the company

Belinda McGuire - Artistic Director

Sky Fairchild-Waller - General Manager

Sky Fairchild-Waller (b. Whistler) is an American-Canadian artist, creative consultant, General Manager of Belinda McGuire Dance Projects, and Principal of The Auxverb Institute based in Toronto. His live and lens-based work has received support from the Canada Council for the Arts and presented in Assisi, Beijing, Boston, Brooklyn, Cairo, Calgary, Cologne, Montréal, New Delhi, São Paulo, Toronto, Turin, Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Zürich. A former student of Canada's National Ballet School, he received an HBFA and HBA from the School of Art, Media, Performance & Design at York University followed by graduate studies at the University of Toronto. Over the past 25 years he has performed in work by Reid Anderson, Perry Bard, James Kudelka, Yoshi Oida, Tino Sehgal, Twyla Tharp, and in world premieres by Diane Borsato, Brendan Fernandes, David Frankovich, John Greyson, Will Kwan, Derek Liddington, Heather Nicol, Tracey Norman, Lucy Rupert, and Sashar Zarif.

A decade after working for Warner Bros. in the U.S. and while completing college Sky appeared as Ryan Evans in the Canadian Premiere of Disney's High School Musical 2: On Stage! at the Toronto Center for the Arts in 2009, and represented the Province of Ontario as 1 of 3 National Artist Program members of Team Canada at the Jeux de Canada Games later the same year. In 2012, he was awarded a Metcalf Foundation Performing Arts Internship serving as the inaugural Artistic Director Intern for World Stage, Harbourfront Centre's international contemporary performance series, under the leadership of Tina Rasmussen, Laura Nanni, Lynanne Sparrow, Margaret Evans, and Christopher Reynolds. With support from the Canada Council for the Arts he apprenticed in dance programming and production throughout the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and co-produced the North American premiere of Bennett Miller's Dachshund UN for World Stage. He was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award in the category of Outstanding Choreography for Of a Monstrous Child: A Gaga Musical presented by Buddies in Bad Times Theatre and later served as a Juror in the Dance Division during the 2015/16 Awards Season. He is an alum of the Canadian Stage Royal Bank of Canada Emerging Artist Program and a 3-time recipient of The Koerner Foundation's Award in Performing Arts.

Research contributions include A Playful Proposal: Remixing Neurochemistry and Queering Consciousness in the Social Sphere with Anna Gallagher-Ross, presented at Rutgers University; How To Be When We See: Social Codes, Spatial Domestication, and the Performance of Viewing with Cara Spooner, presented at Association des Commissaires des Arts du Québec; and, Sexwork(s): Permutations of Explicit Satire and Catharsis with Jessica Thalmann, presented at the University of Toronto Mississauga. He served on the Board of Directors of Dance Media Group/ Groupe Danse Média, publisher of Canada's Dance Magazine The Dance Current, was a founding member of The Love-In's Board of Directors, and has contributed to the Canadian Theatre Review, ADONE Magazine, and CIUT 89.5FM.

Solomon Weisbard - Design Supervisor

Solomon Weisbard is based in New York City and works in dance, dance/theatre, and avant-garde music, leading him to create original full-length pieces with Alethea Adsitt, Jennifer Archibald, Maria Chavez, Ximena Garnica / Leimay, Lane Gifford, Martha Graham Dance Company, Invisible Anatomy, Ofelia Loret de Mola, Patrick Lovejoy, Stefanie Nelson, The Nerve Tank (as resident designer), Waxfactory, and four major works as associate set designer with Bill T Jones. Selected theater credits include Macbeth, Equivocation (Arden); Men on Boats (Clubbed Thumb); Luis Alfaro's This Golden State: Delano (Magic); The Soldier’s Tale (Yale / Carnegie Hall); Stones in his Pockets (Yale Repertory Theatre); The Coronation of Poppea (Princeton Opera); Cherry Smoke (Working Theater); The Film Society (Keen / Theatre Row); I Came to Look for You on Tuesday (La Mama); White’s Lies (New World Stages); Christina Anderson’s Hollow Roots (Public Theatre - Under the Radar); The Homecoming, Cedars, Lion in Winter, A Class Act (Berkshire Theatre Festival); Jitney, A Christmas Carol (Drammy Nomination, Portland Playhouse); Faust, The Barber of Seville (Tri-Cities Opera); and Frank London’s A Night in the Old Marketplace (international tour). As an educator and guest artist, Solomon has taught and worked with students at Bard College, Barnard College, Connecticut College, City College, Columbia University, DeSales University, East Stroudsburg University, New York University/Tisch School of the Arts, Princeton University, University of Rochester (where he was visiting adjunct faculty), and Yale University. Weisbard received his BFA from Ithaca College and his MFA from the Yale School of Drama.

Mikaela Demers - Assistant Producer

Mikaela Demers is a dance artist originally from Northern Ontario. An alum of the School of Art, Media, Performance, and Design, she graduated from York University with a BFA in 2015 and more recently from Generator’s Artistic Producer Training program in 2019. Mikaela has appeared in the work of Lisa Emmons, Megan English, Vanessa Jane Kimmons, Brian Solomon, and Fernando Troya, and her recent choreographic works include the premiere and provincial tour of maelstrom (2017), and the pack : creature (2018). Outside of her work as a performer, choreographer, and filmmaker, Mikaela currently produces Branch Collective in Sudbury, Aeris Koper in Hamilton, and Belinda McGuire Dance Projects in New York.

Neil Sochasky - Rehearsal Director

Neil Sochasky is a dance artist based in Montreal. His career wearing various hats as performer, rehearsal director, œil exterior, choreographer, teacher and coach has spanned four continents working for dance and theatre companies in both Canada and France. He has performed for some of Canada’s most renowned dance companies including O Vertigo, Toronto Dance Theatre, Dancemakers and Sylvain Émard Danse. His choreographies and installations for theatre troupes Transborder and La Compagnie Pavlov have been presented in Paris and in Los Angeles.

“I hold that the subject of dance is not the body, nor movement, but humanity. As an artist working in media where we observe action, I hope to remind people of the potential wealth of physical experience and of the importance of empathy in the nurturing of civilization — our common experiment.” - Sochasky