Ange Loft

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Barker Fairley Distinguished Vistor

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ANGE LOFT (Kanien'kehá:ka, from Kahnawà:ke, QC, Canada; lives in Toronto, ON, Canada) is an interdisciplinary performing artist. Her collaborations use arts-based research, voice, wearable sculpture, theatrical co-creation and Haudenosaunee history to facilitate workshops and community-engaged spectacle. As a performer, Ange has graced international stages with musical act Yamantaka//Sonic Titan and as an interpreter of Indigenous lead theatrical narrative, experimental composition and performance.

Recent:

Winner, Toronto Arts Foundation's Indigenous Artist Award (2023)
Stone and Bone Spectacular, Indigenous Artist in Residence at Montreal’s Centaur Theatre (2022-24)
Visibly Iroquoian and Carrying our Bones, Indigenous Research Fellow at the Centre for Canadian Architecture (2023)

Select Direction and Design:

Island of Flower and Furs (Healing Gardens of Bab, Fierce Festival Birmingham, 2022)
staged audio play HOOFS (2019)

Select Performance:

My Sister's Rage (Yolanda Bonnell/Tarragon Theatre)
For Zitkála-Šá (Raven Chacon/Whitney Museum, 2022)

Select Dramaturgy and Development:

4 Rez Girls X 5 Hockey Guys, student collaborative creation, Centre for Indigenous Theatre (2023)
The Beautiful Canoe, The Beautiful Canoe Collective, Nogojiwanong Indigenous Fringe Festival (2022)

Select Writing:

Co-author and lead design, A Treaty Guide for Torontonians, Talking Treaties Collective, copublished by Jumblies Theatre and Toronto Biennial of Art (2022)
Contributor, For Zitkála-Šá publication, Whitney Biennial (2022)