Lauren Runions (b. 1989) is a dance artist, choreographer, and facilitator of mixed settler ancestry based in Tkarón:to (Toronto) and Kjipuktuk (Halifax). They are the artistic director of project I/O Movement which offers site-responsive performances, community workshops, and public residencies.
For Lauren dancing involves moving-thinking, writing, choreographic objects, community labs, performances, and daily independent practice. Their work investigates the role of choreography as a reciprocal spatial practice; and with deliberate movement experiments and staged interventions they begin to expand this notion through score-reading and -writing. Scores open possibility for improvisation, sounding, observing, walking, and tending to routine dailiness. Scores exalt presence and ways to be in dialogue-with material, beings, and place. Lauren’s work questions how social choreographies shape embodied awareness and inform their responsibility to living with city and natural ecologies.
For more information you can visit: @laurenrunions + @iomovement
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As I situate myself between places in my practice, I acknowledge where I am based is on the Indigenous land and waters systems of Kjipuktuk and Tkarón:to. Tkarón:to is the territory of Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabe, the Haudenosaunee and the Wyandot peoples. I also acknowledge the unceded lands of Mi’kma’ki and the Mi’kmaq peoples. Katarokwi, the Indigenous lands of the Anishinaabe and the Haudenosaunee, and Oslo, home to many Sámi peoples, are places that have greatly affected me as well. I am committed to living in alignment with both the Dish With One Spoon treaty and the Peace and Friendship treaty as I live on and with both of these lands; and move-with deep consideration.