Booklets & Conversations:
Dance Artists & Wordsmiths
Dance West Network offers a series of booklets with writings about dance created on the traditional, ancestral and unceded Coast Salish territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations / colonially known as Vancouver.
The Re-centering/Margins creative residency offers emerging dance artists of colour opportunities to invite emerging writers of colour to accompany their in-studio processes.
This work has inspired other conversations with wordsmiths who focus on dance and movement.
Working with this form of active and creative documentation has opened new paths of exploration, reflection and introspection—for both dancers and writers.
Essay Booklets:
Dance Artists & Wordsmiths
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Speaking with the Land / Parler avec la terre
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RE-CENTERING / MARGINS, 3rd ANNUAL CREATIVE RESIDENCY 2022-23
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Configurations in Motion: The Commons of Colour October 2022 ESSAY
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ENCOMPASS 2022
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RE-CENTERING / MARGINS, 3rd ANNUAL CREATIVE RESIDENCY 2021-2022
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huulthapi / dancing airwaves 2021-22
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Configurations in Motion, essays 2019-20
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Re-Centering/Margins 2020-21, writings
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Ancillary Residency Project, 2020-21, writings
In Conversation:
Dance Artists & Wordsmiths
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Dance Artists & Wordsmiths
Peter Dickinson, Justine A. Chambers & Ziyian Kwan
Ahalya Satkunaratnam, Aina Yasué
Celestine Aleck, Holly Bright
Moderated by Alyssa Amarshi
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"South Asian Dance" - Exploring what it means
A discussion and presentation with:
Brannavy Jeyasundaram
Sujit Vaidya
Ahalya Satkunaratnam
Moderated by Bageshree Vaze
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huulthapi ~ Dancing Airwaves
Speakers: Margaret Grenier, Haa’yuups, Andrew Peter, Qwun Qwinuhw, Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde.
Tsatassaya White, Curator and Conversation Moderator, Snuneymuxw (Nanaimo) & (Opetchesaht) Nuu-chah-nulth Nations.
Andrew Peter, Qwun Qwinuhw, leads the Qwuwustsun Tzinquaw Dance group
featured speaker in huulthapi ~ Dancing Airwaves
CONFIGURATIONS IN MOTION
Performance Curation and Communities of Colour
Following the Configurations gatherings in Fall 2020 and October 2022 during the Dance Studies Association in Vancouver, here is a published conversation with Seika Boye and Thomas F. DeFrantz written by Jane Gabriels
https://doi.org/10.3167/turba.2023.020102 ($22 US)
If you are interested in reading this conversation for education or research purposes, please contact jane@dancewest.net
