Contributor
Lee Slinger, Ph.D., is a Toronto-based researcher, teacher and writer. Her academic interests are in how people use the past to construct identities in the present and ideas of ownership about that knowledge. Her award-nominated dissertation examined the memory of the Tudor era in eighteenth-century Britain. Before graduate studies, she worked in sponsorships at a Québec television station. More recently, she has taught art history and writing skills at OCAD University and Ryerson University and done free-lance writing and copy editing. Her love of dance has always been a part of her life. Since attending L’École supérieure de ballet du Québec in Montréal, she has participated in a variety of recreational classes, studied dance at York and become a devoted audience member. She has been editor at The Dance Current since 2015.
Lee Slinger's Work
Collective Copyright
Navigating authorship within contemporary dance By Lee SlingerAs dance artists navigate projects and performances, they encounter differing ideas of authorship. The evolving relationship between artists and digital media sharing have also shaped how these concepts are understood. Slinger spoke with several contemporary dance artists about their understandings of ownership, authorship and the role of intellectual property in their art-making processes. She also weighs in with Carys Craig, a scholar of intellectual property, who argues that the legal system imposes binaries, such as choreographer/performer or work/performance, on creative work that do not speak to how dance is created, performed and shared.
Posted November 30, 2018Collective Copyright
By Lee Slinger Volume 21, Issue 5Dance has a long and tenuous relationship with ideas of intellectual ownership that is becoming even more complex as digital media is incorporated into artistic practice. How are contemporary dance artists navigating their understandings of ownership, authorship and the role of intellectual property in their art-making processes?
On the Ground
Rainy Days
By Lee SlingerSaving money and thinking about retirement for dance artists
Posted April 17, 2017
Projet Héritage / Legacy Project: Episode 1
The Margie Gillis Foundation’s Legacy Project / Project Héritage shares the iconic Canadian dancer’s knowledge and philosophy with a new generation of artists.
Posted March 6, 2017Backstage
Illumination By Lee Slinger Volume 20, Issue 2Paraskevas Terezakis of Kinesis Dance somatheatro on lighting the way forward after thirty years
Influences
Rainy Days By Lee Slinger Volume 20, Issue 2Saving money and thinking about retirement for dance artists
Miguel Gutierrez “Age & Beauty Part 1” Research in 2014
American artist Miguel Gutierrez, who will be teaching at the New Aesthetics Performance Intensive in Vancouver in the summer of 2017, discusses and presents his process for Age & Beauty Part 1: Mid-Career Artist/Suicide Note or &:-/, the first part of a trilogy.
Posted February 7, 2017
