Four dancers move about on a red and silver lit stage covered with many props.

Scores for Improvising with Ancestors

Kevin O’Connor, a multidisciplinary artist whose work is rooted in collaboration, improvisation, community-engaged arts, somatics, ecology, and queer art practices, writes an ode to his “dancestor” Billy and makes suggestions for scores to improvise with one’s ancestors.

June 5, 2023  |  Read Article

Dancing Migrant Farmworkers’ Experiences

An Interview with Heryka Miranda BY EMMALY WIEDERHOLT Heryka Miranda is a dance artist in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada who has been using approaches in expressive arts and dance movement therapy to work with migrant farmworker communities. Alongside Juan Luis Mendoza de la Cruz, she created The Sunflower Man using Indigenous […]

January 7, 2019  |  Read Article

Conversations, Processes and Insistences

An Interview with Tanya Lukin Linklater Tanya Lukin Linklater is an artist who works in performance and is based in northern Ontario, Canada. She has exhibited in museums, videos and installations in Canada and abroad. Her work centers Indigenous knowledge production in and through orality, conversation and embodied practices, including dance. […]

January 3, 2019  |  Read Article