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We invite you to join us on November 8th as we honour Elizabeth Langley who trained generations of dancers after founding the dance program at Concordia University as well as guiding artists of all ages through their creative process.
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Elizabeth’s dance roots began in her native Melbourne, Australia where she was a performer, choreographer, and teacher. After training at the Martha Graham School in New York City in the early 1960s, she immigrated to Canada in 1965. Working in Ottawa, Elizabeth developed her choreographic and performance practice while also teaching all ages from children to adults in community and post-secondary settings as well as through her own studio. Through the 1970s, she taught at several universities including the University of Ottawa, and Carleton, Dalhousie, and McMaster Universities. She was invited to design and chair the dance program at Concordia in 1980, developing a curriculum specifically to train choreographers. Elizabeth retired from Concordia in 1997 and immediately began work on a solo show. She continued to perform her work and that of others well into the 2010s including her one-woman show "Journal of Peddle Dreams" (2003), "Fragment of a Myth" (2005) with visual artist Walter van Broekhuizen, and the short film "Light Years" (2003) by Jenn Goodwin. Throughout her career, she has worked as a mentor, dramaturge, and rehearsal director for numerous artists including Denise Fujiwara, Sashar Zarif, Maxine Heppner, Maglorzata Nowacka, Yvonne Ng and Karen Kaeja, among others.
Photos:
Top: Elizabeth Langley in her one-woman show in camera or not”, (translation “in private or not”), Montreal, 1998 / Photo: Steve Leroux
Bottom (L-R)
Elizabeth Langley teaching in Melbourne, Australia, late 1950s; Elizabeth Langley at the Graham School, 1965; Elizabeth Langley at Le Groupe de La Place Royale, Ottawa, 1978/ Photo: Ormsby K. Ford; Elizabeth Langley delivering the keynote address at Society of Dance History Scholars Conference, Toronto, 2011
⭐Tickets and information: LINK IN BIO
Elizabeth’s dance roots began in her native Melbourne, Australia where she was a performer, choreographer, and teacher. After training at the Martha Graham School in New York City in the early 1960s, she immigrated to Canada in 1965. Working in Ottawa, Elizabeth developed her choreographic and performance practice while also teaching all ages from children to adults in community and post-secondary settings as well as through her own studio. Through the 1970s, she taught at several universities including the University of Ottawa, and Carleton, Dalhousie, and McMaster Universities. She was invited to design and chair the dance program at Concordia in 1980, developing a curriculum specifically to train choreographers. Elizabeth retired from Concordia in 1997 and immediately began work on a solo show. She continued to perform her work and that of others well into the 2010s including her one-woman show "Journal of Peddle Dreams" (2003), "Fragment of a Myth" (2005) with visual artist Walter van Broekhuizen, and the short film "Light Years" (2003) by Jenn Goodwin. Throughout her career, she has worked as a mentor, dramaturge, and rehearsal director for numerous artists including Denise Fujiwara, Sashar Zarif, Maxine Heppner, Maglorzata Nowacka, Yvonne Ng and Karen Kaeja, among others.
Photos:
Top: Elizabeth Langley in her one-woman show in camera or not”, (translation “in private or not”), Montreal, 1998 / Photo: Steve Leroux
Bottom (L-R)
Elizabeth Langley teaching in Melbourne, Australia, late 1950s; Elizabeth Langley at the Graham School, 1965; Elizabeth Langley at Le Groupe de La Place Royale, Ottawa, 1978/ Photo: Ormsby K. Ford; Elizabeth Langley delivering the keynote address at Society of Dance History Scholars Conference, Toronto, 2011
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