Performing ‘Live’

Panelists: Dakota Alcantara-Camacho, Emma Tibaldo, Richard Lee

Host: Andrew Scriver

About the Presenters

Dakota Alcantara-Camacho (guiya/yo’ña) believes in creativity as a record of interaction with the spirit realm. Exploring the overlap between integrity, ancestral life ways, true love, and accountability, guiya (they) activate inafa’maolek (Unity with Creation). Weaving through languages of altar-making, movement, film, music, and prayer, guiya generate moments of encounter with the universe. Yo’ña (their) work enacts spaces where multiple worldviews speak to each other to unearth embodied pathways towards collective liberation.

Emma Tibaldo (she/her) has been directing new Canadian plays since graduating from the National Theatre School directing program. In 2008 she became Artistic and Executive director of the national new creation centre Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal (PWM), where she has dramaturgically collaborated on numerous award winning plays. Emma was awarded the Elliott Hayes Award for outstanding achievement in Dramaturgy. She has just “finished” working on SKIN, a new performance piece with the interdisciplinary company The Bakery. She feeds her inner rock star by playing in the family band The Tibaldos.

Richard Lee (he/him) is a performer, creator, and educator based in Amiskwaciswâskahikan (Edmonton) working in contemporary dance and theatre. Recent online performance credits include Delay (Citadel Theatre); A Freckle for “Making Love with the Land” (Springboard Performance); The Disaster Show (Mile Zero Dance), and A Fun Night in with Lucy Darling, the Zoom-magic show that has garnered critical praise from theatre critics J. Kelly Nestruck and Liz Nicholls, as well as magicians Max Maven and David Copperfield himself.