Featured Artists
Jocelyn Mah ·
Jocelyn Mah is a contemporary dance artist currently based in Mohkinstsis Calgary, Canada, whose practice has expanded to include puppetry, mask performance and interdisciplinary creation. Lively and collaborative, her choreography weaves exaggerated fictional characters, grotesque imagery, and music-dance synergy into eccentric tapestries.
Jocelyn’s choreographic work has been presented across Canada as well as in the UK and Europe, at The SummerWorks Performance Festival, Dance Ontario’s Dance Weekend, Springboard’s Fluid Fest, Dance Made In Canada, EDge on Tour, ProArts at Noon, The Alberta Ballet School, The Festival of Animated Objects, Calgary Folk Music Festival, Skylines Dance Festival and Alberta Dance Theatre, among many others. As a dancer and puppeteer, Jocelyn has worked with independent artists and companies alike, leading to performances and touring throughout Canada and the UK.
She is a graduate of Dance Arts Institute (The School of Toronto Dance Theatre) and holds her Master of Arts in Contemporary Dance Performance from The London Contemporary Dance School (London, UK), with her Master’s thesis focusing on the relationship between music in dance in authentic and vernacular jazz dance choreography.
Right Hand Woman
Right Hand Woman (RHW) is a comedic, feminist, dance-puppetry performance created and performed by Jocelyn Mah.
In this “serious contemporary dance solo” gone wrong, “performer Jocelyn” doesn’t realize that the audience can hear her every (doubtful and self-deprecating) thought. Desperate to fit in with other dance artists, Jocelyn performs her movement sequences - that is, until her bloody tampon falls out unexpectedly onstage. To make matters worse, her giant tampon (puppet), Tony Tamponi, is a sentient misogynist. Dramedy ensues. RHW is Mah's comical feminist battle cry, squeezing out every last drop of the everyday horrors of living within a female form, while juxtaposing it within the artifice of contemporary dance tropes and clichés.