Lucy M. May

Lucy M. May (she/they) is a dance artist born in Eqpahak/Wolastokuk/Fredericton and based in Tiohtiá:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal since 2003. Her choreographic projects explore the materiality of human attention and our relationships to place and to each other. Improvisation resides at the heart of their work as a dancer, creator, and teacher, nourished by experiences performing with Marie Chouinard, Margie Gillis, Mouvement de passage, and practicing since 2018 the street dance Krump. She battles as Pluto aka Ravage Grouch. Across Canada, she has lead workshops and classes for such organizations as RQD, Artère, EDCM, Toronto Love-In, Studio 303, Kinetic Studio, Fluid Fest, DansEncorps, Empirical Freedom, and Fada Dance. Interested in alternative ways of transmitting movement knowledge, she co-created the community gatherings Off_Script and Slaughterhaus. Moonlighting as an illustrator, Lu explores the links between their dance and drawing practices.