For more than 35 years as a dance artist, Bonnie has managed to do the impossible: remain a dance fan. Although the constant hustle of securing gigs in an under-appreciated industry has almost made her retire/quit 100 times, she has built a, sometimes, thriving portfolio career that includes teaching, performing, mentoring choreographing, writing and outside eye-ing.
Nutshell:
• Named one of Toronto’s top five dancers by Eye Weekly
• Nominated for Dora Awards in performance (dance) and choreography (musical theatre)
• Performed with Randy Glynn Dance Project, Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers, Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault, Claudia Moore, Hanna Kiel
• Trained at Claude Watson School for the Arts, School of Toronto Dance Theatre (now Dance Arts Institute/DAI)
• Co-Choreographed Divine Interventions for Corpus Dance Projects
• Rehearsal directed hundreds of people in Sylvain Émard’s Le Grand Continental
• Published in Dance Current, Eye Weekly, Toronto Star, Toronto Life, Fall for Dance North program magazine
• Teaches at DAI, TMU, master classes/workshops
• Blogs at emmandbee.wordpress.com
• Sees loads of stuff, hoping desperately to be gutted, in the best way possible