Contributor
Seika Boye is a dance artist, writer and teacher. She has performed and presented work across Canada and was a department editor/writer for The Dance Current (2005-2007) and editorial/archives assistant for Dance Collection Danse Archives and Press/es (2004-2010). She has taught lecture and studio courses at York University and currently teaches Movement for the Actor at The Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, U of T, where she is also a PhD candidate.
Seika Boye's Work
Provocations
What Can You Do?
By Seika BoyeSeika Boye talks about the untold histories of BIPOC dancers in Canada.
Posted August 9, 2018Provocations
By Kate Stashko, Seika Boye, Lee Su-Feh, Angie Cheng, Ravyn Ariah Wngz, Jenn Goodwin, Olivia C. Davies, Vivek Patel, Robyn Breen, Aimee Dawn Robinson, Gerry Morita Volume 21, Issue 3To celebrate our twentieth anniversary, The Dance Current asked dance artists to write about an issue of their choice and offer a call to action. The contributing artists covered everything from consent in contact improvisation, to creativity within a capitalist framework, to dance and motherhood and everything in between.
Short Waves
By Naomi Brand, Catherine Singen, Seika Boye Volume 16, Issue 2Round dances used in Idle No More; Historic costume to be restored; Willy Blok Hanson (1914-2012)
Multiple Perspectives
By Seika Boye, Julie Houle Cezer, Brittany Duggan, Kaija Pepper Canada Dance Festival Canada Dance Festival“Is You Me” (2007) by Benoît Lachambre,“Fragments – Volume 1” (Premiere) by Sylvain Émard Danse, Pre-Professional Culturally Diverse Training Program Showcase, Street/Stage, Q Dance/Quanz Danse and Guillaume Côté/Zdenek Konvalina, Dancemakers, Sinha Danse/Sampradaya, Naomi Stikeman, Robin Poitras, José Navas / Compagnie Flak “S” and “Villanelle”, Noam Gagnon / Compagnie Vision Selective “The Vision Impure”, Amber Funk/the response. “Status Quo”, “Cabinet”, “Valentina”, Ipsita Nova Dance Projects, Paul-André Fortier, Daniel Mroz, Les Ateliers du Corps, Coyote Arts Percussive Performance Association, Byron Chief Moon and COBA (Collective Of Black Artists) at the 2010 Canada Dance Festival.
Posted June 28, 2010
First Last Thoughts
On Michael Jackson and Pina Bausch By Seika BoyeWhen pop icon Michael Jackson and German choreographer Pina Bausch died within five days of one another in late June, my Facebook homepage was suddenly filled with the voices of dancers.
Posted August 21, 2009Dance In Iran
Tracing the Elusory Thread By Seika Boye Volume 12, Issue 4With desires to westernize and modernize Iran in the early to mid-twentieth century, the secular governments supported both western ballet and traditional Iranian dance companies. Following the Revolution of 1979 that brought the country under conservative Islamic law, public dance performance of all kinds were effectively banned. Today, dance in Iran continues its complex development.
