Colleen Quigley
Director
Colleen Quigley is an Archivist (Performing Arts Collection) and Head of Archives and Special Collections at Memorial University of Newfoundland’s Queen Elizabeth II Library. Colleen holds a Masters of Information from the University of Toronto; a BFA in Dance from York University and an English major from Memorial. She has worked as a performer, dance instructor and choreographer in St. John’s, Toronto, and Maine (USA), as well as in Amsterdam and Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Prior to her return to Newfoundland in 2010, Colleen was the first institutional archivist at Canada’s National Ballet School. Her research interests include performing arts and the relationship with memory, meaning and myth-making and concepts of individual and cultural identity and representation. She is an active member of SIBMAS; Canadian Society for Dance Studies; Association of Newfoundland & Labrador Archives; DanceNL; Newfoundland and Labrador Library Association; Performance Studies International; International Council of Traditional Music; as well as the Association of Canadian Archivists and Society of American Archivists. (Photo credit: Scott Campbell)
