Dana Michel, the 2019 Winner of the Live Art Prize presents a new work at the 2021 ANTI Festival

Media release 8.4.2021

Dana Michel, the 2019 Winner of ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art, is currently creating a new work to be premiered at ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival taking place between 14th and 19th September 2021 in Kuopio, Finland.

VANESSA VECTOR WILLIAM DODGER is a live film project by the Canadian Michel and Tracy Maurice. Due to the pandemic situation, the film will be shot and created entirely in Canada. ANTI Festival will host the premiere of the film and an Artist Talk with Dana Michel in Kuopio during the festival in September. Read Michel’s reflections on the project here (link)!

Dana Michel is an internationally renowned, award-winning live artist whose works interact with the expanded fields of improvisation, choreography, sculpture, comedy, hip-hop, cinematography, techno, poetry, psychology, dub and social commentary to create a centrifuge of experience. In 2019, she was awarded the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art; the prize jury states on her work:

”Dana Michel makes work in order to see better and know better. —
Everything matters, everything sounds, everything vibrates into our shared experience.”

Working group & Production

Created by Dana Michel & Tracy Maurice. Dana Michel is an associated artist of Par B.L.eux.

Produced by the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art, organised by ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival, in collaboration with Par B.L.eux.

Funded by the Saastamoinen Foundation.

Dana Michel is the 2019 Winner of ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art.

For more information, contact Festival Manager Elisa Itkonen, elisa@antifestival.com, +358 50 305 2005.