July 8th -15th: Crimson Coast Dance Society brings to Nanaimo an incredible festival showcasing two incredible programs, among others, that bring Contemporary Dance and Indigenous Identity through Dance. E: Crimson Coast Dance Society brings to Nanaimo an incredible festival showcasing two incredible programs among others. Evann Stevens and Olivia C Davies share their experiences in this collaborative art.
www.oliviacdavies.ca/bio/
Olivia C. Davies is a Canadian Contemporary Indigenous dance artist who creates and collaborates across multiple platforms including choreography, curation, conversation, film, and sound design to share stories that open new ways to experience the world. Davies’ body of work spans three decades with creations and collaborations that explore the emotional and political relationships between people and places, often investigating the body’s dynamic ability to transmit narrative, blood memory, and a neo-traditional Indigenous perspective. In 2018, she founded O.Dela Arts and Matriarchs Uprising Festival. She honours her mixed-blood ancestry as an Algonquin Anishinaabe-Kwe with French-Canadian, Finnish and Welsh heritage.
www.evannsiebens.com/bio
Evann Siebens makes media, performance and photos with movement. Her lens-based practice negotiates the human body as an archival site and the politics of the female gaze. She danced with the National Ballet of Canada and the Bonn Ballett before studying film production at New York University. She worked as a dance cinematographer for many years and shot dancers such as Mikhail Baryshnikov, Bill T. Jones and Lucinda Childs. Recent exhibitions and screenings include: Cloud Seven + WAAP Brussels (Brussels, 2024), Vancouver Art Gallery Offsite (Vancouver, 2021), MACBA (Barcelona, 2021), Kunstinstituut Melly (Rotterdam, 2020), Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow, 2020), WAAP (Vancouver, 2019) and Belkin Gallery (Vancouver, 2019).
Her documentary work previously screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and was broadcast on PBS. Evann recently screened a film at Lincoln Center in New York City and won the ‘Outstanding Overall Work’ prize at the Light Moves Festival in Limerick, Ireland. Her work from ‘A Performance Affair’ in Brussels, Belgium was featured on the front page of the International New York Times in 2019. She is represented by Wil Aballe Art Projects in Vancouver, Canada.
Crimson Coast Dance, Holly Bright and Celest Alleck have brought many fantastic artists to Nanaimo for Infringing Dance Festival July 8th - 12th.
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