Megan English

Megan English is a dancer, choreographer, and improvisor based in Hamilton.

Selected Works

  • The Feeling of What Happens

    Piece description: Have you ever wanted to go back and experience a moment over again? Either because it was such a pleasurable one or because you wish you had done something different. The Feeling of What Happens is a performance based on this human impulse and the fantasy of the redo. It harnesses the container…

    The Feeling of What Happens
  • A Sublime Order

    Piece description:  ‘A Sublime Order’ is a careful selection of common movements performed to organ driven art rock. The performers reaffirm the ritual essence of dance while elevating everyday movement to ceremonial status. ‘A Sublime Order’ invites us to find the sacred in the hum drum of dailyness and to have faith in the ritual…

    A Sublime Order
  • Second Wind

    Piece description: Flow. Play. Wildness. Stifle. Nature. Energy. Breath. Impact. Burst. Sustain. Feel. NO. yes. Remember. Yield. Sense. NO. yes. Know. Shift. Step. Hit. Animal Body. Go. Wild.

    Second Wind
  • Send Music

    Piece description: A sequence of openings set to a propulsive compilation of musical introductions. An attempt to hold onto the potency and anticipation inherent in the beginning. This dance is hooked on the start.

    Send Music
  • Big Hill

    Piece Description: ‘Big Hill’ is a dance work for five dancers that uses the natural incline of a hill as its stage. Mountain (or in this case a hill) is a universal metaphor for the action of striving. The dancers embody the emotional and human experience of striving through the physical trajectory of travelling up…

    Big Hill
  • The Nell Shipman Project

    A tribute to the work of Nell Shipman, one of Canada’s first female filmmakers. The piece is an attempt to emulate the odd tempo and rhythmic quality of the movement in her silent films. An abstract play on the quirky dramatics and adventurous storylines. Nell is always the heroine!

    The Nell Shipman Project
  • This Dance is Mic’d

    Piece description: A tribute to singer/songwriter Judee Sill. The piece couples the stage movements of folk and rock musicians. It draws on the contrast between the serene and tumultuous moments of her life and imagines her life if she had gone electric. 

    This Dance is Mic’d
  • Collaborations and Improvisation

    A selection of Megan’s improvisation performances and collaborations.

    Collaborations and Improvisation