Saturday, September 14th, 2024
At 1:00 pm
The 401 Commons
4th floor, 401 Richmond St. W. suite 452
Register here for free tickets.
Vtape is excited to support Nickeshia Garrick’s research as part of DanceWorks’ Emerging to Mid-Career Fellowship.
Nickeshia Garrick will be in discussion with DanceWorks Co-Executive Artistic Producer and Fellowship Facilitator, Dedra McDermott, to talk about the initial months of the Emerging-to-Mid-Career Fellowship, her archival research interest and recent discoveries supporting her developing research and choreographic project, the ties that Bind us, the ties that Bond us.
Partners: Centre for The Study of Black Canadian Diaspora with support from FADO Performance Art, and ArQuives
ABOUT NICKESHIA’S RESEARCH
Nickeshia is currently exploring the socio-political, cultural and artistic influences on Black Performance Art from the 1960s to now across Turtle Island. the ties that Bind us, the ties that Bond us (working title), aims to excavate the context of the aforementioned influences and the role they potentially play(ed) in shaping Black performance art movements. Through this inquiry, Nickeshia is interested in locating any sites of disruption or a critical challenge of the traditional theatre milieux in Canada beginning in 1960.
ABOUT DANCEWORKS and the FELLOWSHIP
You can learn more about DanceWorks here (danceworks.ca/mission-vision-values) , and find information about the Fellowship including a biography for Nickeshia here (danceworks.ca/fellowship).
