artist/scholar, educator, writer

Writing

Glimpses of a Cultural Entrepreneur / Yasmina Ramzy in conversation with P. Megan Andrews

Chapter published in Moving Together: Dance and Pluralism in Canada. Edited by Allana C. Lindgren, Batia Boe Stolar, and Clara Sacchetti. Published by Wilfred Laurier University Press. 2021

 

“[So] What Do Dancers Know, [Anyway]?”: Voicing the Dancer’s Perspective through Emergent Choreographic Analysis

Article published in Canadian Theatre Review (Fall 2017) outlining my methodological approach to practice as research – Emergent Choreographic Analysis.

 

Midwifing Transitions: The Labour of Publishing in the History of Dance and Dance Studies in Canada

Article published in Performance Matters (2016) taking a performative approach and bringing a media studies lens and feminist perspective to bear on a recent history of dance writing and publishing in Canada.

 

SOMATIC ANACRUSIS: AN EXPERIENTIAL POETICS OF DEBORAH HAY’S CHOREOGRAPHY AND PRACTICE IN THE SOLO AT ONCE

Doctoral dissertation defended in July 2016 for completion of PhD in the Joint Program in Communication and Cultural Studies at York and Ryerson Universities.

 

“Putting it into Words: An Anecdotal History of the Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists – Ontario Chapter’s Professional Standards for Dance”

Chapter published in Right to Dance, Dancing for Rights. Edited by Naomi Jackson. Published by Banff Centre Press. 2004.

 

DANCING – BETWEEN US: PRACTICING A POLITICS OF PRESENCE

A commissioned essay for the Canada Dance Festival program booklet reflecting on the contemporary dance encounter.

 

CRYSTAL PITE: A DEAFENING SEMAPHORE

A performance response to Pite's Emergence integrating prose and poetic text.

 

Writing published by The Dance Current magazine (print and online)

From the beginning of the print magazine in May 1998 and launch of the first website in 2000, as founding editor I wrote numerous editorials, features, profiles, interviews, news, columns and reviews. This material is featured in the "My Work" section of the contributor area at thedancecurrent.com.