I am a multidisciplinary artist, presently performing and creating dance, writing, and making video. My career has been an exploration of bodies in space. My practice is site and project specific. It is fuelled by the honesty, social engagement and rigour involved in collaboration and improvisation. My life, art, and activism are interdependent. I am an eco-anarchist feminist. I am a transgender woman.
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Since 2009 I have collaborated with Kyle Syverson as KSAMB Dance Company. www.ksamb.com Our work is post-capitalist, engaged, life affirming and feminist. We have performed over 80 original shows of dance based site specific movement theatre. Throughout 2020-22 our performances have been outdoors, observing pandemic restrictions, including Be Lonely, To the Heart, Nuit de Couleurs, Tipping Point 1, 2, 3 and 4, Unfolding and more than 50 Wild Card Movement shows.
From 2005 until the present I have studied dance and movement, completing over 600 hours of professional training in Contact Improvisation, Modern, Ballet and Mime in Canada and Spain. |
From 1983 to 2011, I designed sets, costumes, lighting, and video for Persephone Theatre, 25 Street Theatre, Theatre Ecstasis and Tant per Tant in Canada and for the National Theatre of Catalonia, Teatre OM, and Els Joglars in Spain.
In 2002, I was hired by the Western Development Museum as full time exhibits designer. I was terminated without cause in 2011. This led to my involvement as an activist in the struggle to win protection for gender identity under the Saskatchewan Code of Human Rights.
From 1990 to 2002 I specialized as Theatre Consultant for the renovation and construction of theatre buildings, including the second stage of the National Theatre of Catalonia in Barcelona from 1994-97 and the Broadway Theatre in Saskatoon from 1999-2002.
In 2001, I created my first solo performance, Demultiplexing Poetry, a call for artists to examine the ownership and control of cultural transmission, at the CARFAC AGM in Saskatoon, using video projection, props and costumes.
From 1997 to 2000 I developed and taught a post-secondary course on the history and design of performance space for students of direction at the Institute of Theatre of Barcelona.
In 1996, I began to work with digital media, collaborating with La Fura dels Baus (Barcelona) on Emerging Patterns, shown simultaneously in Regina and Saskatoon through an early broadband digital connection. Since that time I have created audio and video content for performances as well as a 20-minute documentary, Transqueery, which was screened at Paved Arts in Saskatoon in 2012 and the Queer City Cinema International Film Festival in Regina in 2013.
In 1986, I began designing exhibits for the Western Development Museum.
In 1982-83 my site-specific installation, including 9 life-sized concrete figures, was commissioned by the Saskatchewan Government for permanent display in the TC Douglas building in Regina.
I studied Fine Arts at the U of S from 1979-83, but did not graduate. I began my career in 1980 as a sculptor with The Wild Oat Event, a collaborative art Happening which included a 50-foot tall wild oat sculpture I made with Michael Martin from Monsanto wild oat herbicide cans. My documentation of the event was selected for the Mendel Open Juried Exhibition of that year.
In 2002, I was hired by the Western Development Museum as full time exhibits designer. I was terminated without cause in 2011. This led to my involvement as an activist in the struggle to win protection for gender identity under the Saskatchewan Code of Human Rights.
From 1990 to 2002 I specialized as Theatre Consultant for the renovation and construction of theatre buildings, including the second stage of the National Theatre of Catalonia in Barcelona from 1994-97 and the Broadway Theatre in Saskatoon from 1999-2002.
In 2001, I created my first solo performance, Demultiplexing Poetry, a call for artists to examine the ownership and control of cultural transmission, at the CARFAC AGM in Saskatoon, using video projection, props and costumes.
From 1997 to 2000 I developed and taught a post-secondary course on the history and design of performance space for students of direction at the Institute of Theatre of Barcelona.
In 1996, I began to work with digital media, collaborating with La Fura dels Baus (Barcelona) on Emerging Patterns, shown simultaneously in Regina and Saskatoon through an early broadband digital connection. Since that time I have created audio and video content for performances as well as a 20-minute documentary, Transqueery, which was screened at Paved Arts in Saskatoon in 2012 and the Queer City Cinema International Film Festival in Regina in 2013.
In 1986, I began designing exhibits for the Western Development Museum.
In 1982-83 my site-specific installation, including 9 life-sized concrete figures, was commissioned by the Saskatchewan Government for permanent display in the TC Douglas building in Regina.
I studied Fine Arts at the U of S from 1979-83, but did not graduate. I began my career in 1980 as a sculptor with The Wild Oat Event, a collaborative art Happening which included a 50-foot tall wild oat sculpture I made with Michael Martin from Monsanto wild oat herbicide cans. My documentation of the event was selected for the Mendel Open Juried Exhibition of that year.