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
︎︎︎ Contact
Ileanna Sophia Cheladyn
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Ileanna
Sophia Cheladyn is a Canadian dance artist and scholar currently based on Patwin lands (Davis,
California) to pursue her PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology at UC Davis, and on Coast Salish lands (Vancouver, BC, Canada).
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 works really hard to take care of the
knowledge she and her collaborators engage with and generate.
Currently,
Ileanna is working s l o o o o o o o o o o o o o w l y with slowness. Slowness for Ileanna 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.
