Stream of Dance Festival
​Artist Bios and Credits

​SOD#1      Kick Off

​DANCE WITH PROXIES | Olivier Bosson with Fabien Pinaroli  

​DANCE WITH PROXIES | spoken performance | 
Olivier Bosson with Fabien Pinaroli
An approximative reenactment of a performance initially created by François Lewyllie and Olivier Bosson at Mon Inouïe Symphonie Performance Festival (Dunkerque France).
​Olivier Bosson and Fabien Pinaroli take you on an approximate journey to revisit the mysterious year 1979.

​Book Launch | Fabien Pinaroli
Re: Towards a Minor History of Exhibitions and Performances is a collection of textual and visual essays based on the exhibition Celebration of the Body organized by Ingrid and Iain Baxter (N. E. Thing Co.) in 1976 in Kingston, Canada, and its reactivation in 2012 in three acts: in Lyon, Saint-Fons and London, by Fabien Pinaroli et al. For more information on the book, please visit the readit.fr website.
​The launch of the book Re: Towards a Minor History of Exhibitions and Performances is supported by the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris.

Olivier Bosson | Photo Credit:

Olivier Bosson is a French contemporary artist, filmmaker and performance artist born in 1970. His recent films have a social component, tangible both in the subject of his fictions and in the processes involved in their making: Bosson makes participatory films with numerous actors and extras, that he meets and selects through large castings. His performances use different means, although he explores the same question: the involvement of the spectator at “scale 1”. Works include: The Call (fiction film, shooting in Markham On. Canada, 2018); Dents de Scie—Sawteeth (fiction film, 60min, 2017); Le forum des Rêves— The forum of dreams (international fiction series, 10 ep. 2017); Tropique— Tropic (fiction film, 58min, 2016); Le stop le soir (fiction film, 50min, 2012); 200% (fiction film in collaboration with Nicolas Boone, 80min, 2010).
http://olivierbosson.free.fr/

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Fabien Pinaroli lives and works in Lyon, France. He teaches contemporary art history in Lyon and Saint-Étienne universities. He writes regularly in monographic publications and for different magazines as Ciel Variable (Canada), L’art Même and FluxNew (Belgium), Hippocampe (France). He co-curated in 2017 the film-exhibition Everybody Wants to Rule the World and was co-editor of the book Harald Szeemann, Individual Methodology (JRPRingier, 2008). In 2008, he co-curated with IAC (Institut d’Art Contemporain de Villeurbanne) Dan Graham, Jeff Wall: The Children’s Pavilion. He conceived and organized CoB#2 in 2012, the “reworking” of the exhibition Celebration of the Body (N. E. Thing Co., 1976, Kingston, Canada) by Iain and Ingrid Baxter. Re: Toward a Minor History of Exhibitions and Performances by it: éditions in 2018.
He was curator of the monographic exhibition Iain Baxter & at Raven Row, London in 2013. In 2015, he co-curated at Nivola Museo, Sardinia, Italy Castelli di Sabbia & IL TOPO. In the project indexmakers (19, Crac Montbéliard​, 2017).  He revisits certain characteristics of Seth Siegelaub and Stewart Brand, two standout bibliographers.

DANCE WITH PROXIES Francois Lewyllie, Olivier Bosson

FEMME5

This work was made possible with support from the Saskatchewan Arts Board.
​FEMME5 | a collaborative performance initiated by Helen Pridmore with Johanna Bundon, Astrid Lloyd, ​Robin Poitras and Krista Solheim.
FEMME5 is a collaborative project borne of five female artists, inspired by sound, movement, matter and improvisation. For the  Re: Celebrating the Body exhibition and Stream of Dance Festival, FEMME5 engages with Astrid Lloyd’s installation, Hammock (2015)  in a series of interwoven sketches with movement improvisation and text, that acknowledges the women and feminine forces that have shaped their lives.

Costumes: Refurbished Wet Suits by Alla Sidorenko
Wet suits courtesy of Julia Davenport and the Santa Cruz Dive Club
Special Guests: Hannelor and Dad and Bee Pallomina. 
Bee Pallomina is dance artist living and working in Toronto. Her practice includes movement, care and the everyday. She is an artist, educator, facilitator and mom. 

Photo credit: Daniel Paquet

"Hammock" installation model (2017), Photo credit: Astrid Lloyd

"Hammock 2015" Photo credit: Daniel Paquet

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Johanna Bundon is an independent artist whose practice includes dance and theatre performance, choreography and teaching. Johanna’s choreography has been presented by New Dance Horizons, Globe Theatre’s Sandbox Series, the National Arts Centre’s Prairie Scene Festival, the 2014-15 Prairie Dance Circuit, and featured prominently in numerous theatre productions since 2006. Johanna frequently teaches dance and movement practices through New Dance Horizons Dance Core, is a faculty member of the Globe Theatre’s Actor Conservatory, and is currently a student in the Feldenkrais Professional Training Program under the direction of Elizabeth Beringer (San Diego).

Johanna Bundon | Photo Credit: Michael Bell

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Astrid Lloyd is an interdisciplinary artist from Saskatchewan. Her work incorporates architecture, performance, sculpture and textile methods in a research practice driven by curiosity about the relation of bodies in space. She has presented and exhibited in guerilla and curated performances in Europe and Canada. Astrid holds a BA in Political Studies and a BFA in Studio Art from the University of Saskatchewan, and a MFA in Fibres and Material Practices from Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. She is a Canada Graduate Scholar through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and a repeat grant recipient through the Saskatchewan Arts Board. ​​

Astrid Lloyd | Photo credit: Rodolfo Morago

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Krista Solheim is an independent dance artist and movement teacher based in Regina, SK. She received her early dance training at the Youth Ballet Company of Saskatchewan, then completed a BFA in Contemporary Dance from Concordia University in 1998. In 2014, she became STOTT PILATES® certified instructor. Over the past 20 years, Krista has pursued an independent creative and performative dance practice. As choreographer, Krista has been active in developing her voice as a soloist. As performer, she has worked with a range of choreographers from across Canada. Since 2017, Krista has been working with New Dance Horizons (NDH) Creation Base, NDH/ Rouge-gorge; dancing in the creations of Robin Poitras and Edward Poitras.

Krista Solheim | Photo credit: Daniel Paquet

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Robin Poitras is one of Saskatchewan’s most prolific dance and performance creators. Creating dance, performance and installation works, she has been actively engaged in contemporary dance practice since the early 80s. For many years Robin has traversed the formal worlds of dance and performance art. She co-founded New Dance Horizons in 1986, where she continues to act as Artistic Director. With an interest in research into diverse fields of artistic and somatic practice she has developed a unique interdisciplinary approach. Robin’s works have been presented across Canada, in Spain, France, Germany, Mongolia and Mexico. She is a recipient of the 2016 Lieutenant Governor’s Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2006 Mayor’s Awards for Business & The Arts’ Lifetime Achievement Award, and the 2004 Women of Distinction Award for the Arts.

Robin Poitras | Photo Credit: Don Hall