Anastasia Wansbrough

Anastasia Wansbrough is an interdisciplinary artist based in Montréal working to create a hybrid language of performance, dance, theatre and video. With a fascination for how movement can illuminate ideas, she is inspired by how the body can expose and interpret that which is unspeakable. Wansbrough is part of a generation whose every move is part of a public sphere. Every anxiety or insecurity lies within the public domain. With this in mind, she aims to express the very personal within the context of the watched. Her recent projects are driven by a search for a clearer image of the self by exploring physical and emotional states.

A Study On Vulnerability explores the subject of vulnerability and transparency by way of speech impediments (stuttering) and the mechanics of speech – breath, muscle tension, rhythm, and effort. It is an investigation of what happens in the head and body when speech is no longer natural. Driven by self-reflection through personal experience and physical/emotional states, the intention is for the work to transcend the personal into the universal search for vulnerability. This project is part of a multi-layered, performance-based study on vulnerability.