Shelagh McKenna

Shelagh McKenna (born 1955 in London, England) is a Canadian dancer, director and choreographer.^[1]

She performed in the Broadway Dance Festival and with American Chamber Ballet in the 1970s, and her dancing is the subject of a documentary in the Jerome Robbins Archive at Lincoln Center. Her choreography is included in collections of the National Resource Centre for Dance (England) and Jacob's Pillow Festival. Several works were presented at fifteen festivals in Europe and North America during the 1980s. One of them won three awards and another was selected for broadcast by Bravo! in the 1990s. The American Dance Guild invited her to speak on choreography for the camera at the Hong Kong International Dance Conference and Selma Jeanne Cohen invited her to confer with members of the Kirov Ballet on dance archiving. In 2008 her paper 'Choreography and the Camera' was presented in Athens at the UNESCO International Dance Council World Congress on Dance Research.

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