Dana Michel

Dana Michel is a live artist. Her works interact with the expanded fields of improvisation, choreography, sculpture, comedy, hip-hop, cinematography, techno, poetry, psychology, dub and social commentary to create a centrifuge of experience. In 2014, she was awarded the newly created ImPulsTanz Award (Vienna) in recognition for outstanding artistic accomplishments, and was highlighted among notable female choreographers of the year by the New-York Times. In 2017, Michel was awarded the Silver Lion for Innovation in Dance at the Venice Biennale. In 2018, she became the first ever dance artist in residence at the National Arts Centre, Canada. In 2019, she was awarded the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art (Kuopio, Finland). Michel is currently touring three solo performance works: YELLOW TOWEL, MERCURIAL GEORGE and CUTLASS SPRING. Based in Montreal, Michel is an artist supported by Parbleux. Photo: Richmond Lam.

Creation and performed by Dana Michel Artistic drive Ellen Furey, Peter James, Mathieu Léger, Heidi Louis, Roscoe Michel, Yoan Sorin, Karlyn Percil, Alanna Stuart Sound Consultant David Drury Lighting Design Karine Gauthier Technical Direction Karine Gauthier and Caroline Nadeau Production By Dana Michel Delegated Production Parbleux Presented By Key Performance – Koen Vanhove, Anna Skonecka Coproduction Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain (Lausanne, Switzerland), Rosendal Theater (Trondheim, Norway), Black Box Theater (Oslo, Norway), Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans (France), National Arts Centre (Ottawa, Canada), Festival TransAmériques (Montreal, Canada), Julidans (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels, Belgium), Montpellier Danse (France), Moving in November (Helsinki, Finland) Co-produced with the support of the Visiting Artists Program in Dance, a joint initiative of the National Arts Center and the Canada Council for the Arts. Creation Residencies Center Chorégraphique National d’Orléans (France), National Arts Centre (Ottawa, Canada), CounterPulse (San Francisco, USA), Dancemakers (Toronto, Canada), da:ns lab (Singapore), Galerie du Dourven – Passerelle Centre d’Art Contemporain (France), Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels, Belgium), PAF – Performing Arts Forum (France), Parbleux (Montreal, Canada), Usine C (Montreal, Canada), Reykjavik Dance Festival (Iceland), Tanzhaus Zurich (Switzerland) The creation of this work was made possible by the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec.