Springboard Performance
Photo: Alyssa Maturino
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Exile will premiere in February 2025 at The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity as a part of their Final Tuning residency!
Exile is birthed from the futuristic womb where water and clean air are a scared resource that’s running out.
Exile explores Michalsky primal and rigorous movement signature, acrobatic partnerwork, as well as themes of mass unity, euphoric groove and euphoric riot and surrender.
Both wind and water have been a saviour in Michalsky’s journey of rebirth --- they’ve helped her climb out and through the chaos of personal and professional hardships and begin again. The goal is to give that human experience to the audience.
This work has 5 large industrial fans, a water trough and the potential for a live band on scaffolding if funds allow it.
Meghann Michalsky
Meghann Michalsky is a dance artist currently working in Alberta. She is the co-creator of Project InTandem and YYC Contemporary Technique Training, two programs that offer opportunities to emerging artists in Canada. She was awarded the 2019 RBC Emerging Artist Award at the Mayor’s Lunch for Arts Champions - she is the first Dancer/Choreographer to receive this award. This season she is the selected choreographer for Final Tuning at the Banff Centre for the Arts in February 2025.
Since completing her BA in Contemporary Dance, with a concentration in Choreography and Performance, at the University of Calgary. She has rigorously pursued her dance technique training in Canada as well as in Israel, Portugal, Sweden, the U.K., the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium & Austria.
Between 2014 and the present she has created twelve new works and three dance films. Six of these were major works between 20 – 35 minutes in duration. Her most recent choreographic works have been presented prestigious festivals such as Dance Made in Canada | fait au Canada (Toronto), artsPlace (Canmore), Mile Zero Dance (Edmonton), Citadel + Compagnie (Toronto), University of Calgary, Chutzpah Festival (Vancouver), Jeanne & Peter Lougheed Performing Arts Centre (Camrose), Project InTandem (Calgary), Fluid Festival (Calgary), Stream of Dance Festival (Regina), Convergence (Edmonton).
Her choreographic research starts with her trust in the body and investigating how bodily experiences are deeply embedded. She creates highly visceral works that combine intense musculature and athletic physicality. Her movement signature has been described as vigorous, raw, and intricate. Her knowledge of Hip-Hop and Krump movement principles has influenced her development of isolated, rhythmic, bound, and fast-twitch movement qualities into her contemporary choreographies. She has been awarded Choreographic Residencies from the Centro Jobel (Italy), Vitlycke Arts Centre (Sweden), Banff Centre for the Arts, New Dance Horizons (Regina), amongst many local Alberta opportunities.