Anna Vigeland works and researches across overlapping interests in circus and interdisciplinary art forms, performance histories, cultural memory, and translation.
Through her FRQSC-supported PhD-in-progress at Concordia University, she is currently researching circus spectators' memories. She also works and collaborates on different teaching, translation, research, and creative projects.
A graduate of Montréal’s National Circus School, her approach draws on 20 years in the circus field, as a circus performer and later as a choreographer, dramaturgy collaborator, cultural worker, and translator for circuses.
Her research and projects have been supported by TCG Global Connections, the International Theatre Institute-Germany, l'Observatoire des médiations culturelles, a Bread Loaf Katharine Bakeless Nason scholarship, a Carolyn and Brian Neysmith Graduate Scholarship, le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and the Canada Council for the Arts, among others.
Photo by Marianella Michaud