Conversations and Essays On Dance In British Columbia – A Dance West Network Anthology

Edited by Jane Gabriels and Peter Dickinson

What—and who—do we talk about when we talk about dance in so called British Columbia? How can writing and conversation amplify our knowledge of the diverse repertoire of movement practices on Indigenous lands in this province? How does dance, as a mode of embodied knowledge, provide different perspectives on the politics of place, culture and community, sovereignty and education? These questions are at the heart of this collection, which emerges from the work of Dance West Network over the past seven years to add to the critical and community discourses on dance made by and for Indigenous, Black, and People of Colour (IBPOC) artists and audiences in various pockets of British Columbia. The writings gathered here centre the voices of dance artists and writers in the province—and occasionally beyond—by recentring conversations about their work, the questions about who and what the work is for, and the thinking of readers asking similar questions.