Choreographer & Dancer

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Rebecca Margolick is a dancer and choreographer based in New York and raised in Vancouver Canada. Her solo and multi disciplinary works have been presented in Turkey, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Germany, France, Costa Rica, Poland, Bulgaria, Israel, and around the U.S and Canada. She was named Top 25 to Watch in 2021 from Dance Magazine.

She has been commissioned to create original works on La Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Ballet B.C.’s Annex, Ailey/Fordham BFA Program, Michiyaya Dance, and DancePORT Derida. She will be creating a new work on Oregon Ballet Theater for their 2023/2024 season.

She has received fellowships from the New Directions Choreography Lab at the Ailey School, The Conney Conference, and a LABA Fellowship at the 14th St Y in NYC. She has been Dance Artist in Residence at The Banff Centre for the Arts, and has had residencies through the Dance Deck in Vancouver B.C., La Galerie Choreographique in France, BC Movement Arts Society, and was a 2017 GPS Fund Movement Research Artist in Residence at Derida Dance Center in Sofia Bulgaria. 

She has been awarded funding from Canada Council for the Arts, Trust for Mutual Understanding, American Dance Abroad, and the Canadian Embassies in Costa Rica and Mexico.

She is rehearsal director and dancer with Chuck Wilt’s UNA Productions, and was a dancer with Sidra Bell Dance New York from 2012-2016. Freelancing, she has worked with a number of artists including Annie Rigney, Belinda McGuire, Kayla Farrish, Allen Kaeja, Patricia Norowol, Jerome Bel (The Show Must Go On), Derrick Belcham, Emily Terndrup, Maya Orchin, Shay Kuebler, and Barak Marshall, among others.

Rebecca is an Artistic Associate of BC Movement Arts Society - a non profit society based in the remote village of Sointula, British Columbia, bringing together urban and rural to present contemporary dance, residencies and associated outreach. She graduated from New York University Tisch School of the Arts, and trained at Arts Umbrella.