Abigail Sebaly

Abigail Sebaly is currently pursuing a dual Master of Archival Studies and Master of Library and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her extensive professional background in the arts began as a dancer. She served as an administrative assistant to the choreographer Merce Cunningham and the director of special projects for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in New York. More recently she spent 3 years cataloguing and undertaking collections research on the Walker Art Center’s Merce Cunningham Dance Company Collection of over 4000 sets and costumes. In Canada, she has performed archival work for Jennifer Mascall, the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery on the UBC campus, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity’s archives, where she processed the 1982 Canadian Everest Expedition Collection

She holds an M.A. in the Humanities from the University of Chicago, a Graduate Certificate in Performance Curation from the Institute for Curatorial Practice at Wesleyan University, and a B.A. in English and B.F.A. in Dance from the University of Michigan. She also received a Fulbright scholarship from the U.S. State Department to spend a year in Melbourne, Australia studying performing arts festivals.

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