Performing Artist
Welcome! I'm Jocelyn. Thanks for stopping by.
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I'm a contemporary dance artist by training, but I always knew that my practice would expand to include more than that. I'm now also a puppeteer, mask performer and avid interdisciplinary collaborator currently based in Mohkinstis Calgary (previously Toronto and London, UK). My work weaves exaggerated fictional characters, grotesque imagery, and (often live) music into eccentric feminist tapestries, all in the name of unbridled artistic expression.
Biography ​
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Hailing from the rolling foothills of Mohkinstis Calgary, Canada, Jocelyn Mah is a mixed-race contemporary dance artist, puppeteer and interdisciplinary collaborator.
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Her multi-disciplinary practice has led to professional creations and performances with independent artists and companies based in Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton and London, UK, including with Tia Kushniruk, James Watson, Elaine Weryshko, Catherine Hayward, Michael Menegon and The Sound of Movement, Daniel Pelton, Long Grass Studio, Cloudsway Dance Theatre, Calgary Animated Objects Society, Canadian Academy of Mask and Puppetry, Ghost&John and more.
Jocelyn’s work has been presented across Canada as well as in the UK and Europe, at The SummerWorks Performance Festival, Dance Ontario’s Dance Weekend, Springboard’s Fluid Fest, Dance Made In Canada, EDge on Tour, The Alberta Ballet School, The International Festival of Animated Objects, Alberta Dance Theatre, Calgary Folk Music Festival, and Kaeja’s Winddown Dance, among many others.
Jocelyn is a graduate of Dance Arts Institute (The School of Toronto Dance Theatre) and holds her Master of Arts in Contemporary Dance Performance from The London Contemporary Dance School (London, UK), with her thesis focusing on the relationship between music and dance in authentic and vernacular jazz forms.
Full CV available upon request.
