Holly Small is a dancer with a passion for inter-disciplinary collaboration. Her choreography, described as “a flawless integration of music and dance” (Globe & Mail), is presented throughout Canada, the US, UK, Europe and Asia and often features live music, video and inter-active new media. Radiant, her most recent collaboration with composer/media artist John Oswald and stage designer Emile Morin, received Dora Award nominations for outstanding choreography, music, performance and production. Other collaborations include, In the Letters of My Name, with Azerbaijani performer Sashar Zarif, which won the 2006 Paula Citron Award; two inter-active dance & video works with Don Sinclair, Night Vision: Nyx and Draw a Bicycle; and Vermillion Arc, a piece for gamelan-playing dancers choreographed and composed by Small with Intan Murtadza. Souls, her ambitious full-evening work for 46 performers ranging in age from 10 to 71 years, was named “one of the year’s 10 best” in both Globe & Mail and NOW Magazine. Other large-scale works include cadaver exquis / exquisite corpse, created with composer John Oswald and 22 renowned choreographers including Margie Gillis, Bill T. Jones and James Kudelka. Small has received numerous choreographic grants as well as a Millennium Award and the UCLA Woman of the Year Award. She has taught across Canada, throughout China, in Los Angeles and England and is a Professor at York University, where she has been teaching and researching for 20 years.