Hybrid Media Designer and Developer
Before becoming a developer, I had a celebrated career in the performing arts as dancer and choreographer. A livelihood in the arts instilled a sense of hard work, focus, team building, and a unique consideration for creating experiences (I believe artists and developers similarly want to create engaging and meaningful experiences). I’m a strong believer in life-long learning and lateral thinking, as both allow cross pollination of ideas, approaches, and solutions. As a designer, I bring with me the invaluable and transferrable skills acquired from my time in the arts.
Live performance has a beautiful, fleeting quality, as it only exists in the moment of its performance; in contrast, digital works have the potential – through decentralized copying, transferring, and duplicating – to remain on a device, server, or hard drive somewhere indefinitely. By bringing the qualities that make performance so special into enduring, web-based, digital environments, I create works that live beyond the moment of inception, create unique experiences, and continue to grow and evolve.
Photographs by Sam So
Human Body Expression
Photographs by Jeremy Mimnagh
adelheid
Photographs by Jeremy Mimnagh, Ginelle Chagnon, and Francesca Chudnoff
Citadel + Compagnie
Photographs by Heiko Marquardt
Christoph Winkler
More Works
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Luke Garwood and Mairead Filgate in Yvonne Ng's Magnetic Fields (2014). Photographer: Jeremie Andrew
Luke Garwood in Darryl Hoskins' Land of Fuck (2012).
Luke Garwood, Molly Johnson, and Tina Fushell in Fushell's Waving is Funny (2014).
Luke Garwood in Lauren Cook and Troy Feldman's overlook/outlook (2017). Photographer: Sam So
Luke Garwood, Louis Laberge-Cote, and Matthew Waldie in Christopher House and The Hidden Cameras' In the Boneyard (2005).
Luke Garwood in Delerium's Day Turn Into Nights music video (2013).
Luke Garwood in Balaklava Blues at the Latitudes festival in the UK (2018).
Luke Garwood and Linnea Swan in Allison Cummings' Final Savage Land (2013). Photographer: Omer Yukseker
Luke Garwood in Christopher House's dis/(sol/ve)r (2009). Photographer: Kristy Kennedy
Luke Garwood in Christopher House's dis/(sol/ve)r on the cover of The Dance Current (2009). Photographer: David Hou
Luke Garwood, hanging out. Photographer: Michael Sean Marye (2013).
Luke Garwood in Jacob Niedzwiecki's Jacqueries: part 1 (2013). Photographer: Vish Hansa
Luke Garwood in Kate Hilliard's Album (2014). Photographer: Jeremy Mimnagh
Luke Garwood and Johanna Bergfelt in Yvonne Ng's That Moment When (2019). Photographer: Ken Ewen
Luke Garwood and Danielle Baskerville in Darryl Hoskins' Jackie Burrroughs is Dead and what are you going to do about it? (2016).
I’m a hybrid media designer, developer, dancer, and choreographer based in Toronto, Canada. I have over a decade of experience as a dancer and collaborator with many of Canada’s foremost dance makers. I've been nominated for 6 Dora Mavor Moore dance awards, receiving one with Michael Caldwell and Naishi Wang for best ensemble in Heidi Strauss' what it's like in 2017. I was also part of the team that won a national Faust award in Germany in 2015. Outside of dance I pursued a passion for coding and programming by attaining a BDes in Digital Futures from OCAD U, where I received the Dr. Eugene A. Poggetto, and Dorothy Hoover awards. As a creator, I’ve been acknowledged for the way I merge performance with technology –– this includes receiving the 2013 Soulpepper Multidisciplinary Dance Award.