Dance Dialogues - Field-Work: a slow dance

The Dance Centre’s new series of talks Dance Dialogues features a stimulating presentation by dance artist and scholar Ileanna Sophia Cheladyn. In Field-Work: a slow dance, Cheladyn will share how she got lost in a year of ethnographic fieldwork in the Vancouver dance community she’s called home for over a decade.

Now, she fields questions from the field. Invisible forces, shifting relations, and the subtle ways bodies register change. A field can be land, a branch of knowledge, a zone of influence, or the space where a force takes hold.

This is a talk that thinks through fields that think about (other) fields, noticing how one field’s logic brushes against another’s. Be it the fields of anthropology and dance, or the fields of her gestures and ours. Each contact sparks a different choreography of bodies, things to think with, and ways of knowing.

Tickets are on a sliding scale $0-$25.