Internationally acclaimed choreographer and dancer Margie Gillis’ art has spanned five decades, breaking norms and inspiring people along the way. In 2023, Margie Gillis celebrated 50 years of creation and dance, with a repertoire of more than one hundred works.  She launched the Legacy Project (2015), an initiative dedicated to transmitting Margie’s concepts of creation, teaching and humanitarian vision. Her numerous awards and distinctions include the Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award from the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award. She is also Knight of the Ordre national du Québec and Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2020, she received an Honorary Doctorate degree from Concordia University in recognition of her extraordinary contributions to modern dance, teaching and activism as one of the most influential dancers and choreographers in the 20th and 21st centuries.