Richard Gorrie is president of the GCDF board. He has a theatrical background: as an academic he studied the history of theatre riots and as a performer he has toured coast-to-coast-to-coast. Currently, he researches and supports educational design, development and technology at the University of Guelph, as an associate director of the Centre for Open …
Mosa: The GCDF blew my socks off my first summer in Guelph, 2006. I moved here with my daughter from Toronto in the dead of winter, and the festival really played a part in my finding my artistic bearings in this new much smaller city. Mosa at the GCDF 2010. I was so impressed with …
Mosa: The GCDF blew my socks off my first summer in Guelph, 2006. I moved here with my daughter from Toronto in the dead of winter, and the festival really played a part in my finding my artistic bearings in this new much smaller city. Mosa at the GCDF 2010. I was so impressed with …
Daniel Poulin is the Assistant General Manager of the GCDF. You can often find him MC’ing the outdoor events and teaching theatre during the Arts Explosion Camps. He also works at the University of Guelph in peer-counselling and is the acting-chair of the Board of Directors for Out On The Shelf. Daniel MC’ing the 2008 …
Everyone at GCDF wishes you a very Happy Holiday and a wonderful New Year full of dance! Visit us back here after January 19 for more stories of dance and the dance community.
Catrina: While much of my time as the General Manager of the festival revolves around grant-writing and securing funds to make it all possible, without doubt, my favourite time of the year is when I can put all number-crunching aside and devote myself entirely to being one of the co-artistic directors of the festival and …
On Wednesday, November 23, Robert Kingsburyperformed as part of the CSA Nooner at the University of Guelph. We asked him to describe his experience. Robert: My first piece of choreography as an adult was site-specific. I was studying music at York University and in an attempt at taking dance classes again, I found myself in …
Barbara: Hi all! So happy to meet you here. To catch you up: I’m Barbara, this year’s GCDF PR go-to and, quite incidentally, Catrina’s sister (GCDF co-Artistic Director). I’m also going to be the “blog-master”, which means I will make sure you have a steady stream of fresh stories—a new post will go up every …
Janet: I arrived in Guelph having had an action-packed, intense, dynamic and, at times, intimate experience with the dance community of T.O. This was a rich time, for sure, but I was starting to feel myself get jaded, worn down a bit by the high and low of being a dancer/choreographer in the big smoke. …
Janet: I arrived in Guelph having had an action-packed, intense, dynamic and, at times, intimate experience with the dance community of T.O. This was a rich time, for sure, but I was starting to feel myself get jaded, worn down a bit by the high and low of being a dancer/choreographer in the big smoke. …