How can we refuse fantasies of homogenization or neutrality in dance? Creative output, resulting from lived, subjective experience, is intimately linked to the body and its relationships with the outside world. Rejecting the idea of the body as defined by simple morphology, physical appearance or technical ability; but rather, as a corporeal “turf” embodying unstable tensions, the workshop will explore the notion of a personal dramaturgy.
Angélique will be performing at Fluid Fest in Confession Publique.
Featured Artists
Angélique Willkie · Interpreter/Performer
Angélique Willkie recently moved back to Montreal after more than 20 years living in Europe. She is a performance artist, with experience as an interpreter, singer, dramaturg and educator. After graduating from the School of Toronto Dance Theatre, she went to live in Belgium where she participated in several dance projects with choreographers such as Alain Platel, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Karin Vyncke and Jan Lauwers/Needcompany. Her singing collaborations include the likes of Zap Mama, dEUS, DAAU and Zita Swoon Group. She has also lent her voice to composers such as Walter Hus and Spectra Ensemble, Kaat De Windt, David Linx, Fabrizio Cassol and the Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles. In addition to being a performer, Angélique Willkie has taught at the École supérieure des arts du cirque (ESAC) in Brussels and at the École de danse contemporaine de Montréal (EDCM). Most recently, she is a professor at Concordia University’s Department of Contemporary Dance. As an artist-researcher, she has been exploring her interest in the dramaturgical aspects of the body in performance. While she continues to work as a dramaturg for various dance, music and circus-theatre projects, she has recently found her way back onstage, performing the works of various Montreal choreographers.