Research

In the radical self-care, anti-discrimination and anti-racist body-based practices of conflict management and healing, settling the body is one of the primary aspects to begin the process of coming back to the body. Settling the body is a crucial moment in working with the body in performative and dance...

The ability to improvise, to be creative with one another, is an essential part of performance practice for the contemporary, creative musician and dancer, without which we are lost. Improvisation’s implementation can vary enormously, from a delineated tool towards choreographic/compositional ends, to...

DFG-Research project (August 2015 - February 2020)

Choreographic bodies are qualified through modes of expansion and transgression that correspond to aesthetic strategies which energise body, action, space and gaze. 

My project...

Jonathan Osborn is a Toronto-based choreographer, educator, and researcher. He holds degrees in English, Dance, and Dance Studies (PhD, York University). Jonathan focuses specifically on the solo form and his choreographic works have received support from municipal, provincial, and...

In its second edition the Laboratory on Feedback in Artistic Processes focused on contemporary feedback culture in regards to the audience. What can public feedback with audiences do for the artist and the audience itself? The laboratory explored alternatives to the artistic...

Workshop, Performance, Symposium

Whether walking together or on our own, we are always synchronizing and desynchronizing: swinging limbs, adjusting muscle tone, heartbeat, breathing… Our bodies are defined by a multiplicity of rhythms, which permanently influence each other. If we...