah’-bey)