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Lydia Zimmer
dancer/choreographer

Lydia Zimmer is a graduate of Walnut Hill School for the Arts and The Boston Conservatory. Since returning to her home city of Halifax, Lydia has created several works and attended residencies overseas supported by Canada Council for the Arts and Arts Nova Scotia. These include Bonne Nuit, presented through Live Art Dance; Embankment, commissioned and remounted by Votive Dance; and Sonderling, commissioned by Nostos Dance Collectives.

Lydia completed a dance residency at Nes Artist Residency in Skagastrond, Iceland and a choreographic residency in Sofia, Bulgaria at the Derida Dance Centre. She additionally attended Banff's Creature Gesture: Collective Composition for Music and Dance. In 2021, Lydia premiered two solos, Sonderling and EXTREMOPHILE, at Festival of Dance Annapolis Royal in the summer of 2019 and 2021, respectively. Lydia was invited as a Dance Artist in Residency in 2021 at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, which will lead to the premiere of a new work in the Spring of 2023. She is premiering Mercurials in Mocean Dance’s 20th-anniversary show Fluid Forms, and is absolutely thrilled to be choreographing and performing in Holly Carr’s Light in the Forest.

Lydia Zimmer
dancer/choreographer

Lydia Zimmer is a graduate of Walnut Hill School for the Arts and The Boston Conservatory. Since returning to her home city of Halifax, Lydia has created several works and attended residencies overseas supported by Canada Council for the Arts and Arts Nova Scotia. These include Bonne Nuit, presented through Live Art Dance; Embankment, commissioned and remounted by Votive Dance; and Sonderling, commissioned by Nostos Dance Collectives.

Lydia completed a dance residency at Nes Artist Residency in Skagastrond, Iceland and a choreographic residency in Sofia, Bulgaria at the Derida Dance Centre. She additionally attended Banff's Creature Gesture: Collective Composition for Music and Dance. In 2021, Lydia premiered two solos, Sonderling and EXTREMOPHILE, at Festival of Dance Annapolis Royal in the summer of 2019 and 2021, respectively. Lydia was invited as a Dance Artist in Residency in 2021 at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, which will lead to the premiere of a new work in the Spring of 2023. She is premiering Mercurials in Mocean Dance’s 20th-anniversary show Fluid Forms, and is absolutely thrilled to be choreographing and performing in Holly Carr’s Light in the Forest.