georgia skinner

 Georgia is primarily a hip-hop and contemporary choreographer, dancer, and teacher in the HRM. She has been Coastal Dance’s Hip-Hop Department Head for 5 years and has performed with The Woods Hip-Hop Company since its inception in 2010. Through the Company and the instruction of Alexis Cormier she has taken street dance into her choreography and blended it

with contemporary movement to create her own signature of creation that aims to both entertain and show deep thought. As a queer artist she has always been a proponent for diverse gender identities and works to foster a comfortable environment for all within rehearsals, classes, and performance spaces, while pushing for artistic excellence.

In 2011 she attended The School of Toronto Dance Theatre’s Professional Training Program for modern dance where she has been privileged to work with choreographers Massimo Agostinelli, Kate Alton, Marc Boivin, Robert Desrosiers, Danny Grossman, Sharon B. Moore, Ted Robinson, Julia Sasso, and Darryl Tracy. As part of her education, she performed in The 60 Dancer Project by Ted Robinson at the Canada Dance Festival 2014 in Ottawa.

Post-graduation from the School, Skinner returned to her hometown where she performed with The Woods Hip Hop Company, Nostos Collectives, Mocean Dance, and Rooted Dance Projects. She worked with Olivia Aubrecht and Vivica Ballard to create an ad-hoc performance of B-Side in 2016. She was also awarded Kinetic Studio’s Explorations Artist Award in 2019, where she created a multi-disciplinary work in collaboration with installation artist Elizabeth

Powell. Georgia currently works as a Paramedic with EHS. She has been working extensively on the blend of contemporary and hip hop dance within her choreography, and is invested in dancers with a high level of urban dance training to execute elevated creations.