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Presence introduces us to an impossible image – a woman, seemingly frozen in a glacier, but still alive and moving. She has six avatars in the real world trying to remember how she/they got there. All seven are awakening from their own time capsule - becoming enlightened, so to speak.

Text is by Marcia Bjornerud from her book Timefulness, 2018: Narrator/Dancer Diane Daniel with videography by Henry Daniel

November 2021

Surrey Art Gallery - Nov. 6, 2021 A New Normal: Digital Media Arts Symposium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCB6m40jniw

McMaster Hamilton Nov. 20, 2021 NeuroMusic Keynote Lecture and Dance Performance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDQOGc73Zss&t=113s

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbYg8uO1qilRN0fKbHMzykLezgargM4Us&si=KyAMRtLHlV_k5uwN

SFU Vancouver -Nov. 17-20, 2021 PPE Waves: New Normal? – THE TRAILER AND MORE

https://www.sfu.ca/sca/events---news/events/ppe-waves--a-new-normal-.html

Performance Talks/Artistic Conversations

Knowing in Performing – Ringvorlesungen Artistic Research an der mdw

Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien/University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna

WEB LINK: The Human Body Moving as Analogy for Thought Unfolding

Die neue Vorlesungsreihe "Knowing in Performing" an der mdw präsentiert und befragt die transdisziplinären Dynamiken von "Artistic Research" mit einem speziellen Fokus auf Musik und darstellende Kunst.

Semesterprogramm 2019/20

  1. April 2020 – Henry Daniel: The Human Body Moving as Analogy for Thought Unfolding

Der Vortrag von Henry Daniel bietet eine andere Art des Denkens über Performance-as-Research, künstlerische Forschung oder Research-Creation. Er bezieht sich auch auf Daniels aktuelles Forschungsprojekt "Contemporary Nomads" als eine praktische Art und Weise des Umgangs mit einer zutiefst philosophischen Frage.

PreLecture-Text von Henry Daniel Den Abstract des Vortrags finden Sie auf der Website der mdw. Feedback an Henry Daniel kann gern an knowinginperforming@mdw.ac.at geschickt werden.

nómadas

A live performance and audio/video installation, nómadas takes it inspiration from the current large-scale movements of bodies across international spaces as a type of chaotic transnational choreography that speaks to what cultural theorist Stuart Hall calls, a "contemporary travelling, voyaging and return as fate, as destiny […] as the prototype of the modern or postmodern New World nomad, continually moving between centre and periphery” (Hall in Rutherford, J. 234:1990).

nómadas is part of the larger, long term Contemporary Nomads research project, which explores the "deep fragmentation which exists between communities within as well as outside national borders, between nationalized and personalized bodies, and between social and political institutions and the ordinary people they were meant to serve." (Daniel, 2017).

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Benjamin Meaker Fellowship Presentations...

Kafka’s Report….reproduced, & other works

16 - 17 September 2016, 8:00pm
Studio D, Simon Fraser University, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings St., Vancouver, BC.
$7 Student/Senior // $10 SFU Staff/Faculty // $15 General

Kafka's Report...reproduced

Kafka’s Report…reproduced is based on Franz Kafka’s “A Report to an Academy” (Ein Bericht für eine Akademie), and utilizes the original German text as well as Marc Diamond’s English adaptation. Kafka’s report is about an ape that is captured by a hunting party somewhere in Africa and brought to Europe. After what appears to be a successful transformation to human-likeness, the ape/human is called to a defense of his accomplishments by a scientific committee. Daniel’s choreography builds on Kafka’s mischievous commentary on the state of knowledge by adding another layer to the story. This work is danced en pointe.

  • Choreography by Henry Daniel

  • Music by Martin Gotfrit

  • Original German text spoken by Claudia Hein.

  • English Adaptation by Marc Diamond

  • Performances by Marc Arboleda, Chelsea DesLauriers, Megan Morris, Nyssa Song, and Annabelle Wong

  • Lighting Design and Technical Direction by Kyla Gardiner

The Report (2011) is another version of this work.

Tango la femme

Tango la femme is based on a selection of music by Argentinian composer and bandoneon player Astor Piazzolla. It is made for and danced completely by four women.

