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.
Full bio HERE
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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
︎︎︎ Contact
DISORIENTATION
MORE SOON.
Disorientation is part of a dance practice, a teaching practice, a philosophy, a politic, and an ontology.
The premise is this: undo, unsuture, take apart, unweave. Do this to and with habits, whiteness, capitalism, colonialism.
Some modes of disorientation: SLOWNESS, SHAKING, FALLING, BREAKING VERTICALITY/BECOMING HORIZONTAL, SPINNING.
Part of this practice has been developed in collaboration with Teresa Salas [her website is forthcoming]. The very broad aim/goal/orientation of the disorientation practice is to cultivate trust in self and others, to navigate risk and wellbeing, and to develop resilience and ease around the sense of not-knowing. It’s also really nice to get dizzy and have fun, to activate strange sensitivites, and to stay with questions of effort, challenge, endurance, and “what-if?”
A scholarly lineage: Sylvia Wynter, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Fred Moten, Saidiya Hartman, George Yance, Eduard Glissant, Stephano Harney, Kathrine McKittrick, Kriti Sharma, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson,
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.
There are writings, workshops, and courses that serve as products that can circulate the practice.
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SPECULATIVE FORMINGS WRITINGS - spring 2023
Find a collection of precis/writings/musings here.
Responding to: KAthrine McKittrick, Mel Y. Chen, Erin Manning, Jerry Zee, Fred Moten, and Fahima Ife.
