About the Artistic Director

 

Rebecca Hope Terry has been performing professionally for over 16 years. A versatile and respected artist throughout Canada, Ms. Terry has performed in over 65 theatres internationally. As a dancer she has performed with many Canadian contemporary dance companies - 100 shows with Dancemakers alone, one of Canada's finest modern dance companies, with whom she danced for seven years.

 

She is a  multi-disciplinary performer, dancer, actress, writer, singer and choreographer. Her insight into the physical and soulful components of the body and its relationship to the self has led her to a career in healing. In 2006 she opened her Craniosacral Therapy practice, Bloom, as well as enrolling in the Barbara Brennan School of Healing in Miami, Florida.

 

Ms. Terry's experience in various disciplines gives her the ability to understand each process from the inside, as well as the freedom to work and perform deeply. When teaching or working on a new creation she may draw knowledge from one discipline to enlighten and enrich the process for another.

“The Eggshell Lady - a sublime piece of clowning from Rebecca Hope Terry. Her timid character’s struggle with eggshells and gravity – every step, crunch and cringe timed to perfection – reduced Friday’s audience to hysteria, while at the same time stabbing the heart with compassion and recognition- that flash that illuminates, for the duration of a belly laugh, the trajectory of hopes and crumbled dreams that make up a human life." -Tamara Bernstein, National Post, Feb. 2, 2004

Her work has been presented in Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary, Edinburgh and most recently rural England. She found that her reflective process could be shared with other people in challenging situations, giving them- an essentially artistic, and possibly self-evolving tool that can bring fullness to their lives.

"Terry can, however, claim a lifetime membership among a select group of performers with a natural gift for transmitting emotional sincerity and vulnerability." -                     Kamal Al-Solaylee, The Globe and Mail, Oct. 1, 2003

Ms. Terry not only teaches Modern dance to professional dancers, but also teaches Voice for dancers. She taught movement at the Marymount Correctional Centre for Girls in Winnipeg as well as aboriginal high-schools and performing arts high-schools throughout Canada and the U.S. These workshops have been very successful in the sense that they have offered intellectual, physical, emotional, and artistic development for both the participants and the facilitators.