I AM A GENIUS DOES ANYONE HERE KNOW ME?

Authors

  • Lois Brown Neighbourhood Dance Works

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v10i2.806

Keywords:

objects, things, props, theatre, dance, performance art chronic pain, disability aesthetics, performance, curiosity

Abstract

Lois Brown attended VIBE International Symposium at Concordia University, November 30 - December 2, 2018, where she performed a twenty-minute solo version of I AM A GENIUS DOES ANYONE HERE KNOW ME? This performance was based on a 70 minute piece also titled I AM A GENIUS DOES ANYONE HERE KNOW ME? created by Lois Brown and composed by James O’Callaghan.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/289326915

Author Biography

Lois Brown, Neighbourhood Dance Works

Lois Brown was born in Corner Brook, Newfoundland. Educated in Drama at the University of Alberta, she returned to St. John’s, where she established a cross-disciplinary artistic practice. She is an original member and past Curator of Neighbourhood Dance Works, and past AD of RCA Theatre Company at the LSPU Hall. In 2005, The Canada Council for the Arts awarded her The Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for outstanding achievement in theatre by a mid-career Canadian artist. In 2010 to 2013, Lois was Artist and Dramaturg in Residence at Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal. In 2014, she received the YWCA’s Women of Distinction Goodwill award for her contribution to the arts locally and nationally. In 2019, she was also inducted into Dance Collection Danse Encore! Dance Hall of Fame. Her current artistic interests are dramaturgy, improvisation and democratization, island studies and disability arts aesthetics and processes.

Published

2021-10-08

How to Cite

Brown, L. (2021). I AM A GENIUS DOES ANYONE HERE KNOW ME?. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 10(2), 309–315. https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v10i2.806