Faculty members
Contemporary Dance full-time faculty members have extensive professional experience directing their own companies and choreographing for major multidisciplinary productions. Talented professional artists from Montreal's vibrant dance community participate as part-time faculty and guest teachers, affording students the opportunity to experience a variety of movement aesthetics and artistic visions.
Faculty members are not only active artists but also innovative researchers in dance, interdisciplinarity, new media and technology. In addition, many of our graduates are making their mark here in Canada and abroad.
Full-time faculty
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Jens Richard Giersdorf
- Professor, Contemporary Dance
- Chair, Contemporary Dance
Research areas: dance studies, dance and politics, epistemologies of dance education, dance histories, queer studies, dance analysis, choreography as knowledge system -
Angélique Willkie
- Associate Professor, Contemporary Dance
- Chair of the Concordia University Task Force on Anti-Black Racism
- Special Advisor to the Provost, Black Integration & Knowledges
- Concordia University Research Chair in Ecologies of B/black Performance
Research areas: dance dramaturgy, contemporary circus, choreographic practice, transdisciplinarity, performing arts, dance technique, identity, ethnicity, voice, movement, performance, improvisation, human body, decolonial dramaturgies -
Lília Mestre
- Co-director LePARC - Performing Arts Research Cluster within MILIEUX Institute for Arts Culture and Technology, Concordia University
- Assistant Professor, Contemporary Dance
Research areas: expanded choreography, transdisplinarity, performativity, community, collectivity, bio politics, co-learning, scores.
Professors Emeritus
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Silvy Panet-Raymond
- Professor Emeritus, Contemporary Dance
status: Professor EmeritusResearch areas: choreography, creative process, mobility, moving borders, creative approaches to public space, artistic transmission projects -
Michael Montanaro
- Professor Emeritus , Contemporary Dance
- Co-director Topological Media Lab
Research areas: transformation, transmutation, proposition/purpose, alchemy, illusion, possession/conflict, intermedia, movement, technological animation, sensory adaptation, prediction, performing arts, transparency, non-invasive systems, surroundings/the surrounded, interactivity, virtual environments, urban futures
Part-time Faculty
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Paul Chambers
- Part-time Professor, Contemporary Dance
- Part-time Professor, Theatre
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Erin Flynn
- Part-time Instructor, Contemporary Dance
status: Contemporary dance artistResearch areas: Dance Science, Dance Creation, Artistic Practice, Dramaturgy, Periodization, Cognition, Emergent Strategies -
Marie Claire Forté (she/her)
- Part-time Instructor, Contemporary Dance
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Alanna Kraaijeveld (she / her)
- Part-time Instructor, Contemporary Dance
