Daily Spotlight: Calla Lachance
January 07, 2011
Calla Lachance spent her childhood growing up on the eastern shores of Nova Scotia. She is a dancer, choreographer and educator and has studied contemporary dance, contact improvisation, low ariel trapeze and mixed ability dance in Canada, the US and Switzerland. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in dance, and a Masters Degree in dance studies from York University.
As a performer Calla has presented in festivals in Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Eugene Oregon and Bern Switzerland. The Festival of New Dance 2008 marks her first performance in St John's since moving here in 2006. Calla was appointed the dance representative for the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council in March 2008. She is currently a board member for the newly founded DanceNL.
She has extensive experience teaching dance, particularly as it relates to contemporary dance, creative process, contact improvisation and mixed-ability dance, which promotes dance as a means of creative expression for people with and without disabilities.
For more information regarding Calla Lachance, feel free to visit NLAC's website at http://www.nlac.nf.ca/aboutus/bio.htm.