Joe Laughlin is the founding Artistic Director of Joe Ink . A particularly versatile choreographer, Joe has received numerous commissions to create for dance, theatre, and arts organizations including the Canada Dance Festival, the National Arts Centre, Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet and the Johannesburg based company Moving into Dance Mophatong among others.

He has created several productions for Joe Ink most recently (in)habitat, Timber/Timbre and the interactive Media/Dance show GRACE. His works have been performed throughout Canada, in the US, the UK, Europe, South Africa and South Korea. Joe recieved the 2006 Isadora Award for excellence in choreography, the Jacqueline Lemieux prize from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Banff Centre for the Arts Clifford E. Lee Award.

Well known for his personable teaching style, Joe’s ability to inspire dancers and non-dancers alike to discover their individual movement potential is one of his unique talents. His passion for working with communities led him to create  Move It!

Commissions

Arts Umbrella
Ballet British Columbia
Ballet Kelowna
Dancers for Life
Decidedly Jazz Danceworks
EDAM Dance
National Arts Centre
Royal Winnipeg Ballet
Ruth Cansfield Dance
The Canada Dance Festival
The International Dance and the Child Conference
The KISS Project
Vancouver International Children’s Festival
Vancouver Island Youth Dance Theatre

Residencies

Banff Centre for the Arts

Projects: an interdisciplinary production of Stravinsky’s Les Noces, James Reany’s landmark Canadian play Sticks and Stones and Herr, a dance for the camera directed by John Greyson.
September 2004