Jen Mesch Dance Conspiracy
2025 – 2026
Ghosts in the Machine
David Tudor 100th Birthday Retrospective
Convocation Hall, University of Alberta
March 8, 2026 3 pm
Free Admission for Students
(Complimentary tickets for students will be available at the door and online through Showpass.)
Senior/Alumni | $10
Adult | $20
Featuring performances by Roger Admiral, a public lecture by Tudor scholar You Nakai (Tokyo), a performance of Rainforest by Scott Smallwood, Steph Patsula and UAlberta students. Jen Mesch Dance Conspiracy performs Tudordance with sound performed by Stephan Moore on 8 channels in the manner he did for several years for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Featuring Jen Mesch, Aimee Rushton, Nancy Sandercock, Katrina Smy, and Yuliia Tvorilova, the dance responds to Tudor’s scores, diagrams, instruments, and Toneburst collaborations with Sophia Ogielska and Cunningham’s collaboration with Tudor entitled Sounddance.
Henry House
Henry House is a film directed by Jen Mesch with text and music by Nate Wooley
Next screening: FAVA Fest – Edmonton, Alberta, Canada – Capitol Theatre – March 20, 2026 – 6 pm
Henry House is an expression of a kind of American “everyone,” with all of their faults and false footing, their moments of success and regret. The work features a cento text based on heavily manipulated phrases from Reiner Stach’s Kafka biography and John Berryman’s Dream Songs. The texts were stitched together and compulsively rewritten by Wooley in order to create a loose and billowing character, Henry House, whose life is eulogized by an unknown narrator. The work for this film stemmed from studies for a larger cycle of Henry House songs that were released on January 16th, 2025 on Ideologic Organ, but Mesch has found a new dimension to the House songs by putting the composer’s body in space and time. Whether he is the narrator or the eponymous House, we are never quite sure.
Go Where Light Is – March 16-18, 2023
I look back one more time. It’s like a crater, a hole where something happened.
-Emma Donoghue
A new choreographic work by Jen Mesch, Go Where Light Is debuts at Mile Zero Dance March 16-18, 7:30 pm. Buy tickets here.
Music by Evidence (Stephan Moore and Scott Smallwood)
Dance performed by Giovanni Young, Raena Waddell, Deanne Underwood, Jason Romero, Philip Kloc, Alida Kendell, Alison Kause, Bridget Jessome and Kathleen Hughes
Live video projections by aAron Munson, set design by aAron Munson with Larry Kelly
The evening will feature a second set by Evidence performing live with dance by Jen Mesch, Gerry Morita, Stacey Murchison and Nancy Sandercock and projections by aAron Munson.