Lucy Rupert

With Fujiwara Dance: Eunoia, I Eat the Stars, Longing, and Moving Parts

Lucy Rupert is a dancer, choreographer, writer, and creator of Blue Ceiling dance (founded 2004), through which she has created and produced over three dozen works of contemporary dance and multidisciplinary performance. For the last decade, Lucy has researched and explored the connection between scientific and artistic processes through interviews, artistic creations, and collaborations with scientists.

Lucy’s work has been presented by dance: made in Canada/fait au Canada festival, the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Dusk Dances, DanceWorks, Guelph Dance, the Stuttgart International Solo Tanz-Theatre Festival and in unconventional spaces throughout Ontario. Her recent solo show ‘heartless’ was nominated for three Dora Mavor Moore Awards.

Lucy has performed with noted companies such as Fujiwara Dance Inventions, Theatre Rusticle, Nova Dance, Theatre Passe Muraille, hART dance, Puppetmongers Theatre, Circus Orange, Chartier Danse, Anandam Dance, Sashar Zarif Dance, Free Flow Dance Theatre Company (1995-1999), and many other independent choreographers and creators.

With a Joint Honours BA in Dance and Music from the University of Waterloo, an MA in History from the University of Toronto, Lucy is a lifelong learner, currently studying philosophy through Oxford University’s Continuing Education Department.

Lucy is a mom, a birdwatcher, a citizen scientist, a singer-songwriter and a writer on creative process and dance history. She lives in west-end Toronto with her husband, her son and a feral cat, in a neighbourhood full of coyotes and old trees.