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Denise Kenney, MFA
(She, Her, Hers)Associate Professor
Creative Studies, Theatre
Office: CCS 167Phone: 250.807.9632
Email: denise.kenney@ubc.ca
Graduate student supervisor
Research Summary
Devised Theatre, Physical Theatre, Art and Social Practice, Eco-Art, Performance Art, Interventionist Performance, Experimental and Documentary Digital Film.
Courses & Teaching
Acting, Improvisation, Playwrighting, Devised Theatre, Art and Social Practice, Performance Art, Community Engagement, Spoken Word, Narrative and Documentary Film, Interdisciplinary Studio Practice, Sustainability.
Biography
Denise Kenney has worked as a performer, creator, and director in devised performance and has written, directed and produced experimental, narrative and documentary film and television. She is Co-Founder of The Eco Art Incubator, a project designed to foster eco art in the Okanagan valley and Inner Fish Performance Co., a performance company that presents and creates original work to challenge the boundaries of live performance and cultivate connection and belonging.
Websites
blogs.ubc.ca/denisekenneyportfolio
blogs.ubc.ca/theecoartincubator
Degrees
Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Education, Masters of Fine Arts. Studied at Ecole Jacques Lecoq (Paris).
Selected Publications & Presentations
“Site-specific Performance and the Art of Not Leaving.” Choreographic Practices (Spring 2018): Performing Ecologies in a World in Crisis. Guest edited by Sondra Fraleigh and Robert Bingham. (Kenney & Holmes)
Eco-Art Incubator Cyprus: Sites Embodied/ Catalogue, Curriculum Contemplations. Lake Publishing, 2018. (Kenney & Holmes)
“The Eco Art Incubator and the Ethics of Belonging.” The Ethics of Art: Ecological Turns in the Performing Arts. Ed. Guy Cools and Pascal Gielen. Antennae, Valiz, Amsterdam: Arts in Society, Fontys School of Fine and Performing arts in collaboration with the Modul-Dance Project of the European Dance House Network, 2014.
“Ground Rules: Live Performance and Eco Art.” Canadian Theatre Review 144 (Fall 2010): 48-53.
Exhibitions
Live Performance and Community Engagement (Selected)
Writer/Producer/Performer: Canary, Living Things Festival (Kelowna); Ignite the Arts Festival (Penticton), 2024.
Dramaturge/Movement & Mask Director: Malleus Maleficarum, Tempest Theatre (Penticton), 2023.
Performer: The Half Life of Marie Curie, Tempest Theatre, 2023.
Performer/Deviser: Manual (with Montreal artists Willes & Kinner), Living Things Festival, 2023.
Writer/Director, Designer: New Moon, Key City Theatre, Port Townsend, Washington, 2022.
Producer/Director: Our Wicked Problem, Tempest Theatre; Black Box Theatre (Kelowna), 2021.
Co-Director/Devisor/Performer: What a Mess, Tempest Theatre, 2021.
Performer, Director: Walk of Terror, Caravan Farm Theatre (Armstrong), 2018, 2019.
Co-Producer: Pony Cabaret (Kelowna), 2015-2019.
Performer, Devisor: 27th Intl Ornithological Congress (Vancouver), 2018.
Co-Facilitator: Cyprus: Sites Embodied (Cyprus), 2017.
Writer/Performer: Handheld Devices: Body Politic (Montreal/Vancouver), 2016/2014.
Performer: Town Criers, Theatre Replacement (Vancouver), 2015.
Co-Producer: Turf the Turf (Kelowna), 2014.
Performer/Director: Social Potluck (Port Townsend), WA 2012.
Co-Producer: Vivarium: Scar Sites (Kelowna), 2012.
Co-Writer/Director: Green Space (Edmonton), 2012.
Director/Performer: Soundcan- Art of Public Noise Tour (Belgium, Germany, Netherlands), 2011.
Performer/Co-Creator: The House at the End of the Road (Vancouver), 2010.
Performer/Co-Creator: Inner Fish (Kelowna), 2009.
Performer/Co-Creator: Ground Rules (Kelowna), 2008.
Film and Television (Selected)
Director/Editor: The Common Fag, Short, 2018.
Writer/Director/Editor: Living Building, Documentary, 2018.
Director/Editor: Taaloo Zorouna Syrian Refugee Project, On-line Series, 2017.
Director: Bananaphone; I Like It Saucy; Dust Pan, Music Videos, 2018, 2019, 2023.
Writer/Director/Editor: Bee Line , Short, 2013.
Writer/Director/Editor: Chainsaw Ballet, Short, 2013.
Writer/Director/Editor: Eulogy, Short, 2006.
Writer/Director/Editor: Other Eyes, Documentary, 2002.
Writer/Director: The Shopping Bags (7 Episodes), Lifestyle Series, 2003-2004.
Writer/Director/Field Producer: Weird Homes (23 Episodes), Lifestyle Series, 1999-2002.
Writer/Director/Field Producer: Weird Weddings (10 Episodes), Lifestyle Series, 2002-2003.
Writer/Director/Field Producer: Weird Wheels (15 Episodes), Lifestyle Series, 2000-2002.
Selected Grants & Awards
FCCS Research Fellowship Award (PI): Canary- a one-person show (with musician) combining the poetic and imaginative possibilities of physical theatre, object theatre, and audience participation with the “Ted Talk” aesthetic, 2022.
EXETER HUMS, FCCS & IKBSAS Collaboration Fellowship: Performance Devices: Teaching (the) here and now from and beyond the pedagogy of Lecoq, 2020.
SSHRC Partnership Engagement Grant: Open Works (CI). Open Works addresses a historical and current problem facing Inspired Word Cafe concerning how to negotiate competing and often incongruent forms of access within its community, 2018.
Equity & Inclusion Grant: Queer Culture Creation (CI): UBC Creative Studies faculty work with various non-profit LGBT groups to present queer cultural events significant to that community, and which promote positive health benefits for the community, 2018.
SSHRC Creation Grant: The Eco-Art Incubator (CI): Drawing on the idea of technology or business incubators, The Eco Art Incubator provides support for eco art in this valley by fostering a network of artists, collaborators, and contacts so that Okanagan conservation programs will benefit and that students , local artists and community members will participate in this growing field of fine arts and ecological activism, 2011.
Grant-In-Aid (PI): New Monaco, 2013.
Public Arts Grants (PI), City of Kelowna: Turf the Turf, 2013.
City of Kelowna Arts (CI), Culture and Heritage: Vivarium, 2012.
Hampton Research Grant (PI): The Soundcan European Project, 2011.
Awards & Distinctions
Community Engagement Award, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, 2017.
Honorable Mention Teaching Innovation, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, 2013.
Kelowna Impact Award, 2013.
Mountain Film Awards: Seven Summits Award, 2012.
BC Television Leo Award Best Director in Lifestyle Series, 2001.