Welcome the Stranger Within

Abstract

Welcome the stranger within is a short video danced poem which draws on embodied and poetic ways of inquiry to express the welcoming of all parts of oneself. Integrating contemporary dance and poetry, it is a site-specific performance taken on Denman Island in British Columbia, Canada. The performer, Celeste Nazeli Snowber, explores how one can have a call and response with the earth and open an embodied understanding through cultivating a relationship with body, land, water and what it means to be human.

Keywords:

• site-specific,
• embodied,
• dance,
• poetry,
• performance,
• body