Victoria-based Artists in Residence
Visible Bodies Collective will continue exploring various genres of dance, including pole, contemporary dance, and embodiment facilitation. The collective has built three programs for its members: Reclaiming the Sensual Body with Linley Faulkner; Dance Peace on This Bleeding Earth, an embodiment curriculum designed and facilitated by Lindsay Delaronde and co-facilitated by Kathy Lang; and community circles and drop-in sessions to discuss topics like governance, creative practice, artistic alliances, partnerships, and creative projects.
Visible Bodies Collective is a multidisciplinary embodiment practice group grounded within global Indigenous ways of knowing and being. This shared collective of knowledge keepers engages in training, creation, and performance with an emphasis on somatic processing and structured improvisation. Their mission is to establish a collective process of working that expresses concepts of Indigenous epistemologies, spirituality, social and political justice, land-based dramaturgy, cultural resurgence, and embodiment as a revitalization of ancestral knowledge through traditional and contemporary dance and movement practice. The collective engages the body as the main vehicle of political expression addressing topics like social issues and intergenerational and ancestral healing. Their underlying desire is for transformation, connection back to the teachings of Mother Earth, and to the universal laws of nature through sovereign bodies. They gather for restoration and nourishment of spirits; mending past, present and future, weaving traditional and contemporary story, rhythm, and natural abilities and intuition to orate their experiences as women of color.