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. Currently the scholar in residence at The Scotiabank Dance Centre. 

(you can call me Ily)

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

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. Currently the scholar in residence at The Scotiabank Dance Centre.

(you can call me Ily) 

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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READING LIST


What am I thinking with?

maroon choreography (Fahima Ife)

Power of Gentleness (Anne Dufourmantelle)

Corpus (Jean-Luc Nancy)

Mourning Diary (Roland Barthes)

DUB (alexis pauline gumbs)

Dear Science (Katherine McKittrick)

Be Holding (Ross Gay)

A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans (Jakob von Uekull)

Fragments of an Anarchist Anthroplogy (David Graeber)

Practicing Peace (Pema Chodron)

Scenes of Subjection (Saidiya Hartman)

Caught Falling (David Koteen & Nancy Stark Smith)

The Thinking Body (Mabel Todd)

Activist Affordances (Arceli Dokumaci)

Worldmaking (Dorine Kondo)

Rest as Resistance (Tricia Hersey)

Making (Tim Ingold)

Split and Splice: A Phenomenology of Experimentation (Hans-Jörg Rheinberger)

The Undercommons (Fred Moten & Stefano Harney)

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