Georgia Simms is a performing artist, educator and facilitator. Her dance performance career spanning 20 years both as a company member with Dancetheatre David Earle and as a freelance artist, has taken her to different parts of Canada, France and South Korea.

Since 2005, she has hosted classes for adults that honour the lineage of modern dance technique, offered to her by David Earle and Suzette Sherman, with strong ties to the work of Martha Graham. She has also developed a syllabus of movement improvisation studies along with her community of students.

These experiences in dance combined with her academic studies, in geography, governance and arts-based community engagement, inform her creation of learning experiences for students in the First Year Seminar Program at the University of Guelph. Her course, “A Different Kind of Dance” is in its 6th year of delivery and refinement.

She also weaves movement into methodology, program design, and group facilitation as a consultant for regional arts organizations and universities.

She remains grateful for the opportunity to have been an artist-in-residence with Guelph Dance (2020-2021) and for ongoing involvement as a guest choreographer with the Guelph Youth Dance Training Program.

She lives in Guelph, Ontario, with her husband, Adam, and their five-year old daughter.