Justine A. Chambers

Justine A. Chambers is a dance artist and educator living and working on the unceded Coast Salish territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̍əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ Nations in Vancouver, Canada. Her practice is a collaboration with her Black matrilineal heritage, and extends from this continuum and its entanglements with Western contemporary dance and visual arts practices. At the centre of her practice is a question often posed by her grandmother: “You feel me?” This question is both a declaration of one’s personal orientation, and an invitation to reorient and include what is held in our flesh. Chambers meets this question in her work by attending to individual and collective embodied archives, social choreographies of the everyday, and choreography/dance as otherwise ways of being in relation. Chambers’ work has been hosted at galleries, festivals and theatres nationally and internationally including EMPAC, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto Biennial of Art, Libby Leshgold Gallery, Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery at Concordia University, Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), Sophiensaele (Berlin), National Arts Centre of Canada, Agora de la Danse, Art Museum at University of Toronto, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Artspeak, Vancouver Art Gallery, The Western Front, The Dance Centre (Vancouver), Burrard Arts Foundation and the Hong Kong Performing Arts Festival. She holds a MFA in Interdisciplinary Art, is currently Assistant Professor in Dance at the School for Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University and Associate Artist to The Dance Centre. Chambers is August Tyler-Hite’s mother.