SPEAKING OF DANCE

Speaking of Dance is an interactive, multimedia series of talks developed to enrich and deepen your experience of dance.  These public lectures and discussion groups are a springboard for exchanging ideas and developing a deeper understanding of the world of dance and contextualizing the form in the broader Vancouver community and the world of art and culture. Presented by artists, curators, art historians, critics, writers, academics and other creative thinkers, this lecture series will give you the information, language and confidence you need to speak about dance.

For 2011/12, DanceHouse is thrilled to partner with SFU Woodwards and the School for the Contemporary Arts to present Speaking of Dance.

LOCATION: Audain Gallery, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, SFU Woodward's, 149 West Hastings Street.
TIME: 7pm
COST: FREE! 

Schedule of speakers:

Wednesday October 26, 2011 – Louise LeCavalier and Fou Glorieux -
Speaker: Kaija Pepper
KAIJA PEPPER’s fourth book is the co-edited anthology Renegade Bodies: Canadian Dance in the 1970s (Dance Collection Danse Press, 2012). Her writing on dance appears in newspapers, magazines and journals, including the Globe and Mail, www.thedancecurrent.com and Queen’s Quarterly. Since 2008, Kaija has enjoyed teaching Critical Writing in the Arts at Simon Fraser University.

Wednesday January 11, 2012 – La La La Human Steps  
Speaker: Kevin Griffin
KEVIN GRIFFIN writes about dance and art for The Vancouver Sun. He wrote his first dance story in 2003 when he interviewed Vancouver dancer and choreographer Wen Wei Wang about his full length work Tao (The Way). Since then, he's written more than 300 stories and reviews about local, national and international dance companies, dancers and choreographers.

Wednesday February 1, 2012 – Wayne McGregor and Random Dance 
Speaker: Janet Smith
JANET SMITH is a Carleton University arts-journalism grad who has been writing about Vancouver's dance scene for the past two decades. When she's not interviewing artists or reviewing shows, she's working as arts editor at the Georgia Straight, the city's largest urban weekly. 

Wednesday March , 14 2012 – Gallim Dance
Speaker: Deborah Meyers
DEBORAH MEYERS has been writing about dance for more than 25 years. She was the freelance dance critic for The Vancouver Sun for almost 10 years, and has been a regular contributor to publications that include Dance International and the Canadian Encyclopedia. She has also contributed to the field as an editor, researcher, broadcaster, facilitator and educator.