2020

Dissertation: “Scoring Connective (T)issues: Bodily Experiments and the Affective Entanglements between Fascia, A 21st Century Emerging Human Biology, and Dance Improvisation Practices”

Biodynamic Craniosacral Practicioner, Fascia Researcher

Kevin O’Connor (he/him) is a multidisciplinary artist working as a choreographer, dancer, improviser, circus artist and installation artist from Ontario, Canada and now based in the Bay area. He is involved in a decade-long artistic collective exploring participatory de-colonizing performances within polluted watersheds in Ontario. Over the last few years, he has worked with NAKA dance in Oakland, Shakiri and Skywatchers in the Bay Area, Oncogrrrls feminist art collective in Spain, Nita Little, and collaborated with Inuit hunter and designer Paulette Metuq on a project in Nunavut in the Canadian Arctic.  He is currently working on an improvisation piece called TRY with Ishmael Houston Jones, Keith Hennessey, Jose Abad, Snowflake Towers and the artist Swoon.  He has been learning with the Axis Syllabus community for over a decade and is a biodynamic CranioSacral practitioner. He completed an MFA in choreography and is currently finishing a Ph.D. in performance studies at UC Davis. He is working at the intersection of arts, sciences, practice-as-research and improvisation theory and practice. His research examines anatomies, body performance capacities, interventions and imaginations in relation to science studies, including the material-bio-cultural tissue called fascia.