her body as words
On Sunday, November 13th at 2:00 pm, her body as words will be presented as a continuous film and followed by talk-back with Peggy Baker at the Hamilton Conservatory of the Arts! Click here for tickets!
her body as words is a film and sound installation exploring female identity and physicality through 9 solos. Created collaboratively by Peggy Baker with renowned dance artists from across Canada.
Gestures of particularity. Of female identity. Specific. Linguistic. Urgent articulations and expressions bursting forth. Present. Exposed. Beings in full.
Peggy Baker’s her body as words (2020), is a sound and film installation that fragments and explodes notions of female identity as expressed by nine Canadian dance artists. Inspired by the 2009 translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, Baker entered into a deeply collaborative process involving personal conversations with the performers. Dancing the complexities of their lived identities, these artists offer gestural renderings touching on themes of race, gender expression, sexual orientation, sexual appetite, pregnancy, miscarriage, motherhood, disability, physical labor, and aging. her body as words was filmed by Jeremy Mimnagh and features sound design by Debashis Sinha.
Presentation History
August and September 2022 - Film and sound installation at Zentralbibliothek, Lesesaal in Dusseldorf, Germany as part of Internationale Tanzmesse 2022.
March 2022 - On Demand streaming presented by the Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York
Feb 2022 - Integrated exhibition on the large outdoor screens of Theatre Metropolitan Sura in the heart of downtown Buenos Aires, presented by Festival Internacional Buenos Aires
Sept 2021 - Integrated exhibition at Yonge-Dundas Square, presented by Fall for Dance North and ArtworxTO, sponsored by Yonge-Dundas Square, Outfront Media, and BMO Financial Group
a black and white trailer movie featuring nine solo dancers wearing black clothing in dim light.
concept, choreographic composition, direction:
Peggy Baker
video designer:
Jeremy Mimnagh
sound design / composition:
Debashis Sinha
Photography by Jeremy Mimnagh
Yonge-Dundas Square presentation, September 2021. Photography by Marlene Stirrett-Matson
