Tom Stroud

A graduate of the Simon Fraser University School for the Performing Arts, Tom Stroud has danced with the Karen Jamieson Dance Company, T.I.D.E. (Toronto Independent Dance Enterprise), Le Groupe de la Place Royale, and Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault. As a choreographer he established a strong national presence and toured extensively across the country where his emotionally charged choreography earned him a reputation as a creator of passion, wit, and humanity.

He has been commissioned to create works for Le Groupe de la Place Royale, Montreal Danse, Dancemakers, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s New Music Festival and the Canada Dance Festival. Tom served as Artistic Director of Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers from 1991- 2004 and during his 14-year appointment added a number of challenging new works to the company’s repertoire including: Songs (1992), Broken Symmetry (1993), Company (1994), The Last Sleep of the Virgin (1995), Shift(1995), R & J... 21 scenes for Romeo and Juliet (1995), The Raft (1997), Arrows (1998) The Garden (2001), El Río (2002), Vuelta,(2003), and Desdemona (2004).

In 2002, Tom received the prestigious Choo San Goh Award for choreography – one of only eleven choreographers in North America to receive the award that year. Currently, in addition to pursuing his interests in creation, Tom teaches theatre, voice and movement for the University of Winnipeg’s Department of Theatre and Drama, as well as improvisation and composition for The School of Contemporary Dancers, Main Dance (Vancouver) and Series 808 (Toronto).