At the intersection of Dance Dramaturgy and Black Performance Studies, the ABC’s of Dramaturgical Ecologies events emerged from a desire to generate dialogue and reflection across these two fields.

A pair of keywords drawn from our research and placed in dialogue between the DE group and invited artists, practitioners, scholars. These keywords served as prompts - mediums, or perhaps we could say, excuses - for conversations with intention and framing, yet never limited by them. We present here a brief account of each event and the themes that emerged through the interwoven dialogues.

Click on the events hyperlinks bellow for an account of each event.

FIRST PUBLIC EVENT:

Relationality and Body-as-Archive, with Seika Boye (University of Toronto) and Mélanie Demers (MAYDAY), moderated by Cadu Mello.

SECOND PUBLIC EVENT:

Praxis and Diaspora, with Stéphane Martelly (University of Waterloo, CA) and 'Funmi Adewole (De Montford University, UK), moderated by Dana Dugan.

THIRD PUBLIC EVENT:

Friction and Opacity, with SERAFINE1369 (London, UK) and Daniel McNeil (Queen’s University, CA), moderated by Vanessa Montesi.

FOURTH PUBLIC EVENT:

Embodiment and Representation with Dana Michel (Montreal, QC) and Naila Keleta-Mae (University of Waterloo, CA), moderated by Matthew-Robin Nye.

CLOSING PUBLIC EVENT - GROUND PROVISIONS:

In dialogue with Dr. Erin Manning, who brings the philosophy of movement into the realms of Neurodiversity and Blackness to inquire into the normative prescriptions of whiteness; and Dr. Adebayo Akomolafe’s provocative reflections on post-activism, global crisis, and ontofugitivity, Ground Provisions emerged from a desire to generate dialogue and reflection on Dance dramaturgy and Black Performance Studies, diasporic conceptualizations of Blackness in its creative manifestations. Moderated by Angélique Willkie.