Emma-Kate Guimond

Emma-Kate Guimond is formally trained in contemporary dance but her preferred medium is the slideshow. She gets paid to perform. Her performances are embodied, difficult, desperate, colorful, and funny. Using gesture, image, and text, she works with a spectrum of performative modes that ranges from unaware, to barely anything, to technical, to brutalist, to expressionistic, to dramatic⁠—in order to locate and relocate power and protagonism.

She has presented performances at Visualeyez Festival in Edmonton (2013), Mountain Standard Time in Calgary (2014, 2018), FADO Emerging artist series in Toronto (2014), as well as RIPA in Montreal (2016). From 2009-2017 she was co-director of WIVES collective, with whom she presented feeled (OFFTA, 2016) and ACTION MOVIE (Théâtre Lachapelle, 2017). Recent performances and exhibitions include ATTABLER (2ième porte à gauche, Agora de la danse, 2018), You (TOPO, 2019) and Sequence of events (Arprim, 2019).