Dancing Life Stories/Dancing Biographies/Forming the WE

With the DANC 202 Cohort: Charlotte Bisson, Nathaniel Cancela Edsell, Florence Cross, Homeyra Esmaeilzadeh, Leonardo Giraldo Rodriguez, Anaïs Girard, Elle Golfinopoulos, Sophie Groleau-Rouleau, Nasiriyah Hamilton, Joselande Josue, Adaline Kuranko, Camille Moon, Fredlyne Pierre, Pooya Ratnam, Amy Staples, Kaiya Thomas-Bynoe, and Cameron Weaver.

Join us for an afternoon of dance as students from the Department of Contemporary Dance bring embodied auto-biographical narratives to the Acts of Listening Lab. Such storytelling in motion – based on life history interviews that students conducted with one of their peers – constitutes what Christine Thurner once called “emphatically fragile, deliberately contingent narrative acts.” These gestural narratives break free of the frame of linear, literary (auto)biography. Seen in relation to one another they form a complex and rich society.

This event is based on students’ coursework in the Department of Contemporary Dance, who, under the guidance of Professor Lília Mestre, are exploring the possibilities of danced life narration, this time in a collective improvisation setting.

Please note that the event will take place in the Dance Studio (MB-7.265) of the Department of Contemporary Dance, 1600 Blvd. De Maisonneuve Ouest.

REGISTRATION

Please note that all COHDS events are free and open to all, but you need to register!

Register here.

For any questions, please contact cohds.chorn@concordia.ca

LOCATION

In-person in the Dance Studio (MB-7.265) of the Department of Contemporary Dance, 1600 Blvd. De Maisonneuve Ouest.

COHDS/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territory, in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal.