Mireille Rosner creates performances weaving somatic and ritual transformation in relationship to objects and nature. She is compelled to think with her body, to move as a way of being in the world, and to root creative expression in who she is and where she comes from. Her work seeks ways to be on the earth in fluid alignment, without staking claim.
Biography
Mireille Rosner creates performances weaving somatic and ritual transformation in relationship to objects and nature.
Her work is influenced by somatic dance, Expressive Arts Therapy, European ritual dance traditions, fibre arts, performance art, gardening, and permaculture. Animal and plant life, natural cycles, landscapes (real and imagined), and memories of prairie meadows guide her practice.
She has worked on many projects and with several collaborators, both in Canada and abroad, in community, residencies, solo and in collectives. Highlights include: Dance Troupe Practice (Pandora Park Field House), Heidi Nagtegaal/Hammock Residency, Sharon Kallis/Terroir Project, Karen Jamieson Dance/Carnegie Dance Troupe, All Bodies Dance Project, Graffiti Research Lab (Canada & Germany), Incheon Art Platform (South Korea), the memelab with Jesse Scott, and Hunger Performance Festival (Berlin).
She studied contemporary dance at MainDance, is a certified Expressive Arts Therapist (Langara College), has a B.A. in Human Geography (University of British Columbia), and a certificate in permaculture design.
Together with her daughter and husband, Mireille lives on the unceded Indigenous Land of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam First Nations (Vancouver, B.C.).
Artist Statement
I am compelled to think with my body, to move as a way of being in the world, to connect with who I am and where I come from, to be on the earth in alignment without staking claim.
My artwork wrestles with transformation: decay and growth, constant and incremental change. Through labour, the work of personal transformation, embodiment, alignment, responsibility & care. Through rest, letting go, allowing presence, allowing new growth and healing, giving over to the elements and the gentle power of the earth to hold and transform.
I am inspired by bird song, fresh soil, the ocean, streams, meadows, wild flowers. Dirty hands from tending plants. Everyday objects, household tasks. Construction, labour, architecture. Miniatures. Cats. Stories of resilience, tales of healing. Resistance, revolution, justice. The moon in all her phases. Sitting quietly. The beauty and messiness of struggle. Hope as it is found in the depths.
My practice is grounded in an ongoing search for ways that I can create with presence, alignment and compassion. I am focused on working in a fluid intermodal way in deep connection with the land, drawing on somatic techniques in body and voice, drawing and writing techniques, my personal history and background and activating sources that engage the body as a site for unlearning and change.
My steady practice is to unravel familial and settler (French, German and Austrian) patterns and bring forward creative and transformational actions through the movement of embodied image and natural elements, without laying claim or ownership of the land I am on.
Artwork is the way I can speak without words, a language of its own. There is meaning when I can find the deepest point of resonance as it speaks through my actions, and as I embody an image or become an agent for the transformation of image in material form.
As I perform, I am living the art work, my body and being committed to presence with earth, materials and intention. This is a way of being with. Being with my inquiry. Being with my body. Being with an image that has come to me. Living with these intentions and being with them towards expression is a language I need to speak to feel whole.
mireillekatrinarosner at gmail dot com