The series Feeling Her Way: Dancer Response begins on November 6, 2024.
On each of the First Wednesday Night Free programs for the duration of the exhibition Sonia Boyce: Feeling Her Way, an invited dance artist will perform in the gallery, prompted by the sounds and visual elements of Boyce’s installation.
Performances are improvised and approximately 30 minutes in duration.
Register through the Art Gallery of Ontario.
This program is a part of Your Timing is Perfect: Moments and Movements of Inquiry, a performance series in which artists investigate the body as a living archive, exploring its extraordinary strength and resilience, as well as its tenderness, vulnerability, and limitations.
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This program is presented in partnership with the Art Gallery of Ontario during the exhibition of Sonia Boyce: Feeling Her Way. The Canadian presentation of Sonia Boyce: Feeling Her Way is initiated and organized by the PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art.
February 5
7:00pm – 7:30pm
This venue is wheelchair accessible.
Artist Bio
Andrea Nann
Andrea Nann/Dreamwalker (she/her) dances to reach across distance and to experience herself and others in celebration of possibility, plurality, imagination, originality, and belonging. She is a contemporary dance artist, deep listener, founding artist of Dreamwalker Dance Company, and founder/co-creator of Conscious Bodies, an embodied community practice. Andrea is graduate of York University’s Department of Fine Arts and has contributed to the creation of new works by over 70 dance and theatre creators from across Turtle Island. She danced with Danny Grossman Dance Company for 15 years and has been recognized for outstanding choreography, performance, contributions to the performing arts sector and for her work in community actioning. For Andrea, dance and embodiment can shift attitudes and ways of being, tuning us into what makes each of us distinct, to what we share, and ultimately how we can live together in wonderment and peace.
Artist Bio
Jennifer Dahl
Jennifer Dahl is a contemporary dance/theatre artist, post-rehabilitation movement specialist and fascial movement facilitator and educator.
She began her dance/movement training in Saskatchewan and continued in Montreal and New York City (Alvin Ailey American Dance Centre) before graduating from The School of the Toronto Dance Theatre in 1994. Since then, Jennifer has performed across Canada and Europe for over 25 years. She has worked/collaborated with a multitude of established and emerging creators in both dance and theatre including: Volcano Theatre (The 4 Horseman Project), Susanna Fournier (4 Sisters-Empire Trilogy) Citadel and Co. (Grasslands, Hymn to The Universe featuring the Sun Ra Arkestra), playwright Jordan Tannahill (Declarations), and The Dietrich Group (This is a Costume Drama, FIELDWORK) in pieces created for the stage, film, and site specific locations.
Jennifer teaches specialized conditioning and movement related courses throughout North America, Europe and Asia. She holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Toronto.