CV, amelia ehrhardt

SELECTED WORKS AND PRODUCTIONS

2024 | MVS thesis exhibition | Art Museum at the University of Toronto | group show 2023 | Junior Prom | North Borden Building, University of Toronto | group show
2023 | the world-building of dance-making | Likely General Gallery | solo show and performance 2022 | pleasant reckoning | solo creation period, supported by the CCA and TAC
2021 | untitled solos | performance works for Longest Way Round is the Shortest Way Home, cur. Arts Assembly. ArtWorx TO 2021
2021 | untitled work for zoom | solo, performance, That’s So Gay, cur. Syrus Marcus Ware
2020 | plain nature public mourning | solo, performed by Matilda Cobanli, SEAD, Austria
2019 | plain nature public mourning | solo, self-produced, Collective Space, Toronto
2017 | NO CONTEXT | solo, Mile Zero Dance, Edmonton, Alberta
2016 | NO CONTEXT | solo, SummerWorks Performance Festival
2016 | Traditional Dance ...; group work, OFFTA, Montréal
2015 | NO CONTEXT | solo, cur. Nomadic Curatorial Collective, GBC and The Citadel
2012 | untitled work | collaboration with Jonathan Adjemian. A Month of Sundays. Cur. Aimée Dawn Robinson. Halo Halo Village.
2009 | widely acknowledged likenesses | solo. Cur. David Hanes. Deleon White Gallery
2009 | untitled work| with Cara Spooner and Alicia Grant, Extermination XI. former Kodak site.

CURATION

2015-2019 | Curator: Dancemakers Centre for Creation
2015 | SummerWorks Performance Festival. Curating Producer of inaugural Dance Series. 2014 - Present | Flowchart Modular Performance Projects. Founder/Curator
2013 - 2015 | Toronto Dance Community Love-In: Lover/Co-Artistic Director

SELECTED INTERPRETATION

2022 | Bodies in Urban Spaces | chor. Willi Dorner with Esther Baio, The Bentway, Toronto
2022 | Dancers Playing Basketball: Nogojiwanong Edition | Group work by Deanna Peters and Katie Lowen, Erring at King George, Peterborough Public Energy.
2014 | Choreographed Puppet | Reanimation of 1976 performance work by Suzy Lake. Art Gallery of Ontario, First Thursdays.
2014 | Common Fate | Group work by Zeesy Powers. SummerWorks Live Art Series, The Theatre Centre Incubator Space.
2013 | not two, not one...Old and Young and Reckless Together | Commissioned duet by Julia Sasso, with Danielle Baskerville, Dancemakers.
2010 | Polyhymnia Muses, Young & Old & Reckless Together. | Solo by Carol Anderson. Dancemakers Centre for Creation.

RESIDENCIES and FELLOWSHIPS

2017 - PRESENT | Annual self-directed residencies at Artscape Gibraltar Point
2017 | danceWEB award, lifelongburning, scholarship for attendance at ImPulsTanz festival 2016 | 8 Days: A Gathering of Canadian Choreographers: Artscape Gibraltar Point.
2016 | Toronto Arts Council/The Banff Centre, Cultural Leaders Lab fellowship
2016 | Creation residency at Studio 303: Collaboration with Liz Peterson.
2015 | Traditional Dance ...| [group] Toronto Dance Theatre Creation Residency
2015 | Traditional Dance... | [group] HATCH performance residency, Harbourfront Centre Toronto

FORMAL EDUCATION & TRAINING

Influential teachers and mentors include Janet Panetta, Alice Chauchat, Ame Henderson, Syrus Marcus Ware, Elder Corleigh Powderface and Elder Duke Redbird
2022 - 2024 | Masters of Visual Studies, Studio Stream. University of Toronto, Daniels Faculty. Thesis supervisor Prof. Zachary Blas. (currently underway)
2009 - 2012 | York University. Honours Bachelors of Arts in Dance Studies, specialization in Pro- duction and Practice-Based Studies. Equivalent of a minor in Philosophy.
2008 | George Brown College. Diploma in Dance Performance Studies.

