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Body of Water Project

Creative Exchange By Aimee Dawn Robinson, Wojciech Mochniej, Anne Troake

This year, CanDance Network’s Creative Exchange program brought together three artists from different communities across Canada. In autumn, Wojciech Mochniej (Calgary, Alberta and Lublin, Poland), Aimée Dawn Robinson (Whitehorse, Yukon) and Anne Troake (St. John’s, Newfoundland) collaborated on the Body of Water Project (BOW). The artists first met in Whitehorse in late August, then in Calgary in September. The process to date closed in St. John’s, in October, with an epic roll down an iconic hill.

The three Creative Exchange presenters for BOW were Yukon Arts Centre in Whitehorse, Springboard Performance in Calgary and Neighbourhood Dance Works in St. John’s. Together, with guest artists in each community, they plunged into the waters of our collective identities. Throughout this cross-country process, the BOW artists acknowledge all Nations (acknowledged and unacknowledged, recorded and unrecorded) who care for, and cared for, the land.

A message from the Body of Water artists, Wojciech Mochniej, Aimée Dawn Robinson and Anne Troake:

Thank you to everyone involved in this first and abundant research, performance and documentation phase of the Body of Water Project. We artists have returned to our respective nooks of Canada but water continues to haunt and move us. This video glimpses into the project archive thus far.

To read about the process behind BOW, and to see more photographs from this cross-Canada creative exchange, visit “Posts from the Field #1 - 6” at the Springboard Performance News here.

Stay tuned…

The BOW Artists

Posted December 29, 2015

Caribana is Our Stage

Themes of becoming, shaping from and returning to are central to Caribbean performance arts. As one of these art forms, Carnival is a nuanced performance art practice rooted in the cultural memory of the lives of Caribbean peoples throughout Canada and the diaspora. But whose story is told (or not told) and in what context? The telling or omission of stories can be traced to a lack of understanding of the complexity of the Caribbean and its Carnival – a performance tradition that is more than the mass commodification, sexuality and “loud music” we often associate it with.

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WAREHAUS Dance Collective’s Continuum

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Pure Research Calgary

Calgary AB
November 12-17 novembre 2018

Occurring in both Calgary and Toronto, Nightswimming’s Pure Research series provides studio space, money, and resources to artists investigating provocative theatr