CV

m.gerussi@gmail.com

Choreographic Presentations & SCREEnings

2022 – untitled collaboration, In House IV, Cafe OTO, London

2021 – The Moon Rises in Four Parts (M. Gerussi, T. Valcarcel), Kinesthesia Festival, London

2021 – The Moon Rises in Four Parts (M. Gerussi, T. Valcarcel), Rendez-Vous Quebec Cinema, Montreal

2020 – Hold, Rest, Retrace (M. Gerussi), Concrete Cabaret: Online Holiday Edition, Toronto

2019 – Collection of Felt Movements (M. Gerussi, N. Gossen), Altes Finanzamt, Berlin

2018 – To the Beat of Their Own (Collective creation), Neues Nachbarschaft, Berlin

2017 – Resonant Tide (M. Gerussi, E. Leblanc), Axis Syllabus Summit, Tanzfabrik, Berlin

2017 – Screening & Seminar, Last Place We Met (M. Gerussi, T. Valcarcel), Le Salon, Berlin

2017 – Last Place We Met (M. Gerussi, T. Valcarcel), New Blue Dance Festival, Toronto

2016 – Invitation to Pull (M. Gerussi, E. LeBlanc), Unfinished Fridays, Lake Studios Berlin

2015 – Resonant Tide (M. Gerussi, E. LeBlanc), Test Drive, Dancemakers' centre for creation, Toronto

2015 – Resonant Tide (M. Gerussi, E. LeBlanc), Studio 303, Montreal

Selected Performance Work

2022 – untitled work by SERAFINE1369, Fest en Fest, ATP gallery, London

2022 – Turn your cloak For fairy folks Live in old oaks (Sop), Wellcome Collection, London 

2021 – Begin in The Middle (Neither Me, Nor The Bucket) (A. Gale-Feeny), Performance Exchange festival, London

2017 – Stereovision (Pedro&Juana, Francesco Pedraglio), The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery,Toronto

2016 – (E)merging properties (Mtst_Collective), Transmediale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

2015 – Radio Project (Erin Hill), Summerworks Performance Festival, The Theatre Centre Incubator, Toronto

2015 – Radio Project + Resonant Tide (Michaela Gerussi, Emily LeBlanc, Erin Hill), Studio 303, Montreal

Technical and Artistic Training (Outside of school)

2022 – What's Collective workshop with Public Recordings, Take Me Somewhere, Glasgow

2021 – Oracular Practice: choreography course with SERAFINE1369, Siobhan Davies Dance, London

2020 – Choreographic Improvisation workshop with Rosalind Crisp, Groundwork Pro, Cardiff

2019 – Conversations on Performance, seven-day seminar for emerging artists, Festival TransAmeriques, Montreal

2019 – 'A Worn World' choreographic workshop with Thomas Plishke, HZT/Weisensee universitaet, Berlin

2019 – Open class with Jeanine Durning, Toronto Dance Theatre, Toronto

2018 – 'Nobody's Dance', sharing practice workshop with Alice Chauchat and Eleanor Bauer, Uferstudios Berlin

2018 – Practice of the Practitioner, Cranial-Sacral workshop with Shannon Cooney, Bethanien, Berlin

2017 – Axis Syllabus at the Nomadic College, Tanzfabrik, Berlin

2017 – Dynamic Expansion workshop with Shannon Cooney, TO dance community Love in, Toronto

2015 – Creation Lab workshop with Benoit LaChambre, Ponderosa, Berlin


Residencies, Grants and Awards

2022 – Featured images and text, The Dance Current spring issue, Toronto

2020-present – Producer/co-founder, Dance Outside Dance podcast, London

2019 – Honey & Salt Creative Residency with Tracy Valcarcel, Red Clay Arts, Upper Economy, Nova Scotia (CA)

2018 – Official Selection, WomenCineMakers 2018, Biennal Edition for Last Place We Met

2016 – Creative residency at PA-F, St-Erme, (FR)

2015 – Canada Council for the Arts travel grant

2015 – Month-long Artistic Residency, Lake Studios Berlin


EducatioN

2019-2021 – MFA Creative Practice; Dance Professional Practice, Trinity Laban Conservatoire for Music and Dance & Independent Dance, London

2009-2013 – BFA graduate with distinction in Contemporary Dance, Concordia University, Montreal (CA)