Aimée Dawn Robinson

Aimée (at left) and Josh Rutter preparing for the festival Dance Hakushu 2008 (Hakushu, Japan).
Photo by Asher Woodworth.

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Aimée Dawn Robinson is an improvising dancer, musician, gardener, writer and visual artist. She has performed, studied and taught dance in Canada, the United States, Malaysia and Japan. With Barbara Lindenberg, Aimée co-founded Darling Contemporary Dance, and is the director of the multi-disciplinary performance series, A Month of Sundays.

Aimée has performed with improvising musicians, songwriters and composers including Martin Arnold, Jennifer Castle, Eric Chenaux, Nick Fraser, Kurt Newman, The Reveries and Doug Tielli. While she has danced with, and for, choreographers such as Terrill Maguire, Viv Moore, Ame Henderson, Motaz Kabbani and Seika Boye, Aimée most often improvises solo as mother drift. She has been performing installments of her ongoing dance series, mother drift dances to the songs in her head, since 2003. Recently, she performed with Small Wooden Shoe in Dedicated to the Revolutions.

Aimée holds her Master’s of Arts from the Department of Dance, York University. Her current research explores the radical political potentials of body, cultural and personal memory and forgetting in dance, specifically in experimental improvising, butoh and Canadian Aboriginal dance. Aimée has participated in butoh workshops with artists such as Yoshito Ohno, Yukio Waguri, Joan Laage and SU-EN. She spent the summer of 2008 in Hakushu (Japan) farming and studying dance on Body Weather Farm with her hero, Min Tanaka.