Vancouver dance leaders join Redefining Contemporary roundtable, December 5 at 5 pm
In TomoeArts livestream, Margaret Grenier, Lesley Telford, Sujit Vaidya, and Colleen Lanki weigh in with moderator Scheherazaad Cooper
TomoeArts presents Redefining the Contemporary on December 5 from 5 to 7 pm via Zoom; register at Eventbrite or watch it on Youtube
What is contemporary dance? What is traditional dance? Can they intersect? Why can’t we call dance that’s derived from cultural forms contemporary? And could dance programming and curation expand to include dance forms that don’t necessarily fall under “Western” categories?
These are just some of the questions that will be raised at the roundtable Redefining Contemporary, presented by TomoeArts after similar discussions during its Dance Centre residency.
It features TomoeArts’ Colleen Lanki, bharata natyam artist Sujit Vaidya, contemporary dancer and Inverso Productions artistic director Lesley Telford, and Dancers of Damelahamid artistic and executive director Margaret Grenier. Performer and choreographer Scheherazaad Cooper moderates.
Each artist will give a short presentation before the discussion, and audiences will be able to take part in the virtual talk.
The symposium is part of an international series of events on the same topic. There will be online roundtables in India on December 10 and Peru on December 11 (in Spanish).
