VANCOUVER LAUNCH + DIALOGUE SERIES: My Vancouver Dance History - Peter Dickinson

MORROW (Dumb Instrument Dance Pop-up Venue), 336 W Pender Street, Vancouver, BC
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Peter Dickinson will be in residence to launch his new book, My Vancouver Dance History: Story, Movement, Community. Brief dialogues will also be conducted with the artists discussed in the book, which will be recorded via Zoom and subsequently posted to the author’s and MQUP’s websites.

Drop by to purchase a book, chat with the artists, share a socially distanced glass of wine, and browse the items for sale as part of Morrow’s collection of artist wares. Parking is available on Homer Street.

Artist Dialogue Schedule

SU 6 September: Barbara Bourget and Jay Hirabayashi (Kokoro Dance)
MO 7 September: Rob Kitsos
TU 8 September: Ziyian Kwan (Dumb Instrument Dance) and Vanessa Goodman (Action at a Distance)
WE 9 September: Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg (Tara Cheyenne Performance)
TH 10 September: Lesley Telford (Inverso Dance)
FR 11 September: James Gnam and Natalie LeFebvre Gnam (plastic orchid factory)
SA 12 September: Justine A. Chambers and Alexa Mardon

ABOUT THE BOOK

In My Vancouver Dance History Peter Dickinson crafts an embodied narrative that focuses on his critical and creative collaborations with nine Vancouver-based dance artists and companies. Mixing interview excerpts with fieldwork descriptions of studio research and performance analysis, Dickinson draws on ten years of close observation to delve into the individual histories of select members of this community, while also relating the cumulative story of Vancouver dance production and performance as it has unfolded in the past decade. The voices of other invested participants interpolate this rich history, and chapters are interspersed with a series of "movement intervals" that reflect key moments in Dickinson's history as a spectator, scholar, and collaborator.

Peter Dickinson is professor in the School for the Contemporary Arts and director of the Institute for Performance Studies at Simon Fraser University.