Dana Gingras

Dana Gingras is a choreographer, film-maker, performer and teacher. Her 30 year career has moved across mediums and artistic practices and has established her has a game-changing, boundary-pushing artist. Co-founding The Holy Body Tattoo in 1993 the company changed the landscape of Canadian dance, earning numerous awards and honours for its stage and film work.

Through Animals of Distinction, based in Tio’tià:ke – Montreal she has fostered the creation of cutting-edge multi media works with innovative collaborations that most recently include Group A (another 2018), Godspeed You! Black Emperor (monumental 2016, Creation Destruction 2022), Fly Pan Am (Frontera 2019) and United Visual Artists (Frontera 2019, Creation Destruction 2022, Ensemble 2023).

Her work has been performed at some of the most prestigious festivals and venues in the world including the Adelaide Festival, Luminato Festival in Toronto, the Edinburgh International Festival, BAM’s Next Wave Festival, the ROMAEUROPA Festival, Barbican Hall in London, Sydney Festival in Australia, MONA FOMA Festival in Tasmania, CTM Festival Berlin, Festival TransAmériques Montreal and PuSh Festival Vancouver.
Dana was awarded the long-term artist in residency at Centre Creation O Vertigo Danse from 2017-2019 and is an associate artist of the National Arts Centre of Canada.

Photo: Justine Latour