Jenn Goodwin
If I Should Stumble
Photo by Guntar Kravis
Artist Showcase
Dance
National Arts Center
Thursday, December 4
3:00 p.m
JENN GOODWIN is a Toronto based dance artist and curator. Her work and collaborations straddle dance and visual art and explore the play, power, and politics of the body in motion.
In her practice she also explores the feminization of space, the choreographic of the everyday and the inherent archives and knowledge held within the body, often investigating themes of female resilience, labour, overwhelm, exhaustion and solidarity.
Moving fluidly through multiple genres while anchored in the body and the choreographic, her practice considers the body, motion, time and space as materials. Through choreographic installations, performance, video, writing, curation and dance her work is presented in public spaces, galleries, theatres and screens. Goodwin’s work has been shown across Canada and internationally in Japan, Australia, Brussels, New York City and Amsterdam.
If I Should Stumble
If I Should Stumble explores ideas around personal and collective agency, solidarity, vulnerability, and the challenges and resilience particularly of women in day-to-day life. Performed to the powerful music of Tanya Tagaq, stunt performer/dancer Anita Nittoly personifies the concept of falling from grace, while actually falling (gracefully and otherwise) down stairs, while a group of dance artists take alternative approaches up the stairs to counterbalance the inherent stumbles in life and arrive at the top as a resilient collective.