Lucy M. May

Choreographer

Lucy M. May is a contemporary dance artist, teacher, and writer for The Dance Current based in Montréal. In recent years, Lucy has developed choreographic work for screen, paper, site-specific locations, and the stage. Currently she is developing performances that ask how geo- and bio-social environments thread their way through human movement (Vivarium; Esemplastic Landing; reaching over a brink of darkness, folding open to a starlight trepanation). She imagines her moving body as a meeting place, where theories and conversations find confluence with what is local, sensual, or tactile. Lucy was a member of Compagnie Marie Chouinard for seven years, and dances independently with Margie Gillis, Alejandro De Leon, Sasha Kleinplatz, and choreographers based in her native province of New Brunswick. She dances to wonder after what binds micro to macro, macro to micro. Lucy is a graduate of L’École de danse contemporaine de Montreal and Codarts in the Netherlands.

Photo : Michael Slobodian