Recent creation/performance work includes:
based on actual unrelated events (2009), which relates living locally, learning languages and global agriculture, through love and the search for home.
Coffee for One (2007), an un-disciplined performance created through a series of tasks in order to discover the most important thing.
dance like no one is watching for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2009 with 30 dancers performing in relay traversing Toronto over 12 hours.
"Off the wall, impossible to categorize, fun!" -Montreal Gazette
"One of the city’s most engaging artists." -Toronto Star
Meagan O’Shea has worked with thousands of students through Ontario Arts Council’s Artists in Education program, creating and delivering week-long dance workshops in public schools.
Meagan has been guest artist in residence at fabrik Potsdam in Germany, New Dance Alliance (NYC), Earthdance (MA), Dance Base in Scotland, and in Canada at Le Groupe Dance Lab, Sunshine Coast Dance Society, The Banff Centre, and The Theatre Centre. She also works as a director, creative facilitator and teacher. In the summer of 2010 Meagan was an invited teacher at the Ponderosa Tanzland Festival in Germany.
Meagan O’Shea has created ensemble work for the School of Dance (2010), York Dance Ensemble (2010), IDAC (2006 & 2008), Loose Confederacy of Newfoundland (2004), Crimson Coast Dance Society (2004), YMI Dancing (1999-2008), and for Dusk Dances (2002) and Dance Ontario (2001).
A community leader, Meagan is co-founder (2004) and co-artistic director of hub14, an organization that supports dance and related arts through presentation, workshop and residency programs. www.hub14.org. In 2006, O'Shea participated in a workshop to design the BFA program in contemporary dance at Berlin’s New School. In 2009/10 season she was a Dora Award Dance Juror, and currently sits on the Professional Development Committee for Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists (CADA).www.standupdance.com
O'Shea is the recipient of over 20 grants from Toronto and Ontario Art Council, and Canada Councils for the Arts. These grants have been awarded to support her in the research, creation, performance, production and teaching of new dance-based performance.
Beginning April 2011, Stand Up Dance will offer a DVD with teaching instruction of a unique community choreography.
