Ayelen Liberona

Ayelen Liberona began with a career in dance that has evolved toward radical explorations of movement and the moving image as powerful tools of transformation and social justice. Her work has been presented across 4 continents in theatres, galleries and forests (to name a few) telling stories of ancestry, ritual and our relationship to nature. She has collaborated with artists such as Margie Gillis, Harry Mavromichalis, Gabrielle Roth, Noemie Lafrance and companies such as Nova Dance, Corpus, Cirque Du Soleil and The Future of Storytelling. Together with her life partner Joseph Johnson-Cami they have directed over a dozen experimental and documentary films that have garnered awards worldwide. She was the recipient of the Mark Haslam Award at the 2011 Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival; awarded to films that “demonstrate the power to inspire reflection and positive action towards the social and ecological health of the planet". She was nominated to TIFF’s 2011 Emerging Filmmaker Award and in 2012 she received the K.M. Hunter Award for Film & Video. Staging plant-people conspiracies alongside anthropologist Natasha Myers has been the fountainhead of Becoming Sensor, a research-creation project that cultivates new modes of embodiment, attention and imagination and new ways of telling stories of lands and bodies. Ayelen is an artist, educator, activist, mother and friend who continues to dance as a way of learning from the land and understanding our place in the world. She is honoured to call Turtle Island her home. www.ayelenliberona.com