Interview

Modes of collaboration

Production
Co-production

This first video weaves together excerpts from rehearsals and a conversation between the choreographer and her dramaturgical consultants, Thea Patterson and Julie Tamiko Manning. It offers a rare opportunity to step inside the creative process, as Alida describes why she chose to work with these consultants and why they, in turn, chose to support the project.

Project

My Grandmother’s Threads (work-in-progress)

Diffusion
My Grandmother’s Threads is a multidisciplinary choreographic project by Alida Esmail, a Canadian dance and theatre artist whose work explores the body as a carrier of memory, history, and lived experience. Grounded in her Indo-African ancestry, the project traces a family lineage from Muslim India...

Events

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Video interview

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Audio interview

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Video interview

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