User:Dena davida

Dena Davida (b. 1949) is a dance performer, curator, educator and researcher who was raised in the USA in an Eastern-European family of artists, and immigrated to Canada in 1977. Co-founder of Québec's first dance presenting organization Tangente and the Festival international de nouvelle danse, she was a chargée de cours for 25 years in the Dance Department, and also earned her PhD in the programme Études et pratiques des arts, at the Université du Québec. She edited two anthologies: Fields in Motion: Ethnography in the worlds of dance (2011) and Curating Live Arts: Critical perspectives, essays and conversations in theory and practice (2018). She co-founded, and is currently managing editor of TURBA: The Journal for Global Practices in Live Arts Curation.