Artist-researcher working at the intersection of dance and
improvisation, body installation, visual poetry, collaborative
dramaturgy, text composition and performance art. Interested in
co.creation and movement scores as relational study Caro
cultivates rehearsal as method to ignite inquiry and connect
people to questions that matter while crafting performance
pieces.
Her work insists, since the late 90’s, on devising collaborative
actions around touchy matters. Centering on cancer and trans
feminism, in 2011, founded the performance project oncogrrrls.
Touched by toxicities and curious about multispecies intimacies,
she is currently involved in Scoring Cow (a dance-creation with
cows) in collaboration with Kevin O’connor and in cosensing, an
emerging platform for multispecies collaborative art actions
training togetherness in damaged worlds.
Holds an MA in communication with a specialization in dance for
social change (Ohio University) and is currently finishing her
PhD in Performance Studies at University of California, Davis,
focusing on Practice as Research. Her dissertation
on.co-creations explores rehearsal as collaborative tool with
potential to unsettle oncological relations.
Her work with oncogrrrls can be seen at: wordpress.oncogrrrls.com
Doctoral students Caro Novella and Kevin O’Connor will
participate in Dance Area Talk hosted by the School for the
Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. Novella and
O’Connor’s presentation, Practicing Bodily Relations
Otherwise: Improvisation Methods for Engaging Health, Science and
Social Justice, will be presented on March 12 at 12 p.m.
PST.
