Seika Boye (b. 1975, Hamilton; she/her) is a writer, scholar, educator, and artist whose practices revolve around dance, movement, archives and museums, and embodied pedagogies. She is an Assistant Professor in the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Toronto.
Seika has worked as a modern/postmodern dance artist; an archives and publishing assistant; and dance writer and editor for various publications. She continues to work as a curator, dramaturg, and consultant.
Dedicated to public scholarship, Seika curated the award-winning archival exhibition It’s About Time: Dancing Black in Canada 1900-1970 and Now. She is a Co-Investigator/Co-Director of Gatherings: Oral and Archival Histories of Performance (SSHRC).
Program
One Hundred More (featuring a talkback moderated by Seika Boye)
One Hundred More is a performance urgently informed by our current socio-political climate which has produced an ever-greater groundswell of bodies resisting, moving in collective anger, revolt and counter-resistance, captured and replayed in an endless torrent of images. Centred on an iconic gesture of resistance, the work is an incremental choreography of personal physical strategies […]
November 29
8:00pm – 9:30pm
