Writings:
Dance Artists
& Wordsmiths
Dance West Network offers free PDFs and print-on-demand links to essays and booklets of writings about dance, in addition to our published book, Conversations and Essays on Dance in BC.
All of this work is 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, 2024-current
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2026, RevRev Burlesque
by Hailey Christie-Hoyle
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2025, Perceivable Stillness: The Dynamic Community of Community Moves - Prince George
By Lisa Dickson
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2024, The House Again Incarnate, Residency Alumni - Burnaby Art Gallery
Reflective essay by Charlie Colbourne
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2024, Movement + Calligraphy Workshop - Salt Spring Island
By Adele Cecotti
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2024, Dance of Grief: Simran Sachar, Sophia Sosa with Sevrin Emnacen-Boyd - Revelstoke
By Megan Gillis
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2024, Movement + Calligraphy Workshop - Galiano Island
By Finn Bryant
Booklets, also included in: Conversations and Essays on Dance in BC
courtes reflections
VERSIONS FRANÇAISES
Andrew Peter, Qwun Qwinuhw, leads the Qwuwustsun Tzinquaw Dance group
featured speaker in huulthapi ~ Dancing Airwaves
Performance Curation
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Vancouver launch, January 2019
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Vancouver launch, January 2019
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Performance Curation, Dec 2019
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Configurations in Motion: performance curation and communities of colour, 4th iteration
Editors: Natalie Tin Yin Gan & Emily Dundas Oke
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Conversation: Seika Boye and Thomas F. DeFrantz,
written by Dr. Jane Gabriels
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Festival Curation, June 2019 with Olivia C. Davies, Heather Lamoureux, Thomas Benjamin Snapp Pryor
