The Screendance Costume : Homage, Reappropriation, and Symbolism

Claudia Chan Tak is a multidisciplinary artist trained in visual arts (Concordia, B.A. 2009) and contemporary dance (UQAM, B.A. 2012 and M.A. 2017). Her first short film La Buvette des carnivores won the Cinémathèque québécoise award for best direction at the Festival Quartiers Danses in 2015, while Norma, made in 2016, is part of the official FIFA selection. As a visual artist, she was programmed at the Festival TransAmériques in the summer of 2016 to present at Place des Arts her very first solo exhibition entitled Hydra, which poetically and originally archives intergenerational choreographic creative processes through photographs, videos and drawings. In recognition of the quality of her work, in 2015 she received the William Douglas University Prize, and in 2018 the prestigious Mécènes investis pour les arts award for artistic innovation in a project that continues the research of her thesis-creation around the links between documentary film, cultural identity and contemporary dance. In 2022, she received the prestigious Envol Prize awarded by the Prix de la danse and the Conseil des arts de Montréal in recognition of her artistic, community and curatorial practice that values cultural diversity and inclusive practices. In addition to her involvement in numerous juries and artistic events, she frequently offers screendance workshops to teenagers and emerging artists, and has been Regards Hybrides' social network manager since 2024.