Esie Mensah on Tessel: Bantaba Q & A
A continuation of dance Immersion’s Online Bantaba & Check-In with Esie Mensah on her film, Tessel. In this video, Esie answers questions from the audience that we did not have time for at the Bantaba event.
Entries by Team Dance Immersion
Preserving Our Traditions
Hello, My name is Zahra Badua and I am the administrative assistant here at dance Immersion – welcome to my blog. Over the next few weeks, I will be hosting a community corner where I will be discussing various topics that affect the African Diaspora. In addition, I will be speaking with prominent people within our […]
Serving Dance Artists
On January 27, 2021, dance Immersion’s Curator & Program Director Timea Wharton-Suri spoke on Turnout Radio CIUT 89.5 FM about our programs and services for dancers. Also on the broadcast were Robert Sauvey of Dance Umbrella of Ontario and Amy Hampton of Dance Ontario Association. Hosted by Nicole Inica Hamilton, the program helped highlight the […]
dI Interview with Dr. Seika Boye: Balance
As part of our 2018 Doing Our Thing event, dance Immersion had the opportunity to ask Dr. Seika Boye: How do you balance being both a scholar and an artist? Seika’s In-Depth Reply: “I am not sure that I ever tried to find a balance between these two so often separated categories – scholar […]
A Note of Reflection and Gratitude for 2020
By Timea Wharton-Suri At the end of 2020, an exceptional year of challenge and change, I am reflecting on dance Immersion’s year. Shock, fear, hope, strength, questioning, challenging, calling out, calling in, coming together, standing apart: 2020. I am grateful to have been invited to join the dance Immersion team in the fall. This organization, […]
Configurations in Motion: What We Do
Note: This article was published in a book of essays taken from the CONFIGURATIONS IN MONTRÉAL: PERFORMANCE CURATION AND COMMUNITIES OF COLOUR event, conducted in 2017. Canadian and American performance curators, artists, and scholars gathered in Montréal June 1 and 2, 2017 to share work, develop resources, and build strategies for supporting performance in, for […]
Video: Get to Know dance Immersion
Check out this throwback video of Founder Vivine Scarlett giving an overview of dance Immersion! What was her vision when she founded the organization?