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| Darby Gibbs,nee Milbrath is from Victoria, British Columbia. She left
the sea shore to study with the renowned School of Contemporary Dancers in the senior professional program, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. In her four years on the prairies, Darby had the privilege of dancing with Canada's finest teachers and choreographers. She received her BA honors from the University of Winnipeg in affiliation with the School of Contemporary Dancers in May 2007. Darby is currently working with Gaile Petersson-Hiley and Mouvement, Winnipeg's Dance Projects, on the exciting new full length piece, 'Bronte.' Darby is currently a Toronto based dancer, where she continues her training and choreography. Darby is proud to be involved with the creation .maDAM. Dance company with Amelia Laidlaw and Ming Hon. They premiered their first full length show, 'DAM Madness' in Toronto's Fringe Festival in June 2008. This marked the commencement of .maDAM. Dance, and the possibility of future collaborative endeavors. Darby recently created a solo for the show, 'Five Cycles,' a series of short dance works, and performed it in a laundromat in Toronto in November 2008. Concurrent to her choreography and dance, Darby is writing and illustrating a children's novel. Furthermore, she hopes to publish her first children's book titled, 'The Sickled Foot', as well as other fictional and autobiographical short stories and nonsense poems. |
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| Amelia Laidlaw. Prairie girl and dancer born and raised. Amelia spent four years training at The School of Contemporary Dancers Senior Professional Program in Winnipeg, Manitoba with renowned teachers and choreographers from around the world. During the program and since graduating in May 2007, Amelia has performed professionally with Young Lungs Dance Exchange; in various projects with Mouvement Winnipeg Dance Projects, in Giana Sherbo's full length work ' The Playground' as well as in her own choreography. Most recently, since resituating in Toronto, Amelia has joined forces with Ming Hon and Darby Gibbs to found .maDAM. dance company and create their first full-length collaborative work, 'DAM Madness' which premiered in the 2008 Toronto Fringe Festival. She recently co-produced 'Ready in Five Minutes: A series of short cycles', in which she created and performed a solo in a Toronto laundromat. She hopes to continue to inspire and challenge both performers and audience with a series of oddly situated performances in the coming months. Amelia has spent the autumn immersed in a Yoga Teacher Training Program with Octopus Garden Yoga Centre and looks forward to teaching both twelve year olds and eighty year olds in the new year. |
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| **The Unauthorized Bio of MingHon*
Hong Kongnese, Canadieniese, Veganese (sometimes... ), lover of LP's from '68 to '74 (preferred), living in love/hate with the bizarro, 'one great city' of: Winnipeg, an undead, used to be 'Chicago of the North'. Her arrival to Winnipeg in the winter of '83 was due to her father's fear of coming communist policies and mother's desire to see a real live snowflake. Upon arrival Ming quit swimming, skating, piano, and chinese lessons and chose dance forevermore. She is continually seeking more experience, gathering research and data, and discovering places of inspiration in her life with dance, through all mediums of art, travel, literature, silent films (studying Harold Lloyd chase scenes), loving local organic produce, yet enjoying imported Belgian beers, executing culinary challenges, strumming her ukulele from Hawaii, and cataloguing a collection of digital photos of the endless dumpstered mattresses from the rooming houses in her back lane, and never giving up on the beauty of a run-on sentence. *The Authorized Bio of Ming Hon* A graduate of the Senior Professional Program of the School of Contemporary Dancers, Ming is an active member of the Young Lungs Dance Exchange in Winnipeg, as well as a proud new founding member of .maDAM. dance company. She has had the opportunity to perform and create works in Toronto Distillery Jazz Fringe Festival, Young Lungs Biannual Showcases, and work under Giana Sherbo, Natasha Torres-Garner, Stephanie Ballard, Gaile Petursson-Hiley, and Adesola Akinleye. Over the past years she has been discovering dance in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Brockport, Taipei, Hong Kong, and Vienna. Most recently she had the incredible experience of training under Tedd Robinson in 'The Barn' located in Western Quebec for his 'Exclusive Intensive Residency' along with taking classes and receiving coaching under Susie Burpee, and Peter Boneham. |
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