Conversations and Essays on Dance
in British Columbia
A Dance West Network Anthology
Edited by Jane Gabriels & Peter Dickinson
Dance West Network (DWN) proudly marks its 20th anniversary, celebrating two decades of connecting artists and communities around their mutual love of dance. Since its founding, DWN has supported and created multiple artist-driven connections across BC communities and cultivating community and presenter partnerships to support dance across so-called British Columbia and beyond.
To commemorate this milestone, DWN is thrilled to announce the publication of Conversations and Essays on Dance in British Columbia: A Dance West Network Anthology, published by Dance Collection Danse, the premiere dance publisher in Canada, in partnership with Simon Fraser University. This anthology features essays and reflections from artists who have shaped DWN’s legacy and centres Indigenous, racialized, and queer dance artists whose work has often gone unrecognized in mainstream platforms. Featuring a who’s who of dance in Vancouver with established and up-and-coming dance artists and writers like: Margaret Grenier, Shion Skye Carter, and Simran Sachar, to name a few, this book also offers an incredible triptych of essays created with the participation of six Indigenous artists based on Coast Salish lands.
To celebrate our 20th Anniversary and place your book order for Conversations and Essays on Dance in British Columbia: A Dance West Network Anthology,
please visit: https://dcd.ca/product/conversations/
Description:
What—and who—do we talk about when we talk about dance in so called British Columbia? How can writing and conversation amplify our knowledge of the diverse repertoire of movement practices on Indigenous lands in this province? How does dance, as a mode of embodied knowledge, provide different perspectives on the politics of place, culture and community, sovereignty and education? These questions are at the heart of this collection, which emerges from the work of Dance West Network over the past seven years to add to the critical and community discourses on dance made by and for Indigenous, Black, and People of Colour (IBPOC) artists and audiences in various pockets of British Columbia. The writings gathered here centre the voices of dance artists and writers in the province—and occasionally beyond—by recentring conversations about their work, the questions about who and what the work is for, and the thinking of readers asking similar questions.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to our book raffle.
We're happy to announce the winner: SOPHIE BARBARICS
To learn more about Sophie, click here for a recent article in ARTICULATE.
Congratulations Sophie!
