Jennifer Mascall

<p>As an emerging choreographer, Jennifer Mascall was characterized as a maverick, a visionary, a radical re-visionary and "<em>the enfant terrible</em>&nbsp;of Canadian dance". Mascall's work has consistently fulfilled this promise,defying assumptions, intensely fascinated with body research. Works such as&nbsp;<em>The Shostakovich</em>, and&nbsp;<em>The Light At The End Of The Tunnel May Be Another Train Coming Toward You</em>, I<em>'ll Leave The Back Door Open</em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Housewerk</em>&nbsp;- all characteristically inventive, insightful, and witty - provoke (re) consideration of the relationship of movement to meaning. Other works,<em>The Brutal Telling</em>,<em>WhaT,?, Cathedral</em>,and&nbsp;<em>Make A Dance</em>, consider equally the relationship of words to movement to meaning.</p> <p>Jennifer Mascall's exuberantly prolific performance career began as a improviser and rapidly received international attention. Primary influences include Laban, Alexander, Cunningham. Paxton, T'ai Chi, New Music, and more recently Putnam and Bainbridge Cohen.</p> <p>Characteristics with which she has long been associated - originality, passionate inventor, catalyst - are also seen in such diverse undertakings (among many) as the initiation of GRID (1975), a collective for site-specific work; the collection and publishing of&nbsp;<em>FOOTNOTES</em>&nbsp;(1978), an iconoclastic sampler of choreographic notation methods by significant and wide-ranging choreograhic voices of the period;&nbsp; the founding with seven other independent artists of the collaborative EDAM (1982) and the formation of, Mascall Dance, where she has been Artistic Director since 1989.</p> <p>Mascall is also a skilled lecturer and teacher. Educational programs such as&nbsp;<em>Make A Dance</em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Homewerk</em>&nbsp;tour extensively in th school system and are considered highly effective bridges between contemporary dance and multilevel learning. Mascall's development of a teaching pedagogy for dance performers, influenced by the work of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, is a central strand of her artistic research. Jennifer Mascall's on going advocacy for dancers and the art of dance continues to inform her contributions to juries, boards, committees, and mentorships.</p>

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