Angie Cheng and James Gnam explore the nature of legacy in dance, re-framing questions, concerns and aesthetics of another generation within the context of the present

In 2014, Tedd Robinson shared nearly four decades of dance archives with six choreographers from across Canada. The process happened at Tedd’s farm in Quyon, Quebec with an understanding that dance is an oral and kinaesthetic tradition. The objective was to move Tedd’s archives from DVD/VHS and into the bodies and imaginations of another generation of dance artists. The end result was FACETS, which premiered at the National Arts Centre in May 2015. But, for Tedd, the legacy of the work was not in the final showing but in how the conversations, impulses and memories lived on in the creative practices of the dancers who shared the process with him. where this lives now is a continuation of this conversation…