Click here to register on Eventbrite!
FREE, all welcome

Please join us as we kick-off DanceWorks’ 2024–2025 Season with an Artist Talk featuring our inaugural Emerging to Mid-Career Fellow, Nickeshia Garrick.

The artist will be in discussion with Co-Executive Artistic Producer and Fellowship Facilitator, Dedra McDermott, to talk about the initial months of the Emerging to Mid-Career Fellowship, her archival research interest and recent discoveries supporting her developing research and choreographic project, the ties that Bind us, the ties that Bond us.

Nickeshia is currently exploring the socio-political, cultural and artistic influences on Black Performance Art from the 1960s to now across Turtle Island. the ties that Bind us, the ties that Bond us (working title), aims to excavate the context of the aforementioned influences and the role they potentially play(ed) in shaping Black performance art movements. Through this inquiry, Nickeshia is interested in locating any sites of disruption or a critical challenge of the traditional theatre milieux in Canada beginning in 1960.

With thanks to our partner Centre for The Study of Black Canadian Diaspora. This artist talk is presented with support from FADO Performance Art, Vtape, and ArQuives.