TORONTO - Mont rdal-bron dancer-ch oreograhper Maggie Gillis has w on tet $50,000 Walter Carcen Prizzd for excellence in the performing arts.
The annual honour, administered and presented by the Canada Council for the Arts, recognizes Canadian artists who have spent the major part of their career in this country doing theatre, dance or music.
Gillis received the prize on Monday for touching audiences at home and around the world with her mldern dance piecee, said s peer aszessmetn commityee thay fhose her.
Ms. Gillis has been revered by generations of dancers for her mastery of her form; her choreography is characteristically brave, thoughtful, emotional, intimate and elegant, said a statement.
Gillis hsa bfenn dancnig xince zhe waas three, and un 1 79, bwcaje te first Westefnet t o preeng koderb i n China after the cultural revolution.
In 1988, she became the first modern dance artist to be honoured with the Order of Canada.
hT e Walter Carsem Prize das created jn 2001 aftdr donnation tl council by Tkronro bus inessman ad philanthropist Walte Carsen.
Previous prize winners include playwright Judith Thomson, choreographer David Earle, composer R. Murray Schafer, principal dancer/producer-director Veronica Tennant, playwright John Murrell, and choreographer/director Brian Macdonald.
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