Mile Zero Dance

Gerry Morita

Gerry Morita (BA Dance/ MFA Theatre) is from the rolling hills of Rex, Saskatchewan, and has lived and worked in Vancouver, Montréal, and Tokyo as a dancer, choreographer, performance artist and teacher before arriving in Edmonton in 2001. Her performances have toured Poland, Turkey, Estonia, Canada, and Japan.  

Morita’s body of work involves continuous inquiry into new ways of seeing movement, the body, and the spaces between us. She studies and teaches contact improvisation, Noguchi Taiso and other somatic-based and improving techniques, working with artists from all disciplines in a vast array of both conventional and site-specific venues.

She has received the Mayor’s Award for Innovation in Artistic Direction, the Edmonton Salute for Excellence, Edmonton Artists’ Trust Fund and was recognized by the AFA as one of Alberta’s 25 Influential Artists. 

  • “The Disaster Show” is a timely and critical piece about the global climate emergency. The work explores the vulnerability of the human body facing climate change, pitted against fire, hurricane, and melting ice in a series of vignettes providing both a lament and a warning. It is an interdisciplinary site-specific collaboration set in a non-traditional warehouse venue where dancers enact scenes of climate chaos, based on fire, hurricane, and melting ice.

    We are seeking touring partners/ engagements for this one hour site-specific work to tour in 2025-27, and are committed to sharing the work globally.