About the Instructor:
Monique Legaré
is an internationally known teacher of Folk Dance and a native of
Montréal, Canada. She trained as a teacher and a dancer, and performed
with les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal Ballet Company and studied
dance in Canada, USA, and Poland. She graduated from the Choreography
School Folk Dance leader program in Plovdiv, Bulgaria and did extensive research on folk dance in
Hungary. She taught on the North American continent, Poland and Ukraine.
Recent seminars and workshops where she taught include Texas Folk Dance
Camp, Mainewoods Folk Dance Camp, and Ontario Folk Dance Camp.
A
remarkably versatile dancer, she directs the Monique Legaré International
Dance Company. In 2008 she took over the artistic direction of the Janosik
Polish Dancers founded by her late husband in 1971. She was interviewed
for Polish Heritage month and appeared on television on WHYY in 2005 and
2008. |
