It was amazing to have Olivia Davies, Vancouver-based performer, choreographer, and community-arts facilitator of Ojibwe, French Canadian, and Welsh heritage on the Virtualian Festival. Davies' practice has intrinsic ties to feminist politics and social justice and explores the emotional and political relationships between people and places, so the discussions we had spanned many hot topics and touched both uncomfortable and necessary places of exploration.
The body will take you to where the mind can't...
Davies’ choreography transmits narrative while her works traverse boundaries and challenge social prejudice, conveying concepts that open different ways to see and experience the world. She is a founding member of the Circadia Indigena Aboriginal Arts Collective, Crow’s Nest Collective, and MataDanze Collective. Davies is the founding Artistic Director of O.Dela Arts. Her work has been presented across Canada in Ontario, Quebec, and BC since 2004.
You can learn more about Olivia and her art at www.oliviadavies.ca