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Jillian Groening is a dance artist, writer and administrator of mixed settler descent living on Treaty One Territory. Their writing has been published by The Dance Current, Dance International and The Journal for Curatorial Studies. They hold a BA(Hons) in dance from the School of Contemporary Dancers in affiliation with the University of Winnipeg and a masters in theatre and performance studies from York University (Toronto), where their SSHRC-funded research considers the artist’s book as site(s) of performance.
Jillian Groening's Work
Aching Distances
Ali Robson’s performance response to Dancing with Tantalus in review By Jillian GroeningAli Robson’s performance response to the visual art exhibition Dancing with Tantalus considers what is cultivated through the dynamic proximities of bodies, surfaces and art objects in virtual space.
Posted March 24, 2021
The Chaos of Possibility
Kevin Jesuino explores how Queerness, liveness and failure might provide insight into reinvention, approximately one year after the onset of COVID-19 By Jillian GroeningJesuino examines Queerness, liveness and failure in his work, Cruising at 30 Kilometers a Second and Attempting Not To Crash. The work asks what might emerge if we embrace failure and collapse.
Posted February 11, 2021
Embodied Geographies
Review of Joshua Whitehead’s Making Love With the Land By Jillian GroeningMaking Love With the Land is a welcome moment of grounding within the dizzying cacophony of virtual performance events. While digital spaces course with emergent methods through which to experience temporal arts practices, the conversational sequencing of Making Love With the Land evokes a rhythmic embrace that is further supported by the warm timbre of Joshua Whitehead’s voice.
Posted December 22, 2020The Chaos of Possibility
By Jillian Groening Volume 24, Issue 1Kevin Jesuino explores how Queerness, liveness and failure might provide insight into reinvention, approximately one year after the onset of COVID-19
On the Ground
Explorations in the Environment
By Jillian GroeningLindsay Dobbin, Heather Lamoureux and Ralph Escamillan discuss their complex and ever-evolving experiences with ecojustice, sustainable practices and environmental connectivity.
Posted October 29, 2020Movers
Navigating the connections between hip hop and powwow By Jillian Groening Volume 23, Issue 5Matthew “Creeasian” Wood
From Our Archives
A Second Homecoming for Chan Hon Goh By Jillian Groening Volume 22, Issue 4Director of Goh Ballet Academy
All Hail the Queen
By Jillian Groening Volume 22, Issue 3Fly Lady Di recounts her reign from dancing the Macarena to becoming a solo artist.
A Welcome Resistance
For the first time in the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity’s eighty-five-year history, Indigenous Arts will be programmed continuously throughout the calendar year.
Posted February 27, 2019
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