About the Artist
Anastasia Maywood is an Edmonton-based choreographer and dance artist. Dancing since childhood, she began to focus earnestly on dance and choreography in Grade 10 when she started classes with the University of Alberta Orchesis Dance Group. She was the first high school student to ever attend classes and perform with Orchesis. Once she began her undergraduate degree, Maywood became heavily involved with Orchesis, taking classes, performing and/or choreographing for their annual show a total of seven times, Dance Motif, and being on the volunteer Executive Board. She graduated from the University of Alberta in 2006 with a BA Honors Drama Degree.
In 2009 Maywood moved to Toronto to attend York University and earn her MFA in Choreography. The MFA program focused on solo work and choreography, group choreography, producing and presenting work and culminating in a theoretical and physically-based thesis of three major dance works. During her time in Toronto she co-founded Mind the Gap Choreographers Collective with the five other members of her MFA program. Collectively, Mind the Gap produced, created for and performed their work in two independently produced shows, How Bones Sound If We Really Listen and Yes, but! She left Toronto in 2011 and returned to Edmonton to begin her active pursuit of dance and choreography.
She has performed and had her work presented in multiple festivals and venues in Edmonton, Calgary and Toronto, including Nextfest, Expanse Movements Arts Festival, The International Edmonton Fringe Theatre Festival, Mind the Gap, Dance Motif and Soulocentric Festival. With long-time collaborator, friend and fellow choreographer and dance artist Kelsie Acton, Maywood co-produced Emergence in April 2012, a contemporary dance show focusing on showcasing and promoting emerging choreographers in Edmonton.
Anastasia Maywood would like to recognize the continuing support of The Edmonton Arts Council and The City of Edmonton.
In 2009 Maywood moved to Toronto to attend York University and earn her MFA in Choreography. The MFA program focused on solo work and choreography, group choreography, producing and presenting work and culminating in a theoretical and physically-based thesis of three major dance works. During her time in Toronto she co-founded Mind the Gap Choreographers Collective with the five other members of her MFA program. Collectively, Mind the Gap produced, created for and performed their work in two independently produced shows, How Bones Sound If We Really Listen and Yes, but! She left Toronto in 2011 and returned to Edmonton to begin her active pursuit of dance and choreography.
She has performed and had her work presented in multiple festivals and venues in Edmonton, Calgary and Toronto, including Nextfest, Expanse Movements Arts Festival, The International Edmonton Fringe Theatre Festival, Mind the Gap, Dance Motif and Soulocentric Festival. With long-time collaborator, friend and fellow choreographer and dance artist Kelsie Acton, Maywood co-produced Emergence in April 2012, a contemporary dance show focusing on showcasing and promoting emerging choreographers in Edmonton.
Anastasia Maywood would like to recognize the continuing support of The Edmonton Arts Council and The City of Edmonton.