{"id":4224,"date":"2022-11-17T21:32:10","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T21:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/montrealdanse.com\/?post_type=collaborateurs&#038;p=4224"},"modified":"2023-11-10T16:40:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T16:40:57","slug":"thea-patterson","status":"publish","type":"collaborateurs","link":"https:\/\/montrealdanse.com\/en\/people\/thea-patterson\/","title":{"rendered":"Thea Patterson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Originally from British Columbia, Thea Patterson is a Tiohti:\u00e1ke\/Montreal based choreographer, performer, and dance dramaturg. She has provided dramaturgical counsel for many independent choreographers including Andrew Turner, Nate Yaffe, Karen Fennel, Pam Tzang, Sasha Kleinplatz, Sarah Bild, Lois Brown, and Katie Ward.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Her early choreographic works include Rh<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">yming Couplets <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">(08), and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">A Soft Place to Fall<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\"> (06) which was made into a BravoFact film by Mouvement Perpetuel. From 2007 to 2015 she was dramaturg, and co-artistic director with Peter Trosztmer, on seven acclaimed stage works, including <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Eesti: Myths and Machines <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">(2011) which received mention as top dance works of the year by Le Voir, Montreal as well as installation and site-specific works \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">5 our of 6 Machines<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">\u201d (2012) (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">#Boxtape <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">(2014). An interest in collaborative models led to the co- founding of the collective The Choreographers (2007-2011) with Trosztmer, Katie Ward and Audr\u00e9e Juteau who went on to make several works together including <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Man and Mouse <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">(2008) and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Oh!Canada<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\"> (2011). During that time, Thea also co-choreographed with Trosztmer the multimedia work \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Norman: an homage to Norman McLaren<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">\u201d (2008) for Lemieux.Pilon.4Dart which toured extensively through Canada, USA, Asia, Europe and South America.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Thea\u2019s work often explores expanded choreographic methods through solo performances. This led to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">the dance that i cannot do<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\"> (2013) presented at, amongst others, Movement Research-The Judson Church and the Munich Dance Festival.\u00a0 In 2016, She completed her Masters at The Graduate School, DAS Choreography (Amsterdam) with the solo project <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">between the is and the could be<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\"> (2016) which explored emergent choreographic forms, and other methods for altering aspects of spectatorship. During this period, she was also an artist in residence at Montreal Danse. In 2018 and 2022 Thea was selected to participate in intensive choreographic residencies with dance icon Deborah Hay. Her work <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Silvering<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\"> (2020) was presented at Mile Zero Dance in Edmonton as one of the first ZOOM shows of the pandemic. Her new work <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Un-nevering <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">(currently in development) is a response to the loss of her partner Jeremy Gordaneer in 2021, has received residency support from Parbleux, Studio 303, La petites place des Art, and the CCOV and was presented at the OFFTA, Montreal in April 2023. Thea has several ongoing collaborations, as a dramaturg, and collaborator, choreographer and performer in Montreal, Portugal, Edmonton, and Newfoundland. As well, she is a SSHRC funded PhD candidate in Performance Studies at the University of Alberta and was Co-editor-in-chief of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">Intonations<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 300;\">, an online Graduate run journal from 2019-2021.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally from British Columbia, Thea Patterson is a Tiohti:\u00e1ke\/Montreal based choreographer, performer, and dance dramaturg. 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