Coroner – looking to the end combines contemporary dance and projection.

Moreira uses choreology to create her work. The video projection will feature video recordings that she has collected from different end-of-life-processes in varying cultural, financial, and religious practices in Europe & North America, featuring:

  1. cemeteries
  2. palliative care
  3. hospitals
  4. old age homes
  5. funerals

Choreology will be used to devise movement material, and the dance will be “danced” in front of a video projection featuring the above 5 circumstances.

Choreology is the study of dance notation or the aesthetic and scientific study of all forms of human movement by movement notation. Nevertheless, in order to actually write-out dance (and in doing so describe actions, dynamics, and forces, which seems more indistinct then concrete), notators need to accurately describe and label all of the components of human movement. However, Moreira is less interested in the actual writing-down of dance movements, and more focused in the precision of labeling actions, dynamics, forces, relationships etc., to create an unparalleled exactness in choreography and studio rhetoric between the dancers and choreographer. She believes this process will increase public engagement because of the subsequent increased clarity of the themes and stories of the dance. Moreira suspects this increase in thematic clarity to be vital to attracting and then maintaining new audiences to the genre.

About Carmen Moreira

Moreira is a Portuguese-Canadian choreographer based in England and Canada, and is Executive Director and Choregrapher of SQx dance company. She trained at the McKay School of Dance (British Columbia), School of Winnipeg Contemporary Dancers, and the School of Toronto Dance Theatre. Moreira graduated from Mount Allison University (New Brunswick)–BA (Hons) English) and London Contemporary Dance School (BA (Hons) Contemporary Dance). In 2007, she completed her Yoga Teacher Training with master Ashtanga Yogis, David and Satya Garrigues in Seattle and is a registered instructor with the Yoga Alliance of North America.

Moreira’s work has been supported by the Province of British Columbia, BC Ministry of Finance and the Ministry Responsible for Multiculturalism, Creative Scotland, Arts Council England, BC Arts Council, Columbia Basin Trust, Canada Council, Boeing, Canadian Tire, and Telus.

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