Nyda Kwasowsky is a multi-disciplinary artist and emerging choreographer of Indo-Caribbean, British and Ukrainian ancestry. She orients towards abolitionist approaches rooted in experimentation, improvisation and community. Liberatory practices motivate her creative senses beyond representation and strive for practices that are transformative and embodied, without erasing her identity both present, past and future.
Her work centers around grief, hybridity and longing in racialized diasporic experience. Studied in somatics and trauma informed practices, a practitioner in TCM cupping and Auricular Acupuncture and training in Harm Reduction, Restorative Justice, Polyvagal Certified, craftworks, Earthwork and studying as a Birth Doula. Her most recent explorations look at the intersections of cultural materiality and the moving dancing performing body.
She has worked with a versatile range of dance companies and projects for over 10 years. Presenting her solo work locally, nationally and internationally and attending a multitude of residencies throughout her artistic career in continuing to connect and develop through exchange.
Program
Feeling Her Way: Dancer Response
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. […]
October 2, November 6, December 4, February 5, March 5
7:00pm – 7:30pm
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