WHEN THE ICE MELTS, WILL WE DRINK THE WATER?

A Montreal-based artist, dancer and choreographer, Daina Ashbee received the 2016 CALQ Award (best dance piece of the year) for WHEN THE ICE MELTS, WILL WE DRINK THE WATER?, as well as the Prix de la Danse de Montréal award in the Discovery category for Unrelated. Her work is often influenced by her Cree, Métis and Dutch heritage and her experiences as a young woman, and makes use of both contemporary and traditional means of expression. Most notably, her work has been presented by the Global Alliance against Female Genital Mutilation (Switzerland 2015), and also at the Musée d’ethnographie de Genève (MEG), La Chapelle: Scènes Contemporaines (Montreal 2015, 2016) and the OFFTA (2016).
In autumn 2016 her piece Unrelated was presented in Bergen, Norway and London, England. Daina Ashbee has been awarded mentorships and residencies at Circuit-Est Centre Chorégraphique, the MAI (Montreal, Arts Interculturels) centre and Studio 303 in Montreal.

In 2017, Daina Ashbee – for three years – is an associate artist in residence at the Agora de la danse in the new WILDER building.