Working across forms and borders, queer, dance+ artist, Meagan O\u2019Shea (she|they) activates people individually and collectively. Devising \u201cUplifting, energetic and totally out of the ordinary\u201d performances, Meagan examines ideas from unexpected angles. She creates content-driven, problem-finding, solo work using an array of improv techniques and performance strategies. Treating process like a science experiment, she uses her body and interaction with the audience as test site, jumping between forms as she seeks to unite disparate ideas. Meagan has performed her signature mash-up solo works across the land called Canada, in New York, Mexico, Morocco, Spain, Germany, Ireland, Scotland, Norway, Finland, Hungary, Austria, Greece and North Macedonia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
O\u2019Shea has created several ensemble, participatory and in-situ performances, including her dance like no one is watching improv project <\/em>which animates\/disrupts public space. Since 2007 this project has included over 200 dancers and reached over 30,000 audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meagan teaches Interdisciplinary Solo Making and Ensemble Improv in art, education and social change contexts in North America, Europe and North Africa. She is a co-founder of hub14 creation and performance space in Toronto, was International Associate Artist at Dance Ireland for 3 seasons, Associate Artist at Theatre Direct Canada, Artistic Collaborator with Barcelona International Dance Exchange. Meagan is a recipient of the KM Hunter Award in Dance, was twice shortlisted for the Guggenheim Fellowship. She founded Stand Up Dance in 2007 as a platform to amplify her vision, and to support the work of other artists and communities. Working across forms and borders, queer, dance+ artist, Meagan O\u2019Shea (she|they) activates people individually and collectively. Devising \u201cUplifting, energetic and totally out of the ordinary\u201d performances, Meagan examines ideas from…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":17846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pedagog"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/proda.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/M-2016-Headshot-1-scaled.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"PRODA","author_link":"https:\/\/proda.no\/en\/author\/resepsjon\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/proda.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/proda.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/proda.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proda.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proda.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/proda.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17655,"href":"https:\/\/proda.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17652\/revisions\/17655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proda.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/proda.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proda.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proda.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
An international artistic nomad for many years, Meagan is now based between Troms\u00f8, Berlin and Barcelona.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"