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Malgorzata Nowacka

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MALGORZATA NOWACKA
Artistic Director

Malgorzata Nowacka is the founding Artistic Director of The Chimera Project, acclaimed as one of Canada's most exciting up and coming high-octane urban contemporary dance companies.

Nowacka's choreography was named one of Top 10 performances of the year in The Globe and Mail (2001, 2003, 2006), in NOW magazine (2006), and best of International Dance Festival (Toronto, 2005). She is the recipient of the Paula Citron fFIDA award, the Toronto Emerging Artist Award, and the Chalmers Award, as well as recognized annually through grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council.

Nowacka's innovative and boundary pushing creations are rooted in ballet, urban, contact improvisation and martial arts fused together in gravity defying choreography. Her work has been performed in some of most prestigious contexts, including the Canada Dance Festival (National Dance Center, Ottawa), DanceWorks Mainstage Series (Toronto), Dancing on the Edge (Vancouver) and Dance Victoria (Victoria).

Nowacka's dance training includes The School of Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre in New York City, The School of Dance in Toronto directed by Bengt Jorgen, and with Debbie Wilson.

As an educator, creation and workshop credits include Ryerson University, McMaster University and Earl Haig. The principles of her teachings are inspired by the need to develop and maintain superb technical facility and performance survival regiment for her company members. Nowacka's classes and workshops focus on bringing to maximum the body's artistic expression.

Other projects have included choreography for W.T.F TV / commercial, Northbound Leather fashion show, and many others, including two Bravo!FACT funded films.

Nowacka is also a co-host of CIUT's EVI-DANCE, on 89.5 F.M, highlighting what's hot in local and international dance on Toronto's stages, and special world features which include dance in England, Montreal, and Vancouver.

Updated: 11/26/2007