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Andrew Tay was born in Windsor Ontario where he attended the Walkerville Centre for the Creative Arts. Since finishing his B.F.A in contemporary dance at Concordia University, Andrew has had his work presented at Espace Tangente, Studio 303, the National Theatre School, Festival Vue Sur La Releve (Montreal), the Square Zero Dance Festival, (Ottawa) and at La Rotonde (Quebec City). Residencies have included the Foundation Jean-Pierre Perrault, the summer artist in residency program at studio 303, a week long intensive with Kat... [more»]hy Casey and her dance company Montreal Danse, and a two-week summer residency at the O Vertigo Centre for creation. An avid music lover, Andrew has collaborated with members of Montreal based music group The Belle Orchestre and has become known for his intense and emotionally tough creations set to music by long time collaborator vitaminsforyou. Their latest combined effort The Space Between was performed at the Performance Mix Festival in New York City in March 2007 and will be reprised as part of the Neighborhood Dance Works festival in St. Johns this Summer 2009. In 2005, his work was shown in video form as part of Cirque du Soleil's show Torrida. Collaborating with French visual artists Sophie Dejode and Bertand Lacombe (Floating Land) he presented Dancing is Paradise an absurd musical comedy set inside a giant fridge at the Skol gallery in January 2007. Most recently Andrew was one of 12 choreographers invited to create work for the Sonya and Yves project which took place in Dec 2008. Andrew and his company Wants&Needs danse (co-founded with Sasha Kleinplatz) have produced the popular dance events Piss in the Pool and Short&Sweet in Montreal. [«less]
