Describing Dance: An Evening of Sharing

Join Shadbolt Fellow Carolina Bergonzoni in sharing research-in-progress from the Describing Dance project. How do dance, text, and description come together? What can we learn from Audio Description, dance, and each other? The evening will be structured as a small sharing of the dance-research in progress and a short Q&A. With the support of BCAC and Shadbolt Fellowship.

Adam G. Warren, Amy Amantea, Aviva Martin, fanny Kearse, Gemma Crowe, Kristy Kassie, Luciana D’Anunciacao, romham pàdraig gallacher

• Doors at 6PM
• Located at the 2nd floor of the Woodward’s building

Host Department: Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies

Carolina Bergonzoni (she/her) is a dance artist, somatic educator and practitioner, and emergent scholar. Carolina holds a Ph.D. in Arts Education, a BA and MA in Philosophy, and an MA in Comparative Media Arts. She is the 2023 recipient of the Outstanding Dissertation Award for the Arts & Inquiry in the Visual & Performing Arts in Education SIG of AERA. Her practices span between dancing, writing, and teaching from the body.

Carolina is the Artistic Associate of All Bodies Dance Project (ABDP), an inclusive dance company that brings together dancers with and without disabilities. She has directed two audio-described movies and has been part of , a dance piece created in collaboration with blind and partially sighted consultants, to be experienced with the non-visual senses, created by ABDP. These projects have shaped her research and current interest in audio description (AD) for live dance and, particularly, how dancers describe themselves in the dancing.

Image description:

Photo courtesy of All Bodies Dance Project

A graphic with the logo: SFU Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies in the top left corner and a headshot of Carolina on the top right corner. Carolina is white with blonde hair shoulder length. She is smiling at the camera.

In the background: a still of a dance performance in which a group of about 14 people are pictured on a stage lit in blue light against a black backdrop. Yellow neon “glow” tape is on stools and on the dancers’ costumes. Reflections of the colours can be seen on the shiny dance floor, creating an ethereal sense to the image.

Image text: Describing Dance; An event with Shadbolt Fellow Carolina Bergonzoni; April 24, World Art Centre

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

World Art Centre, 149 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, Canada