Select Artistic Works
2019-21 Gitigaan: Dances for Gardens
William Kingfisher’s Gitigaan/Enewendewin project and Artspace’s InSites Festival
2021 (forthcoming) Arriving Again with Wes Ryan, Erring 2, Public Energy
2020 (forthcoming) The Hidden Anatomy, improvisational dancer, Artspace
2020 Necessary Gestures Movement film with Cara Mumford, William Kingfisher, Bennett Bedoukian, Kerry Beebee
2019 Jiimaan Alternating Currents
2019-20 Gitigaan: Dances for Gardens
Artspace InSites Festival
2019 Enewendewin
Exhibition, Artspace, curated by William Kingfisher with Ron Benner, Anong Beam, and Lisa Myers. Sound and space installation with poplar boughs and underground and underwater sounds animated through moment
2019 Dancer, with Cara Mumford, movement explorations around American Indian Sign Language as choreography for film, dramaturgy by Patti Shaughnessy, Alternating Currents
2019-2021 Jimaan
How to approach a Canoe dance exploration series
2019 Red Card Dance/Film Research Layer
Dancer/dramaturgical collaborator for Cara Mumford
2019 Traplines
Small Dance for Small Spaces Festival
2018 I’m Sorry About What Happened at the Mall
Duet with soprano; Peterborough Dance Works and Peterborough ArtsWeek
2018 Cover Art: These Trees Performance Traces
Unsettling Activisms, Women’s Press
2018 Dumoine River Art for Wilderness Residency
CPAWS-OV wilderness retreat artist on last undamped tributary of the Ottawa River
2018 Walking Our Way Here
Coordinator of ambulatory performances and discussion as a way of orienting in Kingston’s Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee territories
Canadian Association for Theatre Research Conference
2018 Following Nan to the Kiji Sibi Part II
Morning tea, heaps of cedar and collective performance installation to map home in the mess of the family archive and its reflection of Indigenous/settler relations
The Theatre on King
2018 Listening to Kashtin with my Mom
Cabaret act, reclamation of my right to speak Anishinaabemowin
Gatheringsbook launch, Imperial Pub, Toronto
2017 Inside
Choreographer and devising cast in filmmaker Shane Day’s surrealist short
2017 Alternating Currents Program Artist
Selected to workshop and produce new play, Wolfboy, with dramaturge Kate Story in Public Energy’s Alternating Currents Dramaturgy Residency Program
2017 Senses in Tandem Performance Workshop
Workshop collaborator for student project on blind sensory performance
2016 Tracing Nan: A Trans-Generational Map Home
Durational performance and visual installation of my biskabiyaang
American Society for Theatre Research
2015 Espionage/Clairvoyance: Traipsing the Memories of Transformative Teenage Witnessing
Site Specific Performance/Installation forperformance panel “Capital Wayfaring: Peripatetic Explorations”
Canadian Association for Theatre Research Conference
A solo performance; audience ritual; mad-hatter’s tea party revisiting a photograph I took of homeless youth when I was 14. Photos, fortunes for the world, demitasses and a good amount of duct tape were left behind.
2014 This is My Body in Absentia
A film, food and essay-installation on the dramaturgy of “presence” in the Eucharistic sacrament and Good Dirt, choreography for a work-in-progress dance piece presentation on Antigone and affirmation
“Breaking the Body’s Boundaries” Festival of Original Theatre, University of Toronto
2014 Good Dirt, Public Energy’s Erring on the Mount
Choreographer, set and lighting designer and installation artist for Antigonedance work in arts festival in the abandoned convent of the Sisters of Saint Joseph, Peterborough ON
2013 Death Clowns in Guantanamo Bay, Glen Morris Theatre
Set Designer
2012 Performance Based Research Projects
The Impossible Augustine, a movement and material exploration into the impossibility of staging someone else’s cry and Pigeon, a dance with a typewriter choreographed from collected unsent letters
2012 The Dramaturgy of Small
Visual Practice Research Project/Dramarurgical Caesbook on the theatre of “small,” including tiny mail, handmade books, photography of small in theses and a filmed attempt to fit oneself into a teapot
2012 Dick Higgin’sDanger Music #17 with Didier Morelli for The Future of Cage: Credo
A performance with floor writing, and buckets of water in the dark on what it means to Scream!Scream!Scream!Scream!Scream!
2012 Beckett’s Quad I & II
Performer, Faculty of Music
2012 People We’ll Never Meet, Robert Gill Theatre
A choreographic investigation into the alterity of the stranger. Four pieces. One hour. Lobby installation where audience members were invited to send mail to strangers
2012 Happy Valentine’s Day Markham St
Yarn and fence weaving installation for a sad patch of concrete, Toronto ON
2011 Going Home, Locations between Toronto and Northern Ontario
Winter landscape “dreamcatcher” installation performance for film with poet Simon Borer (Traplines)
2007-2012 Outside Eye and Movement Dramaturgy
Ars Mechanica’s Show and Tell Alexander Bell(Robert Gill Theatre,Crisis Art Festival in Arezzo, Italy 2012 and Summerworks 2013); Toronto Theatre Laboratory’sThe Musician; Fleshy Thud’s Protest Movement andDon’t Belong; Tanya Elchuck’s Heart Strings, (Public Energy’sEmergency Festival; then Winnipeg, Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto Fringe Festivals in 2010)
2012 Just Dance J/F with Kaeja d’Dance
2005-2013 Emergency Festivals #12- 17, Public Energy
Fifteen Minute Pieces:Of Mothers, Lions and the Desert Wild (William Blake); Sub- Urban(Wim Wenders); Nabokov’s Butterflies(Vladimir Nabokov); Pigeon(W.G. Sebald); Waking Without You(Roland Barthes); Je Vous Salue(Jean-Luc Godard); and TOPIA Fragment(with Slam Poet Wes Ryan)
2010 Three Birds, Artsweek Peterborough
Abstract mixed media renderings of three films about birds on outer wall of Have You Seen video store
2008-2010 Fleshy Thud Dance Performances
A Series of Duets: Reap What You Sow; Cleaning The Mind; Original Plastic film collaboration “End of the World;” and four-person dance Oskorei
Gordon Best Theatre and Market Hall, Peterborough ON
- Dance Like No One’s Watching, ArtsWeek and StandUp Dance/Meagan O’Shea
Lead/Primary dancer in movement interventions on buses, in malls, and on Hunter St.
2006-9 Artsweek Peterborough, Site-specific Outdoor Locations
Dance pieces on the topics of strangers and myth (From Water), a death at sea and haunting memory (In the Parlour), and visceral relation to gutters and alleys (Suspend)
2007 Don’t Worry I’ll Catch You
Nearly invisible dream catcher installation in Millennium Park, Peterborough ON
2006 ARCFest, Toronto Art for Real Change Festival
Exhibition of street solo-performance document, Kiss Me Right Herealongside multi-media book-work entitled The Love Revolutionand reading space installation
Lennox Gallery, Toronto ON
2006 These Trees
Honours Thesis Visual Art and Performance Exhibit
Clarington Visual Arts Centre ON
2005 Tough Drum Magazine Art Show
Conté on mylar collaboration with musician Pablo Woman
Cossar’s Art Centre, Peterborough ON
Images of Jenn Cole’s Work: Cole Performance Portfolio
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