A Canadian dance artist and scholar currently based on Patwin lands (Davis, California) and on Coast Salish lands (Vancouver, BC, Canada), pursuing a PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology at UC Davis. 

Her work is critical of prescriptive mind/body dualisms and hegemonic approaches to kinesthetic experience. She makes movement, textile, and text-based art in quiet, devoted, clumsy, and rigorous ways to bring creative and infrastructural change to her communities.

Ileanna is currently working s l o o o o  o  o  o   o   o   o    o    o    o   w l y with slowness and disorientation.

Her research, activist phenomenology, attends to the ways that dancers, who spend decades experimenting with their bodies as sensing and moving social intelligences, are uniquely reflective and insightful about how ideas emerge at the intersection of creative acts of meaningful performance making, pedagogical hierarchies, and social justice issues. As in: dancers invent new worlds. 

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ILEANNA SOPHIA CHELADYN

A Canadian dance artist and scholar currently based on Patwin lands (Davis, California)and on Coast Salish lands (Vancouver, BC, Canada), pursuing a PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology at UC Davis,

Her work is critical of prescriptive mind/body dualisms and hegemonic approaches to kinesthetic experience. She makes movement, textile, and text-based art in quiet, devoted, clumsy, and rigorous ways to bring creative and infrastructural change to her communities.

Full bio HERE


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01 DANCE PROJECTS ++

Here, an archive of dance projects, most of them are collaborations. 

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making

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02 SLOWNESSES

Slowness is a practice of being present to the multipilicity of temporalities and tempos experienced in a moment, a practice, a relationship. It looks like moving slowly. It looks like taking time to be thorough, to not miss a step. It looks like patience and rest. It looks like resisting demands of productivity and consumption. Slowness is a political, contemplative, and somatic practice.

Slowness is not waiting. 

Slowness is attunement. 

Kinds of slow. 

Slow like snail, slow like croissant, slow like bureaucracy. 

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forming

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03 DISORIENTATION

Page under construction <3 

A bit about disorientation as a practice. 

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getting dizzy 

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04 READING LISTS
Another page under construction <3

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syllabi madness

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