SELECTED TEACHING (ACADEMIC AND TECHNICAL), RESEARCH RELATED WORK

2023 | Tutorial Assistant, JAV 200: Introduction to Critical Theory, Prof. Luis Jacob
2023 | Research Assistant, Prof. Syrus Marcus Ware, McMaster University
2023 | Tutorial Assistant (Guest), JAV 130 - Visual Strategies.
2022 | Tutorial Assistant, JAV 200: Introduction to Critical Theory, Prof. Luis Jacob.
2016 - 2019 | Dancemakers Centre for Creation: Adult Beginner Contemporary Dance 2016-17 | Guest Instructor, York University Department of Dance (Fall and Winter terms) 2017 | Workshop with Young Lungs Dance Exchange, Winnipeg, MB.

2017 | Good Women Dance Collective Company Class, Edmonton, AB. 2012 | Research Assistant, Prof. Penelope Reed-Doob, York University

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

2021 | Canadian Theatre Review, University of Toronto Press. Is “dearth” a little or a lot? a con- versation with Jennifer Goodwin, Cathy Gordon, and Amelia Ehrhardt.
2018 | The Dance Current. In Conversation: Recreating vs. Representing: An intersectional dia- logue about gendered violence onstage. With Roshanak Jaberi, Alexa Mardon, and Lee Su-Feh. 2016 | Running With Concepts, Blackwood Gallery/University of Toronto Mississauga. Working in (Proximity to) Dance; presentation with Fabien Maltais-Bayda.

2012 | Dance contributor to Offerings Magazine; previews on new works by Andréa de Keijzer, Ame Henderson, and Barbara Lindenberg
2012 | Canadian Society for Dance Scholars bi-annual conference: Works Cited: On Mirror Neu- rons and the Impossibility of Originality

2011 | Double Double Land; Anne Terese de Keersmaeker vs. Beyonce: Guest Lecture and film screening in MOVIE NIGHT series
2010 | “Dance Class: Lecture/Context/Youtube” - presentation in speaker series at The White House Studio Project

GRANTS, AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS

2023 | SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship
2022 | University of Toronto Fellowship
2022 | University of Toronto David Bueller Memorial Scholarship
2020 | Canada Council for the Arts | Explore and Create
2019 | Toronto Arts Council | Long-term project grant
2018 | Canada Council for the Arts | Explore and Create
2017 | Canada Council for the Arts | Explore and Create
2013 | Canada Council for the Arts: Professional Development Grant
2013 | Ontario Arts Council: Dance Initiatives
2012 | Toronto Arts Council: Grants to Dance Professionals
2012 | York University, Russell Norman Gladstone Memorial Award for mature students 2011 | York University, Grant Strate Memorial Award for excellence in studio and studies 2010 | York University: Spedding Memorial Scholarship for excellence in choreography

a. portia ehrhardt is a dancer, choreographer, and multidisciplinary artist based eternally in Toronto. A recent graduate of a Masters in Visual Studies at the University of Toronto, their work bounces between dance, animal studies, and science fiction, and manifests as mixed media paintings, performance scores, and writing. Their work has been performed and supported across Canada and internationally: notable engagements include OFFTA (Montréal), SEAD (Salzburg), Mile Zero Dance (Edmonton), and the Art Gallery of Ontario. Amelia’s choreographic practice is deeply influenced by their work as an interpreter, and they have performed in works by Susie Burpee, Willi Dorner, Julia Sasso, Menaka Thakkar, and Suzy Lake. a was the Curator of Dancemakers Centre for Creation from 2015-2019 and is the founder of Flowchart Performance Projects. They were a 2017 danceWEB recipient and a 2016 Toronto Arts Council Leadership Lab fellow. a is also a practicing counseling Astrologer with a private practice.