Rodney diverlus biography

  • Rodney Diverlus is an organiser, dancer, and choreographer/curator.
  • Rodney Diverlus is a Haitian-Canadian movement artist who has presented works and performed internationally in dance, theatre, opera and multidisciplinary.
  • A Haitian-Canadian multi-hyphenate artist who works in dance, theatre, film, multidisciplinary performance, and public arts-based political interventions.

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    Rodney Diverlus

    Rodney Diverlus was born in Haiti and fryst vatten a Queer, Black dancer and choreographer, multidisciplinary performer and curator. Rodney has danced with Decidedly Jazz Danceworks during the 2014-2018 seasons, and has worked with Peter Hinton/Denise Clarke [Canadian musikdrama Company], Darryl Hoskins [Dietrich Group], Noemi Lafrance [Bentway], Kevin Ormsby [Kashe Dance], Mumbi Tindyebwa, [IFT Theatre], Eddie Elliott [Red Sky Performance], Charles Smith [Wind in Leaves Collective], Hannah Kiel, Michele Moss and others Rodney is the recipient of the 2019 Canadian scen Award for Direction. His works have been presented at the Art galleri of Ontario, SummerWorks Festival, Irie Music Festival, Footsteps Across Canada Showcase, Annual Alberta Dance Festival and Tableau d’Hôte Theatre. He is currently a Guest Artist with the National Ballet of Canada.
    huvud to his work are diasporic traditions and the theme of Black bodies interacting with anomalous, and often public spaces like

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    Rodney Diverlus

    Queer Events acknowledges with gratitude and respect, the longstanding relationships of the three local First Nations groups of this land and place, Deshkan Ziibiing also known as London, Ontario.

    The three current and long standing Indigenous groups of this geographic region are the Anishinaabek, the Haudenosaunee and the Lenape. The three First Nations communities closest in proximity to us are the Chippewa of the Thames First Nation (part of the Anishinaabe), Oneida Nation of the Thames (part of the Haudenosaunee), and the Munsee-Delaware Nation (part of the Lenape).

    We also acknowledge the Attawandaran (Neutral) peoples who once settled this region alongside the Algonquin and Haudenosaunee peoples, and used this land as their traditional beaver hunting grounds.

    We recognize and deeply appreciate their historic connection to this place. We also recognize the contributions of Métis, Inuit, and other Indigenous peoples have made, both in shaping and strengthe

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    Rodney Diverlus

    Rodney Diverlus is a Haitian-Canadian multi-hyphenate artist and artivist who uses the body & voice as sites to host movement, text, rhythm, and protest that weave in ancestral, diasporic, and queer narratives of life and freedom. His work is informed by the realms of contemporary and jazz dance, physical theatre, puppetry and activist culture. Beyond his artistic practice, he moonlights as a community activator, writer, and co-founder of Black Lives Matter – Toronto, and lead strategist for Black Lives Matter in Canada. He manages the development of the movement’s public interventions, programs and actions.  His artivism imagines large-scale public installations that blur the lines of protest and performance; arts-based interventions to impact public and social policy. 

    What’s your favourite thing to do right now?

    During the first phase of COVID, before this beautiful Black uprising, I was into cooking elaborate meals for each of the 3 meals

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