Student
Anna Vigeland is a doctoral student in Concordia’s INDI program, where her FRQSC-supported research is driven by overlapping interests in oral history, circus histories, memory, performance-making, and translation. She began her PhD after close to 20 years in the circus field, graduating from Montréal’s National Circus School in 2007 and working by turns as performer, choreographer, dramaturgy collaborator, cultural worker, and translator for circuses. Drawn to experimentation and crossovers between genres, she’s also co-developed and presented devised, interdisciplinary performance collaborations in Bulgaria, Serbia, Norway, Germany, France, Italy, Greece, the US, and Québec. Her research and projects have been supported by TCG Global Connections, the International Theatre Institute-Germany, l’Observatoire des médiations culturelles, a Bread Loaf Katharine Bakeless Nason scholarship, a Carolyn and Brian Neysmith Graduate Scholarship, le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and the Canada Council for the Arts, among others.
