Drawing Room | Special Event: Live Online Art Project

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Open to: Public, Student, Staff, Faculty, Alumni, Future Students

Please join us for a special edition of Drawing Room, a live online art project featuring artistic collaboration between renowned choreographer, artist and dancer Michael Marye, and Canada’s leading contemporary dancer Danielle Baskerville!

When

Mar 11, 2021 4:00pm – 6:00pm

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Location

Online Attendance

https://emilycarru.zoom.us/j/87112604619?pwd=djlrQUd0ZmdRT2tiQ1VYSDJSY2FHdz09

Contact

Vjeko Sager | vsager@ecuad.ca

This week's Drawing Room session will be a special event that features a live artistic collaboration between renowned choreographer, artist and dancer Michael Marye and Canada’s leading contemporary dancer Danielle Baskerville.

Join via Zoom + participate in this unique creative experiment!

When: Thursday, March 11 from 4pm - 6pm.

Where: Zoom room
Meeting ID: 87112604619
Passcode: 939005

MARK YOUR CALENDAR
March 25 : Creativity: reversing creative process
April 8 : Mnemosyne: memory and time

Promoting drawing culture at ECU.
Drawing Room provides a space to explore drawing and creativity in a safe and respectful online environment. DR supports experimentation and interdisciplinary exchange.

Drawing Room Land Acknowledgement:
Emily Carr University is situated on unceded, traditional and
ancestral xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territories.

To learn more, visit our website: ecudrawingroom.cargo.site.

Contribute & share your drawing & writings by sending works to vsager@ecuad.ca.

Facilitated by Vjeko Sager.

Generously supported by the Faculty of Community and Culture, and the Audain Faculty of Art.

About Michael Marye

Michael Marye spent the first 30 years of his artistic life working as a dancer for companies such as the Toronto Dance Theatre, Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie, Dancetheatre David Earle, Peggy Baker Dance Projects and Doug Varone & Dancers, performing throughout Canada and in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. He also appeared in a number of dance films and theatre productions. His choreography, which has been presented across Canada and has been nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award, includes commissions for dance companies, dance institutions and independent film and theatre productions. As a rehearsal director, teacher and coach, he has worked with a number of dance companies and training institutions across Canada and abroad. He holds an MA in dance from York University. Michael continues to develop choreography in Toronto through his ensemble WalkRunDance, and as well as pursuing visual art studies in Vancouver.

About Danielle Baskerville

Danielle Baskerville works with Canada’s leading contemporary dance companies and creators and has been performing internationally for the past twenty-five years. Artistic Associate of D.A. Hoskins’ The Dietrich Group and a senior member of Dancetheatre David Earle, upcoming independent projects include commissioning and producing The Miserere Project as part of Bright Nights 2021/2022, performing in Jordan Tannaill's Declarations in Montreal's Festival Transamèrique 2021 and premiering a new solo by Jonathan Osborn entitled 100 Years. Recipient of the 2014 K.M. Hunter Award in Dance and a multiple-Dora Award winner, Danielle recently went back to school to complete an SSHRC- funded MA in Dance Studies at York University. She is a contributor to The Dance Current and has served as an Executive Member of the board of the Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists – Ontario Chapter.