A practice “The dancing shirt”

Internationally acclaimed solo dance artist and choreographer Margie Gillis has toured in Canada and internationally for some twenty years. As well as her solo work, by turns witty and rhapsodic, anguished and ecstatic, she has performed duets with guest artists including Christopher Gillis and Paola Styron, and has appeared as a guest with such major companies as Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal and The National Ballet of Canada. She has been featured in many television specials and won a Gemini Award for the 1998 CBC documentary, Wild Hearts in Strange Times. She was the first performer to take modern dance to China in 1979, and has toured India, Europe, the Middle East and North and South America. Both Canada and Quebec have named her a cultural ambassador. Critics refer to the charismatic soloist as "a living legend," and unanimously applaud, as do her audiences, her passionate presence.

She is 50 now and still dancing. I just saw her perform again after almost 8 years here in Manitoba she is as amazing and wonderful to watch as the first time I ever saw her perform 20 years ago. She is my true roll model in modern dance.

She still has her beautiful long blond hair reaching down to her waist an plus point that makes her one of a kind her hair is always part of the dance movements. So very feminine and fairy like.

Self portraits