Eilish Shin-Culhane

Artist-in-Residence (2023/2024)

Eilish Shin-Culhane is a Tkaronto based artist, dancer, and choreographer of Korean and European descent. She is additionally a dance educator and certified Pilates instructor. She received her B.F.A. in Dance from Marymount Manhattan College in New York.

As a dancer, Eilish has had the privilege to perform in works by Peter Chu, Bill T. Jones, Frog in Hand, Anton Lachky, John Heginbotham, Theatre Oculus, and Adam Barruch. She has additionally trained with Johannes Wieland, Anouk van Dijk, Andrea Miller, Ryan Mason, Isadora Wolfe, and Stefanie Batten Bland.

Eilish's choreographic work explores the nuance of authenticity through both abstracted and highly physical gestures - playing with emotionality, theatre, vocalizations, exhaustion, and connection. She has presented works at Marymount Manhattan’s ‘Dancers at Work’, NYU’s ‘Choreofest’, Aeris Körper's 'PROSPECTS', MillO Dance Projects ‘Nightfall’, and Dance Ontario’s ‘Show & Share Sessions’. Her choreographic mentors have included Bonnie Kim, Elisabeth Motley, Linda Garneau, and Alyssa Martin. She recently began exploration for an upcoming commission from Peggy Baker Dance Projects, through the National Ballet’s Open Space Programme.

Eilish was presented at our 2023 season of Discover Dance. Read host, Dainty Smith's, response and reflection here!