Belinda McGuire, originally from Toronto, graduated from
The Juilliard School (BFA 2006). As an independent artist,
she primarily performs solo work, choreographs, and
engages in collaboration and production. In October, she
traveled to Amsterdam to collaborate with Emio Greco and
Pieter C. Scholten through The International
Choreographic Arts Centre Amsterdam’s Altra Cosa
initiative. A current member of The José Limón Dance
Company, she has danced with Gallim Dance, Doug
Varone and Dancers, Ofelia Lorette de Mola's DANSCORES,
the DOORKNOB Company and The Canadian Children's
Dance Theatre. She teaches as a guest artist in New York
City at Dance New Amsterdam and The Limón Institute,
and in Toronto at CCDT, Cawthra Park SS and York
University. Her choreography has been presented at the
Festival de la Ciudad 2009 (Merida, Yucatan Mexico), the
Canada Dance Festival (Ottawa), in Toronto and in New
York City on the stages of the Peter Jay Sharp Theater and
Alice Tully Hall, Joyce Soho as well as in DUMBO, Brooklyn.
She is a recipient of the 2008 Bessie Schönberg Residency
at the Yard, and was recognized by the 2007 Susan Braun
Award of The Dance Films Association. As a producer,
Belinda launched her one-woman show The Desert Island
Project in New York City and Toronto (autumn, 2008). She
also creates as a costume, light and set designer.
