Pamela Grundy
A graduate of the University of Waterloo, Pamela Grundy has spent the last thirty years as a dancer, director and teacher. She is a long-time member of The Danny Grossman Dance Company where she is currently Co-Artistic Director; she is also the Co-Director of the annual Granville Ferry Summer Dance Programme in Nova Scotia. As a young dancer, one of her great teachers was Judy Jarvis. Pamela was a performer with the Judy Jarvis Dance and Theatre Company from 1974-1977. Following the death of Ms. Jarvis in 1986, Pamela assisted in the establishment of the Judy Jarvis Dance Foundation where she serves as the Chair.

Carol Anderson
Carol Anderson is a choreographer, teacher and writer. A founding member and former Artistic Director of Dancemakers, she now teaches in the Department of Dance at York University. She has published two biographies, Judy Jarvis, Dance Artist: a portrait (1993) and Rachel Browne: Dancing toward the Light (1999), as well as a collection of writings by Canadian dancers, This Passion: for the love of dance (1998), and two volumes of commentary on the Canada Dance Festival, Chasing the Tale of Contemporary Dance (1999 and 2002).

The text for the biography section of this exhibit has been adapted from Anderson's Judy Jarvis Dance Artist: a portrait.

Michael Ripley (Site Designer)
The owner of Believe It Design Works, Michael has built Web sites for a variety of companies, foundations, societies and individuals. Currently, he is the Web master of record for Theatre Direct Canada, The Society for Canadian Dance Studies/Société des études canadiennes en danse and Dance Collection Danse. Most recently he designed sites for Shimmera Artistry and The Event Bureau. Also a professional actor, Michael’s primary focus is building sites for arts-related clients.
 

This Web exhibit is funded in part by a generous donation from Judy Jarvis Dance Foundation.

Dance Collection Danse gratefully acknowledges organizational support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council and all the individual donors.

All materials on this web exhibit including text, images and design are copyright of the creators.

©2005, Dance Collection Danse
Jarvis Exhibition Curator: Pamela Grundy
Biography Text: Carol Anderson
Web Design: Believe It Design Works