Booklets & Conversations:

Dance Artists & Wordsmiths

Dance West Network offers free PDFs and print-on-demand links to essays and booklets of writings about dance created on the traditional, ancestral and unceded Coast Salish territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations / colonially known as Vancouver.

In particular, the Re-centering/Margins creative residency offers emerging IBPOC dance artists opportunities to invite emerging IBPOC writers to accompany their in-studio processes.

This work has inspired other conversations with wordsmiths who focus on dance and movement.

Working with this form of active and creative documentation since 2019 has opened new paths of exploration, reflection and introspection—for both dancers and writers.

We present them to you to read and share. Thank you for your support !

Essays and Booklets:

Dance Artists & Wordsmiths

Dance of Grief

By Megan Gillis

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Movement + Calligraphy Workshop writing documentation

By Finn Bryant

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(willing to know)

by Chipo Chipaziwa

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Essay: Speaking with the Land / Parler avec la terre

Essay written by Alyssa Amarshi from Vancouver residency with DADAO artists, 2023

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RE-CENTERING / MARGINS, 3rd ANNUAL CREATIVE RESIDENCY 2022-23

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Configurations in Motion: The Commons of Colour October 2022 ESSAY

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ENCOMPASS 2022

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RE-CENTERING / MARGINS, 3rd ANNUAL CREATIVE RESIDENCY 2021-2022

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huulthapi / dancing airwaves 2021-22

Curator and conversation moderator: Tsatassaya White, Snuneymuxw (Nanaimo) & (Opetchesaht) Nuu-chah-nulth Nations. Speakers: Margaret Grenier, Haa’yuups, Andrew Peter, Qwun Qwinuhw, Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde. Edited by Emily Dundas Oke.

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Configurations in Motion, essays 2019-20

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Re-Centering/Margins 2020-21, writings

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Ancillary Residency Project, 2020-21, writings

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"South Asian Dance" - Exploring what it means

Conversation: Brannavy Jeyasundaram, Sujit Vaidya, Ahalya Satkunaratnam. Moderated by Bageshree Vaze

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Dance Artists & Wordsmiths

Conversation: Peter Dickinson, Justine A. Chambers & Ziyian Kwan. Ahalya Satkunaratnam, Aina Yasué. Celestine Aleck, Holly Bright. Moderated by Alyssa Amarshi

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Re-Centering/Margins 2019 writings

photo: Kristy Janvier, photographer Lula - Belle Jedymak

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les petits livres
VERSIONS FRANÇAISES

Parler avec la terre

Alyssa Amarshi
Résidence de trois jours, juin 2023

Écrit par Alyssa Amarshi, coanimatrice de la résidence DADAO 2023, ce magnifique essai reflète ces trois jours à s'investir auprès de chacun des artistes DADAO, à explorer les racines et les origines de ce que l'on appelle Vancouver.
Alyssa nous fait part de ses réflexions sur chaque jour de la résidence, alors que les artistes en apprennent davantage sur les terres sur lesquelles nous nous trouvons et sur la manière dont ces connaissances sont liées à leurs œuvres.

VERSIONS FRANÇAISES
Connections à travers les générations

VERSIONS FRANÇAISES
Configurations en Mouvement

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Artistes en danse et écrivains

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Andrew Peter, Qwun Qwinuhw, leads the Qwuwustsun Tzinquaw Dance group

featured speaker in huulthapi ~ Dancing Airwaves

CONFIGURATIONS IN MOTION

Performance Curation and Communities of Colour

Following the Configurations gatherings in Fall 2020 and October 2022 during the Dance Studies Association in Vancouver, here is a published conversation with Seika Boye and Thomas F. DeFrantz written by Jane Gabriels

https://doi.org/10.3167/turba.2023.020102 ($22 US)

If you are interested in reading this conversation for education or research purposes, please contact jane@dancewest.net