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Georgia Rondos

Georgia Rondos

Artistic Director: Out of Proportion Dance Theatre
Modern Dance Choreographer and Performer

Resident Choreographer and Teacher: Port City Dance Academy

506.657.3877 651.8506
georgia.rondos@gmail.com

GEORGIA RONDOS

Is a modern dance choreographer, performer and teacher. She is originally from Montreal and also lived and worked in Toronto for six years. While in Toronto she founded,

Out of Proportion Dance Theatre

in 1993. When Georgia and her family moved to Saint John, in 1995 she brought the company with her, creating the first professional dance company in the city. For the past fifteen years, Georgia has been Resident Choreographer and dance teacher with Port City Dance Academy. She has taught dance at all levels and at UNBSJ, Saint Andrews Arts Council, Danceability and on the Kingston Peninsula. Georgia has played an integral role in developing the dance community in Saint John, in particular modern dance. In 1996 Georgia co-produced a dance event called

Saint John Dance Works

. The purpose for this anual dance event was to bring the dance community together and introduce Saint John to her work and modern dance. It was here that OOP premiered its first work, a solo titled

Wrapped

(1995) danced by Andrea Scott. In later years, the piece was performed by several of PCDA’s senior students: Alex Mortimer, Kate Miller, Syreeta Hector (at Toronto’s FIDA Festival) and Tara Butler (dancer with Jorgen Ballet of Canada) at Imperial Theatre and in an artsnb funded short film titled

The Coat the Wrap the Hankie: Dance Images from New Brunswick

. In 2007, Georgia choreographed and directed a full length multi-media work titled Stages,

Gnossiennes and Places Unknown 2008,

Urban Tracks and Ask Alice 2009,

One Woman, One Potato and D’Andy 2010.

Before moving to Saint John, Georgia worked with a number of dance and theatre artists in Montreal and Toronto. In Toronto, Out of Proportion Dance Theatre premiered two works titled Pedestal and Virtuoso. The following year, with An Encounter in Parts, dance critic Paula Citron wrote "Toronto’s Georgia Rondos showed improved choreographic craft with her clever duet exploring the tentativeness of relationships..."

Georgia was the Choreographer and Assistant Director for St. Thomas University Theater productions The Kitchen and choreogrpaher for Oh What a Lovely War. She also choreographed and performed in Opera New Brunswick’s productions of Carmen and Amahl the Night Visitor.

Some of the original works Georgia has created in Saint John for Felicita PCDA’s performing group, include: Falling, Seeing Circles, Dancing with a Bowl of Pasta, Desert Walk, The Coat, H20, Untitled, Rendezvous, Eights, Ballerina and Clown, Urban Rush, Brandenburg, Dress Up, Dress Down, Waltz Four Three, Where Have all the Flowers Gone , New Beginnings, Step, Turn, Jump and Le Gros Costaud.

Georgia trained in Montreal, Toronto and New York, in modern and ballet technique. For four years in Toronto she pursued Independent Dance Studies at York University. She holds a B.A. in Political Science and a Minor in Women’s Studies from McGill University. Georgia has served as a juror for the New Brunswick Arts Board. She is an artsNB recipient of Professional Development Grants, Arts by Invitation, Documentaion Grant, Creations Grants and Saint John Regional Grant.

Out of Proportion Dance Theatre

continues to collaborate with local and national artists and create new original and thought provoking choreography.