Dana Michel

Dana Michel is a live artist. Her works interact with the expanded fields of improvisation, choreography, sculpture, comedy, hip-hop, cinematography, techno, poetry, psychology, dub and social commentary to create a centrifuge of experience. Before graduating from the BFA program in Contemporary Dance at Concordia University in her late twenties, Michel was a marketing executive and a competitive runner and football player. Michel was awarded several Prizes, including the newly created ImPulsTanz Award (2014), the Silver Lion for Innovation in Dance at the Venice Biennale (2017), the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art (2019, the Jacqueline-Lemieux prize by the Canada Council for the Arts in recognition of her contribution to dance in Canada (2022) and the Prix de la danse de Montréal (2024).