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Dana Gingras is a pivotal figure in Canadian contemporary dance, renowned for blending movement with multimedia and live music. Co-founding The Holy Body Tattoo in 1993, she helped shape a generation of boundary-pushing performance. In 2006, she launched Animals of Distinction (AOD) to explore cross-disciplinary works and multimedia experiences beyond traditional stage confines. Her work Frontera is a large-scale multimedia dance piece that unites choreography, a live score by Fly Pan Am, and visuals by United Visual Artists (UVA). Since its Quebec premiere in 2019, Frontera has toured internationally, with notable performances in Montreal, Vancouver, Sydney, Berlin, and beyond. The US premiere arrived in 2024 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), featuring Fly Pan Am’s live score and UVA visuals. Gingras’ discography is closely tied to Fly Pan Pan Am’s releases on Constellation Records, with significant projects like Frontera (2021) and Mirror Cracks Seeking Interiority (2020).