Miranda Chan

Biography

Miranda Chan is a movement artist and director based in Tiohtià:ke, Mooniyang (Montreal) and Paris. Her work fuses her passion for energetic movement and profound sense of visual aesthetic. Chan completed her post-secondary education at the École de danse contemporaine de Montréal, where she received her diploma in the interpretation of contemporary dance. She is currently dancing for Paris based company; La Marche Bleue. During this time she is also furthering her need to have an artistic voice through movement direction, while other times following directions by being in front of the camera for modelling. She enjoys mixing film, photography and fashion with movement. In 2020, Chan began a project called Political Bodies; this project acts as a form of empowerment for those within the work and those who interact with it. A place where marginalized bodies can rise and take their space, be heard and share. It aims to demonstrate and communicate the various roles dance has in our society and how it is often the forgotten route back towards our true selves, while also used as a tool towards becoming bigger than ourselves.