Megan Morrison

Megan’s dance training is rooted in classical ballet, modern, and contemporary dance. She has trained at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School, the Alvin Ailey School, and with Paris Opera Ballet teachers, among others. She is a graduate of the Simon Fraser University School for the Contemporary Arts, where she majored in dance performing works by choreographers such as Lesley Telford, Wen Wei Wang, and Rob Kitsos. She has worked with choreographers such as Meredith Kalaman, Joshua Beamish’s MOVEthecompany, and SQx Dance Company where she toured across Canada to teach and perform contemporary dance to youth. Megan continues to evolve her creative practice while balancing life as the mother of her three year old daughter, a role that enriches and informs her artistic vision.

Every living person moves through the world in a body that carries its own narrative. Each gesture, posture, and physical experience is imbued with meaning, offering insight into the interiority and multiple facets of the human condition. Dance is powerful in its ability to give form to these intricacies of inner life, allowing the body to become a kind of common ground. It is from this place, the body, that I hope to encourage audiences to become more attuned to themselves. Through my work, by making visible the language of the body, I aim to move audiences across the proscenium divide that separates performer and viewer. In doing so, I hope they may find a deeper connection to the narratives they carry within themselves and an entry point into the intimate space of their own internal world.