BELINDA MCGUIRE (dancer, choreographer, producer), originally from Toronto, graduated from The Juilliard School (BFA 2006) and currently produces, choreographs, commissions and performs solo work. Her most recent one-woman show, The Desert Island Project also engaged her as a choreographer, costume and light designer and stage manager.

“A pretty girl [McGuire] is like a Greek god, a temptress…” – Elizabeth Zimmer, METRO
“This modern dancer is making a splash as a solo artist, teacher and choreographer” – Kathryn Holmes, Dance Spirit
“McGuire is a tireless whirlwind…” – Susan Walker, The Toronto Star

Of her dancing, The New York Times writes “...with deep lunges and backward arches, Ms McGuire created a dreamy, sensual mood. But there were hints of darkness...”. Her choreography has been presented at the Festival de la Ciudad 2009 (Merida, Yucatan Mexico), the Canada Dance Festival (Ottawa), in Toronto and in New York City on the stages of the Peter Jay Sharp Theater and Alice Tully Hall, Joyce Soho as well as in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Belinda was awarded the 2008 Bessie Schönberg Residency at the Yard, and recognized by the 2007 Susan Braun Award of The Dance Films Association. As a dancer, she currently performs with The Jose Limon Dance Company and has danced with Doug Varone and Dancers, Gallim Dance, Ofelia Lorette de Mola's DANSCORES, the DOORKNOB Company and The Canadian Children's Dance Theatre.

Belinda teaches dance in Canada and the U.S.A. and finds the experience greatly rewarding.

Other interests include Argentine tango, languages, knitting, painting (flowers mostly), cooking, music from the medieval to renaissance to baroque period and doing things she has never trained in or tried before.