Dance In Vancouver: Field | Practice | Context

Field | Practice | Context

An experimental conversation series facilitated by P. Megan Andrews
#4: practicing performing / performing practice

A special Dance In Vancouver edition reflecting on practice and relationality through the disorientation project.  

With guest conversationalists Angela Joosse, Natalia Esling and other project companions, and inviting participant contributions to the conversation.

How are you practicing? What are the forces and relations that activate your practice? What frames reveal or conceal your work? How are you engaging your ethics of practice with respect to current contexts? How do these shifting contexts both collapse and expand possibility for your work?

As part of her disorientation project, Dance Centre Associate Artist and scholar P. Megan Andrews has been convening this series of experimental conversations to explore these questions in relation to various themes, together with invited guests. Listen and/or contribute as you choose.

 

Angela Joosse, PhD, (she/her) is a media artist and scholar whose work focuses on embodied movement, phenomenology, and cinematic poetics. Her artistic practice includes site-specific installations, digital videos, and experimental films exhibited at venues such as the TIFF Cinematheque, Korean Cinematheque, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Winnipeg Film Group’s Cinematheque, Toronto’s Nuit Blanche, aluCine, Montréal Festival des Films du Monde, and the Dawson City International Short Film Festival.

Natalia Esling, PhD, (she/her) is a researcher, dramaturg, editor, and copy-editor. Since 2013, she has worked as a dramaturg on performance projects in Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver, collaborating with professional dance, music, and visual artists from across Canada. She co-convenes the Canada-based Articulating Artistic Research (AAR) working group. Her research focuses on devised and experimental performance with particular attention to sensory engagement and audience experience. 

Presented as part of the 13th biennial Dance In Vancouver, November 24-28, 2021.