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You need an idea of the world to go out into the world. But it’s the going into that makes the idea. You can’t wait for a theory, but you have to have a theory.
~Tony Kushner

• The Discourse of Dance in British Columbia: A new project, supported by a five year SSHRC Insight Grant (2022-2027), which seeks to provide a comprehensive historical, social, and analytical overview of the ways dance in British Columbia has been publicly represented and evaluated in different regulatory, critical, and institutional acts of speech and writing from 1871 to the present, as well as how contemporary dance artists in the province employ spoken and written communication tools in their own practices.

• Performing Vancouver: This project continues my place-based investigations of Vancouver’s performance ecology (broadly defined), exploring over a series of essays (that may or may not eventually cohere into a book) the local contours of site, the national networks of scale, and the global relays of social difference that help to define the city’s contemporary cultural geography. Publications related to this project include:
• “Archival Gestures, or, The Afterlives of Performance in the Work of Helen Goodwin, Justine A. Chambers, and Evann Siebens,” in Beginning with the Seventies, ed. Lorna Brown (Vancouver: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery/Information Office, 2020), 135-139.
• “The Curatorial Chronotope,” in Curating Live Arts: Global Perspectives, eds. Dena Davida, Jane Gabriels, Véronique Hudon and Marc Provonost (New York: Berghahn Books, 2019), 71-77.
• "Choreographies of Place: Dancing the Vancouver Sublime from Dusk to Dawn," in Performance Studies in Canada, eds. Laura Levin and Marlis Schweitzer (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017), 90-114.
• "Vancouverism and its Cultural Amenities: The View from Here," Canadian Theatre Review 167 (Summer 2016): 40-47.
• With Kirsty Johnston and Keren Zaiontz, "Vancouver after 2010: An Introduction," Canadian Theatre Review 164 (2015): 5-9.
• "Showing Support: Some Reflections on Vancouver's Dance Economies," Canadian Theatre Review 162 (2015): 10-15.
• "Murdered and Missing Women: Performing Indigenous Cultural Memory in British Columbia and Beyond," Theatre Survey 55.2 (2014): 202-232.
• "PuShing Performance Brands in Vancouver," Theatre Research in Canada 35.2 (2014): 130-150.

• Angie and Emily: A work of cut-up drama/algorithmic theatre based on computer-generated searches of the audiotracks of YouTube episodes of Police Woman and the online archive of Emily Dickinson’s poetry.