BIOGRAPHY
Zorya Arrow is a Winnipeg-based artist of mixed settler ancestry, who has been working professionally in dance, theatre, and film for nine years.
Zorya is passionate about collaboration, and the application of contact improvisation, clown, communication, abstraction and realism, and storytelling in her work. She has created over fourteen original live performance works, and has been commissioned and presented by Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers, Company Link, and Nova Dance Collective. Additional presentations of her live/film works have been presented by Young Lungs Dance Exchange, Fem Fest Cabaret-Sarasvati Productions, Nuit Blanche Winnipeg, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Theatre Projects Manitoba Salon, James Black Gallery (Van.), Soupstock Festival, WNDX, and a video installation of her’s was presented by Video Pool Media Arts Centre at Poolside Gallery alongside Toby Gillies. Zorya choreographed The Threepenny Opera (Sick + Twisted/AA Battery) directed Heavenly Bodies (Happy/Accidents/Gislina Patterson) assistant directed Deserter (Moving Target Theatre Company), and curated Contemporary Dance Works for the Canada Summer Games.
Selected live performance credits include; Hamlet (Bunchback'd Toads), A Short History of Crazy Bone (Theatre Projects Manitoba), Flesh + Machine (Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers), Rencor Vivo (The Mariachi Ghost, Halifax); and dance work with Alexandra Elliott, NAfro Dance Productions, Stephanie Ballard, Riley Sims (Toronto), Ming Hon, and The Long Take Collective (Natasha Torres-Garner). She will be appearing as the lead actor in Erin Buelow’s upcoming feature film, and has performed in other film works by Erin Buelow, Arne McPherson, Danielle Sturk, Michelle Wilson, Lasha Mowchun, Scott Leroux, Isabelle Kirouac (BC), and Phoebe Chard.
Zorya holds an honours degree in Dance, with a minor in Theatre and Film, from the University of Winnipeg, in affiliation with The School of Contemporary Dancers Senior Professional Program. Her additional studies in Grotowski physical theatre, and clown have been hugely influential in her work.
Currently, Zorya is in the early development stages of creation for a new dance work, as well as working for Young Lungs Dance Exchange, an artist-run support organization, as Managing Artistic Director.
Zorya is passionate about collaboration, and the application of contact improvisation, clown, communication, abstraction and realism, and storytelling in her work. She has created over fourteen original live performance works, and has been commissioned and presented by Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers, Company Link, and Nova Dance Collective. Additional presentations of her live/film works have been presented by Young Lungs Dance Exchange, Fem Fest Cabaret-Sarasvati Productions, Nuit Blanche Winnipeg, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Theatre Projects Manitoba Salon, James Black Gallery (Van.), Soupstock Festival, WNDX, and a video installation of her’s was presented by Video Pool Media Arts Centre at Poolside Gallery alongside Toby Gillies. Zorya choreographed The Threepenny Opera (Sick + Twisted/AA Battery) directed Heavenly Bodies (Happy/Accidents/Gislina Patterson) assistant directed Deserter (Moving Target Theatre Company), and curated Contemporary Dance Works for the Canada Summer Games.
Selected live performance credits include; Hamlet (Bunchback'd Toads), A Short History of Crazy Bone (Theatre Projects Manitoba), Flesh + Machine (Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers), Rencor Vivo (The Mariachi Ghost, Halifax); and dance work with Alexandra Elliott, NAfro Dance Productions, Stephanie Ballard, Riley Sims (Toronto), Ming Hon, and The Long Take Collective (Natasha Torres-Garner). She will be appearing as the lead actor in Erin Buelow’s upcoming feature film, and has performed in other film works by Erin Buelow, Arne McPherson, Danielle Sturk, Michelle Wilson, Lasha Mowchun, Scott Leroux, Isabelle Kirouac (BC), and Phoebe Chard.
Zorya holds an honours degree in Dance, with a minor in Theatre and Film, from the University of Winnipeg, in affiliation with The School of Contemporary Dancers Senior Professional Program. Her additional studies in Grotowski physical theatre, and clown have been hugely influential in her work.
Currently, Zorya is in the early development stages of creation for a new dance work, as well as working for Young Lungs Dance Exchange, an artist-run support organization, as Managing Artistic Director.
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