Deanna Peters/Mutable Subject







Working out of Gold Saucer, a shared studio on xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh and səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ territories (Vancouver), I create, perform and DIY produce for stage, club, gallery, web and print.

Credited artists/companies are so-called Vancouver-based unless otherwise noted.

Please see my current and past projects, including:

not knot naught
The Enormous Room
VLDH!
Something between my face and your face is always interesting
Homing
Orange
Charégraphie
When I look at the camera, I'm looking at you
Pocket
"solo"
META
Dancers Playing Basketball
Cut Away
Small Itch
Itch
Structure Tone
NEW RAW

I've co-authored projects with:

dance artists Samuelle Auclair, Victor Vân Tran and their son Luca Tran
performance artist Emma-Kate Guimond (Montreal)
dance artist Pam Tzeng (Calgary)
aka collective w/ dance artists Jeanette Kotowich and Victor Vân Tran
dance artist Less San Miguel (Winnipeg)
artist, writer, educator Randy Lee Cutler, physicist Jess H. Brewer and film artist Lindsay McIntyre
multimedia artist, musician Ahmed Khalil
dance artist, writer Alexa Mardon
dance artist James Gnam
filmmaker Aya Garcia
dance artist, basketball player Katie Lowen
composer, musician, instrument builder Paul Paroczai
drummer Ben Brown
dance artist Justine A. Chambers
drummer Stuart Sproule

In addition to grants, since 2011, I'm recipient of awards and residencies from:

LEÑA Artist Residency (Galiano Island)
plastic orchid factory Left of Main Residency
Salon58 Artist in Residence (Marsoui, QC)
Western Canada Music Awards, nominee/Visual Media Composer of the Year
Yellowhouse Art Centre Residency (Galiano Island)
Dumb Instrument Dance Morrow Residency
plastic orchid factory REMIX Residency
LEÑA Artist Residency (Galiano Island)
8 Days VIII (Nova Scotia)
Young Lungs Dance Exchange Artist in Residence (Winnipeg)
What Lab Artist In Residence
8 Days VII (Newfoundland)
Dans Brabant International Choreographers Week (Holland)
The Dance Centre Special Projects
8 Days VI (Toronto)
Fiver International Dance Film Festival Award (Spain)
Simon Fraser University–School for Contemporary Arts Artist in Residence
Iris Garland Emerging Choreographer Award
An Exact Vertigo Artist In Residence
EDAM Dance Choreographic Series
The Dance Centre Artist In Residence
Vancouver Mayor's Arts Award for Emerging Dance Artist

As well as DIY producing, since 2003 my projects have been presented with:

An Exact Vertigo / Unit/Pitt Projects
American Dance Festival (South Carolina)
Art For Impact
Arts Umbrella
BLiNK/Leaky Heaven Circus
BLOOM
Brief Encounters
Canadian Society For Dance Studies
Cinedans (Holland)
The Dance Centre
Dance In Vancouver
Dance: Made in/Fait au Canada (Toronto)
Dance Saskatchewan (Saskatoon, Prince Albert, Regina)
Dancing on the Edge
Dances For A Small Stage
Dazibao (Montreal)
Digital Dramaturgy Initiave (nation-wide)/Playwrights Theatre Centre
Live Wednesdays @ The Emerald
Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Expanse Festival (Edmonton)
Festival of Recorded Movement
Firehall Arts Centre
Fiver (Spain)
Fox Cabaret
Free Flow (Saskatoon)
FURIES (Marsoui, QC)
Gallery Series 258/Gallery Jones
Here To Go
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Leaning Out of Windows
Left of Main
Modus Operandi
Morrow
New Dance Horizons (Regina)
New Works
plastic orchid factory
Public Energy (Peterborough)
PushOFF
Roundhouse
Series 8:08 (Toronto)
SFU School for the Contemporary Arts
Shooting Gallery Performance Series
Skinny Fat Jacks
Small File Media Festival
Summerworks (Toronto)
Tara Cheyenne Performance
Twelve Minutes Max
Vancouver Art Gallery
Vancouver International Dance Festival
Velocity Dance Center (Seattle)
What Lab
Yellowhouse Art Centre (Galiano Island, BC)
Young Lungs Dance Exchange (Winnipeg)

