Artist Info
Keith Dalgleish
Keith Dalgleish’s background has precipitated a variegated career in the arts, including dance, performance, choreography, fine art production and exhibition, and teaching. He received a Certificate in Sign Painting from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (Edmonton, 1982), a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction in Painting from the Alberta College of Art and Design (Calgary, 1993), and a Diploma in Dance from the Grant MacEwan Community College (Edmonton, 1997). He has studied theatre, music, and body therapies in several institutions across Western Canada, including Vipassana meditation retreats (Merritt, BC), Art of Living Workshops (Calgary, AB and Montreal, QC), and coursework at the Hoffman Institute Canada (Toronto, ON).
Dalgleish has facilitated experiences in movement and dance with Grant MacEwan College (Edmonton, AB), the Alberta Ballet School of Dance (Calgary, AB), and the Integrative Medicine Institute (Calgary, AB). In 1994-95 he worked with Barbara Lisek to choreograph Anatomy: The Heartbeat Adventures of Every Body, a children in dance production performed at the University of Calgary’s University Theatre. Since the 1980s, Dalgleish has also been an arts instructor, working independently, with the Calgary Young People’s Theatre, and with the Alberta College of Art and Design, where he developed Creative Impulse, a course designed to integrate aspects of visual and performing arts to assist individuals in moving through fear and self-limitation. Since 2008, he has worked with the Calgary Board of Education as a motivational speaker on the subject of Life.
Dalgleish was awarded a dance scholarship by Alberta Culture in 1986, and in 2001 he received a Visual Arts Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. He has exhibited work in solo and group shows in Calgary’s artist-run centres since the 1990s. From 2002-2003, he owned and directed Dalgleish Gallery (Calgary, AB). In 2017, his work was included in a group exhibition to mark the inauguration of Calgary’s cSPACE, a social enterprise that supports communities of artists, non-profits & entrepreneurs working at the creative edge of change. His work is held in the collections of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts (Edmonton, AB), the Alberta Ballet School of Dance (Calgary, AB), and First Energy Capital Corporation (Calgary, AB).
