Randy Glynn

Choreographer/dancer

“After Godot”

Randy was 24 when took his first dance class with Elizabeth Langley in Ottawa in January, 1975. He had just spent 5 years in the Yellowknife in the NWT working as a machinist, welder, mechanic, rooming house manager and forms designer with the Territorial Government. Dance seemed a logical next step. After Ottawa he went on to Halifax intent on studying Music and English, but instead became a dancer. In Halifax he studied at the Halifax Dance Co-op with Pat Richards, Nora Stoval, Penny Evans and Sekai. He also helped form and manage Halifax’s second contemporary dance company, The Halifax Dance Co-op Dance Company with Sara Shelton Mann as the Artistic Director. In the fall of 1977 he joined the Danny Grossman Company in Toronto and went on to tour internationally with them for 10 years. In April of 1987 he premiered his own dance company, The Randy Glynn Dance Project at Toronto’s Premiere Dance Theatre. His 1986 work “Kyrie” was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award and in 1988 he won the Clifford E. Lee Award. Randy created over 25 dances, all of which were performed on major stages across Canada.