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The Body of Water Project
*click photos for a closer look
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​1st iteration:
6 weeks between late August and late October, 2015
Whitehorse, Calgary, St.John's.
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For CanDance Network’s 2015 Creative Exchange, the Yukon Arts Centre (Whitehorse), Springboard Performance's Fluid Festival (Calgary), and Neighbourhood Dance Works' Festival of New Dance (St John's), collaborated to form The Body of Water Project.
They invited one artist from each city to address themes and issues of water in each locale -- Anne Troake, Wojtech Mochniej, and me. We had never worked together, and in fact, initially didn't know one another from Adam.
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I'm so glad we met, and in the exact circumstances we did. We immediately had an easy, constructive, livable, way of being together in space.
We created a focused accumulation of evidence, experience, questions, histories, and debate through dance, the body, photographs, video, collaboration, community participation, and performance.
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Here's a treasure trove of images and video compiled by Mochniej on facebook
(you can see it even if you aren't on facebook:
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During the project I wrote a short series of essays about the process. You can read them here (and see more photos of course):
Body of Water essays and photos on Springboard.
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We were happy to connect with The Dance Current about this work. Check out a lovely Body of Water Project video via The Dance Current here:
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Return to 11 Selected Works here.
 Wojciech Mochniej Photo Anne Troake |
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 ADR dancing, Long Lake, Whitehorse. Photo by Mochniej |
 St.John's, rolling down Prescott with local collaborators. |
 Long Lake and ADR, WhitehorseLong Lake and ADR, Whitehorse. Photo and design by Mochniej |
 Rehearsing in St.John's. Photo by Calla Lachance |
 Rehearsal in St.John'sRehearsal in St.John's. L to R: Sara, Aimée, Alison Neal, Anne, Calla |
 Photo by Mochniej of Anne and ADR. |
 Anne and ADR, St. John's. Photo Mochniej |
 ADR in St.John's. Photo Mochniej |
 Cover of the Whitehorse StarCover of the Whitehorse Star Photo by Vince Federoff |
 Wojciech MochniejWojciech Mochniej, Calgary, Bow River. Photo by Anne Troake |
 ADR and Anne, St. John's. Photo by Mochniej |
 Mochniej, Oriana Pagnot, ADR, Troake, rehearsing on Prince's Island Park, Calgary. Photo by Darin Gregson |
 ADR (L) and Mochniej, St, John's, NLADR (L) and Mochniej, St, John's. Photo by Troake |
 ADR, Long Lake, Whitehorse. Photo by Mochniej |
 ADR, Long Lake, Whitehorse. Photo by Mochniej |
 ADR, Long LakeADR, Long Lake. Photo & design Mochniej |
 ADR, Long Lake. Photo & design by Mochniej |
 ADR, Long Lake, Whitehorse. Photo & design Mochniej |
 Anne (L), ADR (R),working with W&M Surge Dance Company, Calgary. Photo Mochneij |
 W&M Surge Dancers, Bow River, Calgary. Photo ADR published in "Moving In Place", Canadian Art, May 2017 |
 Monique Romeiko (L), Anne, ADR (R)Monique Romeiko (L), Anne, ADR (R), artist's talk at the Old Fire Hall. Photo Mochniej |
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