Henry Daniel | Simon Fraser University

Background as an actor with Derek Walcott's Trinidad Theatre Workshop and as a dancer with Astor Johnson's Repertory Dance Theatre of Trinidad and Tobago; soloist with the José Limón Dance Company of New York; dancer, choreographer, theatre and performance lecturer in Germany and the UK; Artistic Director of Full Performing Bodies, Henry Daniel is an Associate Professor of Dance and Performance Studies at SFU Contemporary Arts in Vancouver, Canada and lead researcher for Transnet Transdisciplinary Research Network for Performance and Technology. He attended the Boston Conservatory of Music and the Juilliard School as a dancer and has an MA in Dance Studies from City University The Laban Centre, London, and a Ph.D. from the Bristol University Department of Drama: Theatre , Film, Television in the UK. His impressive track record on the international scene has led and continues to lead to advances in cultural knowledge by bringing to bear the perspectives and skills of the artist/scholar. Through his collaborations with researchers from the fields of science and engineering, he enables and contributes to technological innovation.
His latest choreographic work Imprint II, with composer Owen Underhill and the Turning Point Ensemble for the SFU Woodward's Inaugural Program, is a daring, site-specific work for dancers, large music ensemble and telepresence technology. It explores the resonance of cultural artifacts and stories as transmitted from place-to-place, time-to-time, and person-to-person.

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Imprint II (2010) is a daring, site-specific work for dancers, large music ensemble and telepresence technology. It explores the resonance of cultural artifacts and stories as transmitted from place-to-place, time-to-time, and person-to-person. Music by Owen Underhill is paired with Henry Daniel’s spectacular combination of modern technology and movement".