LIN SNELLING

Lin Snelling is a dancer whose artistic practice brings the qualities of improvisation into dance, theatre, writing, visual art and somatic practice. She toured the world with Carbone 14 and worked with many improvisation ensembles. She teaches dance, experiential anatomy and composition at the University of Alberta where she is also Director of Graduate Studies in Theatre. In 2019 she received a McCalla Professorship for a new collective creation, A Sounding Line. Her recent dance collaborations include Far Away and Personal, a dance film with musician/composer Michael Reinhart and ENTRANCES with writer David Gagnon Walker and multimedia designer Tori Morrison from Strange Victory Performance. Rewriting Distance, her on-going research collaboration with Belgian dance dramaturg Guy Cools has been performed in 7 countries and 14 different cities www.rewritingdistance.com