Site Specific Dance Series
Mile Zero Dance’s Site Specific Dance Series continues on March 4 with Melanie Kloetzel! Site Specific Dance Series: These classes on site specific work will feature a range of instructors guiding students through funding, planning, creation and self-production of dance in non-traditional spaces
March 4
6-8 PM
$15 drop-in
Mile Zero Dance is located at 9931 78 Ave NW
Site Specific Class with Melanie Kloetzel: The Politics of Place-Based Practice – Ethics, Needs and Interventions
This class will focus on issues of attunement within a 21st century settler colonial context. By examining the link between attunement, awareness, privilege, and ethics, we will consider what a place needs as well as what place-based interventions might be both possible and positive. The class will include listening, observing and full physical experimentation.
Melanie Kloetzel (MFA, PhD) is a settler performance maker, scholar and educator based in Treaty 7 territory in northern Turtle Island/Canada. Director of the dance theatre company kloetzel&co. and co-director of the climate art collective TRAction, Kloetzel has developed events, workshops and encounters in theatre spaces, alternative venues, and online environments across four continents. Kloetzel is co-editor of Site Dance: Choreographers and the Lure of Alternative Spaces (2009), and co-author of (Re)Positioning Site Dance: Local Acts, Global Perspectives (2019) and Covert: A Handbook (2021). Kloetzel is Division Lead and Professor of Dance at University of Calgary.
Site Specific Dance Series Dates 2025-26:
Dec 3, 6-8 PM Eric Awuah
Jan 28, 6-8 PM Stephanie Patsula
Feb 11, 6-8 PM Jen Mesch
March 4, 6-8 PM Melanie Kloetzel
April 1, 6-8 PM Tia Kushniruk
At the culmination, two students will be selected to receive a small commission to develop their work in the summer!
This series is supported by the Edmonton Arts Council