A Conversation About Urban Choreography — with Justine A. Chambers, Alana Gerecke & Annabel Vaughan

Bios:Justine A. ChambersJustine A. Chambers is a dance artist living and working on the unceded Coast Salish territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.Her movement based practice considers how choreography can be an empathic practice rooted in collaborative creation, close observation, and the body as a site of a cumulative embodied archive. Privileging what is felt over what is seen, she works with dances that are already there – the social choreographies present in the everyday. She is Max Tyler-Hite's mother. Alana GereckeBased in Vancouver, on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəjˀəm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil Waututh) First Nations, Alana Gerecke is a settler scholar, mother, and dance artist of mixed European descent.She researches choreography in public space, asking questions about how bodies are cast into relation with natural and built environments, and with other bodies. Her current book project, Moving Publics, examines the social and spatial politics of site-based dance in Vancouver. A former Trudeau Scholar and Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, Alana is currently a Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellow in the Humanities (Urban Studies, SFU) and Artist-in-Residence at Vancouver's Dance Centre (2021-22).Annabel VaughanAnnabel Vaughan is an architect and project manager at ERA Architects, she recently returned to Vancouver to manage projects in BC.She received her Master of Architecture from The School of Architecture at the University of British Columbia, where her master's thesis examined the use of heritage buildings as mnemonic devices for the collective memory of cities and their public lives. Annabel joined ERA Architects in 2015 after two decades in Vancouver, including 10 years at Birmingham & Wood where she was involved in all aspects of design and construction, including the award-winning Mountain View Cemetery. A project that revitalized an important cultural heritage landscape in the middle of the city. Her professional work includes heritage conservation, small-scale landscape architecture insertions, civic and residential building design, urban design and research, performance art lectures, and curatorial projects.She writes, teaches and participates regularly in discussions concerning the role that architecture and public art can play as agents of political change in the city.Resources: — Alana Gerecke's website: https://agerecke.wixsite.com/alanagerecke— Justine A. Chambers's website: https://justineachambers.com/— About Annabel Vaughan: https://www.eraarch.ca/person/annabel-vaughan/— Everyday Choreographies (2016) event recording: https://soundcloud.com/sfu_voce/everyday-choreographies-alana-gerecke-and-justine-chambers?in=sfu_voce/sets/public-event-recordings