Miki Mappin, co-founder, scenographer, dancer
2013 Memory, Back Alley Antics
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A complete CV can be found at www.mikimappin.com
I am a multidisciplinary artist, and my past informs my work as a socially engaged, collaborative, site-specific dance creator.
In 2009 choreographer Kyle Syverson and I founded KSAMB Dance Company. We have performed more than 30 original shows of dance based site-specific movement theatre. We were awarded an SAB Microgrant for our Time Lab project in 2018, a Dance Saskatchewan Creation Grant for the Time Shapers project and performance in 2019 and an SAB IA grant for To the Heart in 2020.
I began in 1980 with a collaborative art “happening” in Eston, Sask., which included a 50-foot tall wild oat made from empty Monsanto herbicide cans. Documentation of the event was selected for the Mendel Open Juried Exhibition of that year. In 1982 I was commissioned by the Saskatchewan Government to create a site-specific installation of 9 life-sized concrete figures and wooden benches in the TC Douglas Building in Regina (now the lobby of the MacKenzie Gallery). In 1983 I was awarded an SAB Project Grant for the sculpture installation, Tree Space, at the AKA Gallery in Saskatoon.
From 1983 to 2011, I designed sets, costumes, lighting and video for Persephone Theatre, 25th Street Theatre, Theatre Ecstasis and Tant per Tant in Canada and for the Centre Dramatic de la Generalitat de Catalunya, Teatre OM, and Els Joglars in Spain.
From 1990 to 2002 I specialized as theatre consultant. Projects included the National Theatre of Catalonia, and the Theatre Institute of Barcelona, for which, as member of the design team, I received the 2001 Premi Construmat Award. From 1999 to 2002 I worked with Stantec Architecture as consultant and designer for the renovations to the stage and dressing rooms of the Broadway Theatre in Saskatoon.
I developed and taught a post-secondary course on the history and function of performance space for the Theatre Institute of Barcelona from 1997 to 2000 .
In 1996 I began to work with digital media, collaborating with La Fura dels Baus (Barcelona) on Emerging Patterns, shown simultaneously in Regina and Saskatoon through an early broadband digital connection. Since that time I have created audio and video content for performances, dance videos and a 20-minute documentary, Transqueery, screened at Paved Arts in Saskatoon and the Queer City Cinema in Regina in 2013.
From 2005 until the present I have studied dance and movement, completing over 600 hours of professional training in Contact Improvisation, Modern, Ballet and Mime in Canada and Spain.
With Contradictions Collective; Karla Kloeble and Mitchell Larsen, I was awarded an SAB IA grant in 2016 for the creation and performance of the show Contradictions.
A complete CV can be found at www.mikimappin.com
I am a multidisciplinary artist, and my past informs my work as a socially engaged, collaborative, site-specific dance creator.
In 2009 choreographer Kyle Syverson and I founded KSAMB Dance Company. We have performed more than 30 original shows of dance based site-specific movement theatre. We were awarded an SAB Microgrant for our Time Lab project in 2018, a Dance Saskatchewan Creation Grant for the Time Shapers project and performance in 2019 and an SAB IA grant for To the Heart in 2020.
I began in 1980 with a collaborative art “happening” in Eston, Sask., which included a 50-foot tall wild oat made from empty Monsanto herbicide cans. Documentation of the event was selected for the Mendel Open Juried Exhibition of that year. In 1982 I was commissioned by the Saskatchewan Government to create a site-specific installation of 9 life-sized concrete figures and wooden benches in the TC Douglas Building in Regina (now the lobby of the MacKenzie Gallery). In 1983 I was awarded an SAB Project Grant for the sculpture installation, Tree Space, at the AKA Gallery in Saskatoon.
From 1983 to 2011, I designed sets, costumes, lighting and video for Persephone Theatre, 25th Street Theatre, Theatre Ecstasis and Tant per Tant in Canada and for the Centre Dramatic de la Generalitat de Catalunya, Teatre OM, and Els Joglars in Spain.
From 1990 to 2002 I specialized as theatre consultant. Projects included the National Theatre of Catalonia, and the Theatre Institute of Barcelona, for which, as member of the design team, I received the 2001 Premi Construmat Award. From 1999 to 2002 I worked with Stantec Architecture as consultant and designer for the renovations to the stage and dressing rooms of the Broadway Theatre in Saskatoon.
I developed and taught a post-secondary course on the history and function of performance space for the Theatre Institute of Barcelona from 1997 to 2000 .
In 1996 I began to work with digital media, collaborating with La Fura dels Baus (Barcelona) on Emerging Patterns, shown simultaneously in Regina and Saskatoon through an early broadband digital connection. Since that time I have created audio and video content for performances, dance videos and a 20-minute documentary, Transqueery, screened at Paved Arts in Saskatoon and the Queer City Cinema in Regina in 2013.
From 2005 until the present I have studied dance and movement, completing over 600 hours of professional training in Contact Improvisation, Modern, Ballet and Mime in Canada and Spain.
With Contradictions Collective; Karla Kloeble and Mitchell Larsen, I was awarded an SAB IA grant in 2016 for the creation and performance of the show Contradictions.
