I AM A GENIUS DOES ANYONE HERE KNOW ME?

Auteurs-es

  • Lois Brown Neighbourhood Dance Works

DOI :

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

Mots-clés :

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

Résumé

Lois Brown a assisté au symposium international VIBE à l’Université Concordia, du 30 novembre au 2 décembre 2018, où elle a interprété une version solo de vingt minutes de I AM A GENIUS DOES ANYONE HERE KNOW ME? Cette performance était basée sur une pièce de 70 minutes également intitulée I AM A GENIUS DOES ANYONE HERE KNOW ME? créée par Lois Brown et composée par James O’Callaghan.

Bande-annonce : https://vimeo.com/289326915

Biographie de l'auteur-e

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.

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Publié-e

2021-10-08

Comment citer

Brown, L. (2021). I AM A GENIUS DOES ANYONE HERE KNOW ME?. Revue Canadienne d’études Sur Le Handicap, 10(2), 309–315. https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v10i2.806

Numéro

Vol. 10 No. 2 (2021): VIBE: Challenging Ableism and Audism Through the Arts

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