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
In the archives: Dr. Alain Frère's collection, France