Melissa Raymond

Choreographer

Melissa Raymond graduated from the Dance Department of Concordia University in 2007, and holds a Master’s degree in Urban Planning from Université de Montréal.

“My choreographic practice leans towards an urge to excavate memories, to look into what remains ingrained in the mind and the body long after the processes of repetition and performance. Seeing these remnants as latent choreographic heritage, and the process of excavating-extracting-activating them as a creative process, one directed by the desire to find, to document, to collect. This follows the groundwork of themes I first started to probe through two projects carried out while living in Puerto Rico: El Contorno de las Cosas (2008) and Movement of the Month (2011-2012). In different ways, both projects explored and built upon traces contained within the dancing body; the former taking the shape of a dance environment, while the latter could be seen as an active archive, through a process of resurfacing movements from past dance experiences.”