Sky Fairchild-Waller

Sky Fairchild-Waller (b. 1987) is an American-Canadian artist based in Toronto. His work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Die Schweizerische Post, and presented in Assisi, Beijing, Boston, Brooklyn, Cairo, Calgary, Cologne, Montréal, New Delhi, São Paulo, Toronto, Turin, Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Zürich. A former student of the National Ballet School of Canada, he completed his formal education at York University and the University of California, Berkeley. Sky has performed professionally for over a decade, appearing in work by James Kudelka, Daniela Kurz, Tino Sehgal, Twyla Tharp, and in world premieres by Diane Borsato (CA), Susan Cash (CA), Brendan Fernandes (US), David Frankovich (FI), John Greyson (CA), Derek Liddington (CA), Heather Nicol (CA), Tracey Norman (CA), Kaitlyn Regehr (UK), and Lucy Rupert (CA). He is an alum of the Jeux die Canada Games National Artist Program, Metcalf Foundation Performing Arts Program, Canadian Stage RBC Emerging Artist Program, and is a 3-time recipient of the Koerner Foundation's Award in Performing Arts. In 2013, he was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Choreography and later served as a Juror in the Dance Division during the 2015/16 awards season.