As a collaborator and performer, since 2003 I've worked with artists from dance, theatre, music, film and visual art:

Barbara Bourget
Heidi Bunting
Peter Chin (Toronto)
Bill Coleman (Toronto)
Co. Erasga/Alvin Tolentino
Daniel Conrad
Paul-André Fortier (Montreal)
Emmalena Fredriksson
Vanessa Goodman
Karen Jamieson Dance
Kokoro Dance Theatre
Jeanette Kotowich
Ziyian Kwan
LINK Dance
Diego Maranan
Mascall Dance
Tanya Marquardt
Layla Marcelle Mrozowski/The Party
Meredith Bates/Vancouver Improvised Arts Society
Roxanne Nesbitt
plastic orchid factory
Julia Sasso (Toronto)
Daisy Thompson
Helen Walkley

Since 2008, I DIY produce shows, parties, residencies and workshops:

a house party
aka Spring Social
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LOVE HOUSE
House Dance Intensive w/ Sekou Heru
CADA/West members unconference
Kisiskâciwan
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PARTÉS DANCE DJ
Mellow Residencies (with/for several artists)
interplay_2021
interplay_2019
Party HD
Holiday Boogies
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Amateur DJ Party Party Party
DIY@DIV
interplay_2017
House Dance Fridays
House Dance Mondays
Amanda Acorn’s multiform
Daisy Thompson’s Cap Choreo
interplay_2016
Saucer Shaker
SummerWorksVancouverShowPartySendOff
DOTE Closing Night Party
Sask Social #3
Performing Arts Curation Meetups
Summer Sask Social
Sask Social
Working Class 2010–12
Way Out West 2011
Here To Go 3
Here To Go 2
BLOOM 2009
Here To Go
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A dance teacher since I was 16 in my hometown on Treaty 6 territory (Saskatoon), I've taught dance in various contexts, been commissioned to create with/for several youth companies, and led seminars at post-secondary institutions:

Arts Umbrella
Co. Erasga
Contemporary Technique Series
Dancer Transition Resource Centre
Dance Saskatchewan
Emily Carr University of Art + Design
FURIES (Marsoui, QC)
Goh Ballet
Good Women Dance Collective (Edmonton)
Harbour Dance Centre
Helix Youth Company (Parksville, BC)
Kokoro Dance Theatre
Made In BC Youth Initiative
MAMM: Music and Movement Mondays
Manitoba Association of Dance Educators
Mascall Dance
Mile Zero Dance (Edmonton)
Mirror Dance Program
Modus Operandi
Morning Practice Online
New Dance Horizons (Regina)
New Works
Polymer Dance
SFU School for the Contemporary Arts
Summerworks (Toronto)
The Story of Force and Motion
True Colours/Triple Heat (Courtenay, BC)
Windemere Secondary School
Working Class/Training Society of Vancouver
Young Lungs Dance Exchange (Winnipeg)
Youth Ballet and Contemporary Dance of Saskatchewan (Regina)

I've benefitted greatly from mentorship with:

Barbara Bourget
Heidi Bunting
Paul-André Fortier (Montreal)
Sekou Heru (NYC)
Martin Inthamoussù (Uruguay)
Ziyian Kwan
Jennifer Mascall
Helen Walkley

I've worked as mentor, outside eye, rehearsal director and/or production assistant with/for:

Ashley Johnson (Regina)
Christy Stoeten (Toronto)
Diego Romero
erψn temp3st (Edmonton)
Full Circle: First Nations Performance
Jeanette Kotowich
Ziyian Kwan
Justine A. Chambers & Josh Hite
Mascall Dance
Modus Operandi
Rachel Maddock
Savage & Samuelle
Simon Fraser University–Dance Program
Punit Singh
Victor Vân Tran

It's all dance: mutablesubject.ca