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Ephemeral Artifacts (Travis Knights) 4 Channel Video

Ephemeral Artifacts (4 Channel Video)

Ephemeral Artifacts (Travis Knights) 4 Channel Video

Ephemeral Artifacts (Travis Knights) celebrates the relationship of dancer to dance and dance’s relationship to history. It centres the body as a space of transmission and dance as a defiant act of creating knowledge. Featuring tap artist Travis Knights, this work integrates music, video, sculpture and storytelling.


Part of my entry point for designing this conversation was examining Ephemeral Artifacts as repertoire. It is a work that you have been creating and presenting since 2017, with multiple artists in works of different scales and in diverse contexts. Externally it can appear different each time, depending on the artists you are working with, but the choreographic framework remains while the artistic investigation evolves. It’s a presence-ing of lineage (form), a presence-ing of transgenerational knowledge (time) that maintains a relationship to lines of inquiry (context) and also lines of accumulation and proliferation (body). At the same time it expresses an ethic of collaboration which is another structure/system contained in the choreography of co-creation. One that is not actually so visible to a participant-witness at the end product but nonetheless it is conscious and insistently choreographic.
— Coman Poon in discussion with Brandy Leary 2021

Year: 2021, 2022

Venue: Scarborough Town Centre (Scarborough), MAI Lobby (Montreal)

Co-Choreography/Direction/Dramaturgy: Brandy Leary

Co-Choreography/Performance/Composition: Travis Knights

Videography/Editing: Robert Kingsbury

Presenter: MakeRoom (Scarborough), MAI (Montreal)

Photos: screen captures Anandam