Choerography
One And The Same
Choerographers & Dancers: Sadie Segriff, Lexie Braden, Youkali Menard
(S)hiver Arts Festival - Febuary 2024
Photography: Perry Perry
Healing Reflections
Choerography by Sadie Segriff
Dancers: Emily Brooks, Emily Jones, Sadie Segriff
(S)hiver Arts Festival - Febuary 2023
Avaible Light Film Festival - Febuary 2023
Photography: Maggie Brook
In Relation
Presented by Off Course Footing at Yukon Arts Centre 2021
Original Music: Jeremy Parkin
Photography: Mikela Kruse
In Relation began as an endurance-based duet, and sprung from a desire to investigate inherent ties between Land and people, sun and moon, dancing body and dancing body, time and light, space and movement, performer and audience. With this work, we are asking: How can we acknowledge and explore the connection between these things? How can we exist in an active state of honoring these connections? How does movement change because of the body’s relationship to its surroundings?
In Relation was first presented as a four-hour endurance-based outdoor work. In August 2021, it was performed at the Yukon Arts Center outdoor amphitheater in Whitehorse, Yukon. The piece was also viewed virtually across Canada. This project was supported by a grant from the Great Yukon Summer Fund 2021 and a residency with the Yukon Arts Center
Insensate
Jenni House Artist Residency
Music: Driftnote
The name of the film is Insensate, which means “lacking physical sensation”. Currently, we are ingrained with the fear of touch due to Covid-19, and it will stay with us for generations to come. This piece explores human expression without physical connection using the gestures we learn and use on a daily basis. These gestures spread throughout our community and generations. It is important to share this because dance is in everything we do. A body is just as it is: a piece of art, beautiful and everything it needs to be in that moment. Insensate will dive into knowing who we are as humans, where we have come from and how we connect to others. Insensate version two was performed at the Jenni House in June 2021.
Frame of Reference
Riverside Arts Festival 2020
Performed on the Land of Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation.
Choreography: Sadie Segriff Dancer: Sadie Segriff Photography: Devon Berquist Music: All-Boy All-Girl by Arthur Russell, Twilit by Clams Casino Videography: Dan Sokolowski
Sadie’s solo piece, Frame of Reference, explores her connection to people around her and her natural environment. Sadie has been exploring how people see her, strangers or close family. Through this work she wanted to explore connection to the land while respecting the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation, the original people who live and occupy this Traditional Territory. Personally, Sadie explored reflection, silence, confusion, and where her voice fits into the issues of injustice in our world today. Sadie’s hope was that the audience was able to identify with her piece and reflect about themselves internally as well as the people and land around them.
A Sense of Me
Presented at Choreographic Works 2020
Performed on the Land of Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples.
Choreography: Sadie Segriff Dancers: Barbara Simms, Danielle Cooper, Courtney Taticek, Justine Sanker, Maddie Friel, Felica Maguire, Celina D’Orazio Photography: Maxim Luca Bortnowski Music: Walking Home by Jermey Parkin
A Sense of Me explored memory, childhood, curiosity and growing up. Each dancer seen as a memory behind the dancer in the chair. Sadie worked with the dancers to integrate their memories that were then used as text though-out the piece.
Keep at Arms Length
Choreographic Works 2020
Performed on the Land of Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples.
Choreography: Sadie Segriff Dancers: Sadie Segriff & Julia Zanon Photography: Maxim Luca Bortnowski Music: Luftbobler (Trevor Jackson Remix) by Dinos Chapman
Keep at Arms Length was a duet created by Sadie in collaboration with Julia. They played off the intensity of eye contact, symmetry and circles though out the piece. The duet has no contact until the end of the piece. There is also a play on opposites fire and flowers, this was also a representation of Sadie and Julia as individuals.
Piece Of
Park Dances - Off Course Footing
Performed on the Land of Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples.
Choreography: Sadie Segriff Dancers: Dawson Llyod, Barbara Simms, Sadie Segriff, Gabrielle Lowe, Katia Puritch, Sofía Ontiveros
Piece Of was Sadie’s first piece, during Off Course Footing’s show Park Dances. The piece explored the use of our bodies for the sound scape. It included vocal improvisation and sensory movement exploration.
