Dance In Vancouver: Re-Defining Localness

RE-DEFINING LOCALNESS

With Masako Masashita (IT) and Roberto Cassarotto (IT), Amaara Raheem (AUS), Gareth Hart (AUS), Dayna Szyndrowski (VAN), Lindsay Delaronde (VAN), facilitated by Norman Armour.  

What does it mean for dance artists to be IN a place when they are not OF that place, and when the dancing body is never of only one place? What does it mean to work in-situ, site-responsively and contextually? What does it mean, for a place, to welcome, to host, to make present (without necessarily presenting) artists and their bodies of thought?

Also in this conversation series:

Presenting Dance Regionally 

Asian Artists’ Ecologies – Shared Stories/Tokenising Contexts 

These conversations have been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body and is proudly supported by the Consulate General of Canada Sydney.

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