Meryem Alaoui is a Toronto-based dancer and choreographer from Morocco. Founder and artistic director of Jasad Dance Projects, her work is at the intersection of somatic research using movement and voice, and the exploration of contemporaneity through the reclamation of embodied performance practices, dances and knowledge from her culture as a Moroccan diasporic dance artist.
As a dancer, she has collaborated with choreographers Amanda Acorn, Peggy Baker, Antony Hamilton (with the company Dancemakers), Karen Kaeja and Julia Male among others. Her most recent choreographic works have been presented in Tangente in Montreal and at the Théâtre National Mohammed V in Morocco. She is a certified Body-Mind Centering® Somatic Movement Educator and she enjoys facilitating movement explorations for dancers in professional settings and in community and arts-education contexts, such as with Toronto Dance Theatre, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Haneen Women Choir and The Arab Community Centre of Toronto.
Program
Preview: With sky, sunlight, clouds, wind. With ground, grass, trees, songbirds. (We are held)
With sky, sunlight, clouds, wind. With ground, grass, trees, songbirds. (We are held) is a series of site-specific open rehearsals by Tanya Lukin Linklater taking place over four afternoons in High Park leading up to and during the opening of the 2024 Toronto Biennial of Art. Building upon her 2023 project presented with TBA, The […]
September 19, September 20
1:00pm – 4:00pm
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Program
With sky, sunlight, clouds, wind. With ground, grass, trees, songbirds. (We are held)
With sky, sunlight, clouds, wind. With ground, grass, trees, songbirds. (We are held) is a series of site-specific open rehearsals by Tanya Lukin Linklater taking place over four afternoons in High Park leading up to and during the opening of the 2024 Toronto Biennial of Art. Building upon her 2023 project presented with TBA, The […]
September 21, September 22
1:00pm – 4:00pm
Partners