Abby, originally from Treaty 4 territory in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, is a contemporary dance artist, choreographer, and educator based on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples – xʷməθkʷəy̓əm  (Musqueam),  Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations in Vancouver, BC.

Abby’s dance education began at Dance Innovations where she participated in jazz, ballet, and tap exams and trained in various street styles and contemporary. She supplemented her dance training with classes at Free My Muse, where she took dramatic acting and musical theatre. After graduation Abby joined The Source Dance Company in Vancouver, BC under the direction of Joanne Pesusich and later moved to New York City to train as a part of Broadway Dance Center’s International Student Visa Program. Abby continued her contemporary dance training in Vancouver with Modus Operandi, under the direction of Tiffany Tregarthen, David Raymond, and Kate Franklin. A year of her training with Modus was supported by the BC Arts Council’s Individual Scholarship Award. Abby has also trained at Movement Invention Project, CONCRETE Immersive, the Radical System Art Summer Intensive, and Company 605’s Winter Intensive.

As a performer, Abby has danced at the BC Wedding Awards, SHINE!, the 65 Roses Gala for Cystic Fibrosis, Run for the Cure, Dance in Vancouver, Vancouver International Dance Festival, and Merge. She was an apprentice and performer in Heather Laura Gray’s contemporary work ‘The Tunnel’ and during her 4 years with Modus she danced in works by artists such as Out Innerspace, Ella Rothschild, Zahra Shahab, Company 605, Nicolas Ventura, Spenser Theberge, Justine A. Chambers and b. solomon. Recently Abby has performed with Company 605 for Pop Up Dances on Granville Island, for the Firehall Fundraiser Gala and collaborated on other live and short film projects around the city.

Over the years Abby’s choreographic work has been showcased in The Source shows “Fairytales, Fables, & Folklore”, “What Happens in Vegas”, and “If These Walls Could Talk”, the MO Sunset Screening for dances on screen, and the 2022 MO Focus Group showing. She performed a work-in-progress solo “Going Fast Going Slow” at the Garden Gallery - an immersive and site-specific showing which she co-created and co-produced with Kira Radosevic, Emily Clarke and Allie Shiff. Most recently she performed with Nicole Pavia at Chalk it Up! 2024 where they premiered their duet “The Body Shop”.