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Victoria Mohr-Blakeney is a curator, writer, and choreographer with a focus on curating contemporary dance and performance. She has curated/co-curated performance work in gallery, theatre, and site-specific settings including Harbourfront Centre, CB Gallery, Edward Day Gallery, Artspace, The Citadel, George Brown School of Design, Scotiabank Studio Theatre, Artsweek Peterborough, and Xpace Cultural Centre. Victoria is currently Performance Curator & Associate Director at Public Energy Performing Arts in Peterborough, Ontario.
Victoria holds an MFA in Criticism and Curatorial Practice from OCAD University. She has presented her research on curatorial writing and contemporary performance in Canada, India, and New Zealand., and is the recipient of the 2015 President's Medal in Criticism and Curatorial Practice from OCAD University. Victoria has created and presented nine original stage and site-specific performance works at venues and festivals, including Nuit Blanche and Artsweek Peterborough, and the Precarious Festival. Her award-winning short film Locked in a Way, created with filmmaker Matthew Hayes, has premiered internationally at Diversions Film Festival (Croatia), Minikino Film Festival (Bali/Indonesia), Shawna Shea Film Festival (United States), and across Canada. Victoria's writing is published in Performance Matters Journal, Kapsula Magazine, The Dance Current, Toronto Standard, Peterborough This Week, Volume, Kawartha Now, and the Literary Review of Canada. She contributed to Curating Live Arts: Critical Perspectives, Essays and Conversations on Theory and Practice published in November 2018. Her first book of poetry The Night I Slept in Your Throat was published by Jackson Creek Press in 2019. |