Coexisdance is a curated evening of short (10-15 minute) improvised duets and small ensembles comprised of sound and movement artists.
We come together in the spirit of collaborative exploration, investigation and adventure.
We come together in the spirit of collaborative exploration, investigation and adventure.
Show Program
Wonderful Artists
Pursuit Grooves
Pursuit Grooves (Vanese Smith) is an experimental electronic sound artist, educator, visual artist, and DJ who produces cinematic and soulful, genre-bending bass music, with special interests in creative sound sources, sampling, and unique rhythmic construction.
Judy Luo
people // patterns // puzzles // play! Jia Yi (Judy) Luo is a Chinese-Canadian dance artist based out of Tkaronto, Canada, and inside her trusty blue suitcase. She loves animating everyday spaces with movement and stoked to be back at base for coexisDance #107. Curious about her whereabouts? Head over to her Substack publication, mindthemoves, to read about her thought and movement journeys!
James Bailey
James has been participating in CoexisDance since its inception, almost exclusively on the sound-making side.
Oz Bamboo
Master of the shakugachi flute, luthier, composer. All around the globe since 10 years ago.
Laura Swankey
Laura Swankey is a Canadian improviser and electronic artist dedicated to exploring the full capacity of the voice. Her solo work combines dry & processed voice to create soundscapes under simple, earnest melodies & stories. Sound that is minimalist at some moments can be dense, raw and abrasive at others. Laura also plays with Avataar, Plastic Babies, Parade, The Afton Project, Swanherds, HUE, Jazz Bras Dot Com, and Proxemics. Laura teaches music at the University of Toronto and York University, and is a CRPO registered psychotherapist (qualifying).
Laura Barrett
Laura's work deals with speculative futures amid the dystopian present, wandering fluidly and quizzically through impressionist forests of piano, voice, and any other instrument that might be growing on nearby trees.
Meryem Alaoui
Meryem Alaoui is a Toronto-based Moroccan dancer-choreographer, and founder of Jasad Dance Projects. She loves to improvise using movement and voice in performance. You can find out more about her work at www.jasad.ca.
Akin Prince-mponjika
B Solomon
Multi-award nominated, winner and loser, Artist B. Solomon (Anishinaabe niini / Irish settler) was born and raised on the land in Shebahonaning of the North Channel of Lake Huron, and is a member of Henvey Inlet First Nation. As a creator his work is multidisciplinary, highly expressive and full of spirit. His works have been presented and toured across Turtle Island and many nations abroad. Since he was a teenager, much of Solomon’s work has been committed to community activation with a focus on unacknowledged and underserved peoples and land. He is passionate about helping people relearn the nature of their ancient bodies, and take back the space those bodies occupy as caretakers.
Pursuit Grooves
Pursuit Grooves (Vanese Smith) is an experimental electronic sound artist, educator, visual artist, and DJ who produces cinematic and soulful, genre-bending bass music, with special interests in creative sound sources, sampling, and unique rhythmic construction.
Judy Luo
people // patterns // puzzles // play! Jia Yi (Judy) Luo is a Chinese-Canadian dance artist based out of Tkaronto, Canada, and inside her trusty blue suitcase. She loves animating everyday spaces with movement and stoked to be back at base for coexisDance #107. Curious about her whereabouts? Head over to her Substack publication, mindthemoves, to read about her thought and movement journeys!
James Bailey
James has been participating in CoexisDance since its inception, almost exclusively on the sound-making side.
Oz Bamboo
Master of the shakugachi flute, luthier, composer. All around the globe since 10 years ago.
Laura Swankey
Laura Swankey is a Canadian improviser and electronic artist dedicated to exploring the full capacity of the voice. Her solo work combines dry & processed voice to create soundscapes under simple, earnest melodies & stories. Sound that is minimalist at some moments can be dense, raw and abrasive at others. Laura also plays with Avataar, Plastic Babies, Parade, The Afton Project, Swanherds, HUE, Jazz Bras Dot Com, and Proxemics. Laura teaches music at the University of Toronto and York University, and is a CRPO registered psychotherapist (qualifying).
Laura Barrett
Laura's work deals with speculative futures amid the dystopian present, wandering fluidly and quizzically through impressionist forests of piano, voice, and any other instrument that might be growing on nearby trees.
Meryem Alaoui
Meryem Alaoui is a Toronto-based Moroccan dancer-choreographer, and founder of Jasad Dance Projects. She loves to improvise using movement and voice in performance. You can find out more about her work at www.jasad.ca.
Akin Prince-mponjika
B Solomon
Multi-award nominated, winner and loser, Artist B. Solomon (Anishinaabe niini / Irish settler) was born and raised on the land in Shebahonaning of the North Channel of Lake Huron, and is a member of Henvey Inlet First Nation. As a creator his work is multidisciplinary, highly expressive and full of spirit. His works have been presented and toured across Turtle Island and many nations abroad. Since he was a teenager, much of Solomon’s work has been committed to community activation with a focus on unacknowledged and underserved peoples and land. He is passionate about helping people relearn the nature of their ancient bodies, and take back the space those bodies occupy as caretakers.
Curatorial and Vision Statement for coexisDance
coexisDance was always envisioned as meeting place for artists of diverse styles and backgrounds. coexisDance founder Colin Anthony was deft at programming a balance of ambitious emerging professionals, established artists and community artists. He always left a profound curatorial mark on the programme with his characteristic simplicity, wisdom and vision.
The organizing team of coexisDance aim to make this commitment to inclusivity stronger than ever, to keep the artistry high and the vibe heartwarming. In this way we curate on the basis of equity, a vision for growing and deepening the community and a desire to showcase the most amazing improvisation. Here are some commitments that are applied when putting together each coexisDance programme:
After artists are selected the curators uses their own artistic judgment to create ensembles that will offer an exciting and balanced show. In general, coexisDance shows will feature small ensembles and will have each artist perform twice in a night in order to allow for a bigger artistic statement. As a result, there is usually only room for 8-11 performers each show.
We hope that this statement is clarifying to all that apply to perform and hope that everyone who applies will be patient and flexible and keep attending the shows!
To many more Coexisdance adventures <3
Raphael Roter & Brenda Joy Lem
The organizing team of coexisDance aim to make this commitment to inclusivity stronger than ever, to keep the artistry high and the vibe heartwarming. In this way we curate on the basis of equity, a vision for growing and deepening the community and a desire to showcase the most amazing improvisation. Here are some commitments that are applied when putting together each coexisDance programme:
- Meaningfully Including at artists of colour and indigenous artists.
- Including emerging and next generation artists.
- Including artists who are new to coexisDance.
After artists are selected the curators uses their own artistic judgment to create ensembles that will offer an exciting and balanced show. In general, coexisDance shows will feature small ensembles and will have each artist perform twice in a night in order to allow for a bigger artistic statement. As a result, there is usually only room for 8-11 performers each show.
We hope that this statement is clarifying to all that apply to perform and hope that everyone who applies will be patient and flexible and keep attending the shows!
To many more Coexisdance adventures <3
Raphael Roter & Brenda Joy Lem
We would like to gratefully acknowledge funding support from the Ontario Arts Council, the Government of Ontario for their support.
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