  • Muerte del Ángel Dancers: Megan Morrison, Nyssa Song, Annabelle Wong

  • Music: Astor Piazzolla

  • Choreography: Marla Eist

  • Buenos Aires Hora Cero Dancer: Chelsea DesLauriers

  • Milonga En Re Dancer: Megan Morrison

  • Oblivion Dancers: Megan Morrison, Nyssa Song, Annabelle Wong, Chelsea DesLauriers

  • Music: Astor Piazzolla

  • Choreography: Henry Daniel

  • Images: Henry Daniel

  • Costumes: Karen DesLauriers

  • Lighting Design & Technical Direction: Kyla Gardiner

Presented by the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University
Funded by a SSHRC Small Institutional Grant 2016-2017

Source: https://www.facebook.com/events/1025098917...

The Other "D"

...at once an advocacy and a gesture towards strengthening scholarly communities and broadening interaction between dance, drama, theatre, performance studies and beyond.

A two-day symposium. January 22-23, 2016, Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Toronto.

"Practices of representation always implicate the positions from which we speak or write – the positions of enunciation. What recent theories of enunciation suggest is that, though we speak, so to say ‘in our own name’, of ourselves and from our own experience, nevertheless who speaks, and the subject who is spoken of, are never identical, never exactly in the same place. Identity is not as transparent or unproblematic as we think. Perhaps instead of thinking of identity as an already accomplished fact, which the new cultural practices represent, we should think, instead, of identity as a ‘production’, which is never complete, always in process, and always constituted within, not outside, representation. This view problematises the very authority and authenticity to which the term, ‘cultural identity’, lays claim".

Hall S. in Rutherford, J (222:1990).

Stuart Hall was a Jamaican-born cultural theorist and sociologist and one of the founders of Cultural Studies and the "New Left Review" in Britain. He left a lasting international legacy on discourses on culture, race, identity and media that is particularly resonant at this moment in time.

John Akomfrah is a Ghanaian-born British writer, director and filmmaker whose body of work speaks to many of the themes that Stuart addressed.

Dr. Daniel McNeil, Professor of History, Migration and Diaspora Studies at Carleton University, will introduce John Akomfrah’s 2013 film The Stuart Hall Project and take part in a Q&A with artists, activists and academics inspired by Hall's commitment to creative, explorative and provocative intellectual work. Professor McNeil will also engage with SFU faculty and graduate students with regards to The Unfinished Conversation, a three-screen installation directed by Akomfrah, and the multiple ways in which Hall has inspired intellectuals inside and outside of academia to do some fresh thinking about time, space and belonging.

FREE EVENTS:

October 14, 12:15-2:00pm Buchanan Penthouse (B501) University of British Columbia, Point Grey Campus Hosted by Dr. Handel Wright and Dr. Alejandra Bronfman Seminar by Dr. Daniel McNeil and discussion with grad students and faculty Lunch served

October 14, 6:00-9:00pm SFU’s Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Studio Goldcorp Centre for the Arts Hosted by Dr. Laura Marks and Dr. Henry Daniel Seminar by Dr. Daniel McNeil and discussion with grad students and faculty

October 15 5:30pm SFU’s Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema Goldcorp Centre for the Arts Public screening of John Akomfrah’s The Stuart Hall Project

7:00-10:00pm SFU’s Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema Goldcorp Centre for the Arts Panel roundtable discussion

Panel Chair: Dr. Handel Wright - Professor and Director, Centre for Culture, Identity & Education, UBC

Respondents: Dr. Daniel McNeil - Professor of History, Migration and Diaspora Studies, Carleton University Dr. Laura Marks - Dena Wosk University Professor, Visual and Cultural Studies, SFU/SCA Dr. David Chariandy - Associate Professor of English, SFU Dr. Adel Iskandar - Assistant Professor of Global Communication, SFU Dr. Alessandra Santos - Assistant Professor of Ibero-American Literatures and Cultures, UBC

Reception to follow

These events are organized by Dr. Henry Daniel, Professor of Dance and Performance Studies at SFU, and Dr. Alejandra Bronfman, Associate Professor of History at UBC, with financial support from the School for the Contemporary Arts at SFU, the Dean’s Office in the Faculty of Communication, Art, and Technology, Institute for Performance Studies, Department of English, School of Communication, Department of History, Institute for the Humanities, School for International Studies, Centre for Imaginative Ethnography, Centre for Policy Studies on Culture & Communication, and the Faculty of Arts at UBC.