the Canada Council for the Arts. In 2009, she was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec. On March 3, 2011, Gillis was named a 2011 laureate of the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards for Lifetime Artistic Achievement. In May 2011, she received the Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award from the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award. In 2013, Gillis was promoted from her 1987 Order of Canada and appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada. This honour recognizes a lifetime of achievement and merit of a high degree, especially in service to Canada or to humanity at large. See also List of choreographers List of dancers List of people from Montreal References External links Official website Margie Gillis Dance Foundation fonds (R13347) at Library and Archives Canada 1953 births 20th-century Canadian dancers 21st-century Canadian dancers Anglophone Quebec people Canadian choreographers Canadian female dancers Canadian founders Knights of the National Order of Quebec Living people Officers of the Order of Canada Modern dancers Entertainers from Montreal 20th-century Canadian women Canadian women choreographers