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Teri M

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Young arts/health writer and editor!
Toronto, Ontario
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Writer in Toronto, Ontario

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I am a working artist looking to freelance as a writer, content creator, or editor. I am based in NYC, Toronto, and Rochester, NY. My background is in arts writing, but as a triathlete and fair-weather vegan, I could easily contribute health and fitness content as well! I have a multitude of dorky interests that I eternally study (world history, visual art, art history, American politics), so I would love to hear about your content needs and find out whether we might be a match. I am also a meticulous editor who can offer assistance shaping sentences, or providing macro-level direction for fledgling ideas and stories. Below is a sample from my casual performance criticism blog. If you're interested, feel free to peruse the rest of the blog here: https://....com/ "If I Were is a science experiment. It puts bodies behind glass (sometimes literally-- with Hunt and Romania duetting behind plexiglass screens), questioning what is essentially, physically human and what merely social construction. And like any good science experiment, If I Were has a simple central question (Can two people merge?), extensive research, and, importantly, a strong, succinct conclusion. In this case, the conclusion is a stunning dance improvisation, rife with imagery. Hunt’s and Romania’s bodies transform in this dance. One moment: cells merging and splitting; another moment: themselves, plummeting through space and time. Their physical language, combined with Zee’s compilation of our digital microscope video, reads somehow beyond the laws of physics. One can see atoms flying everywhere, their bodies stretching, falling apart, dissolving, expanding, and morphing-- their bodies seem to converge. Yet, If I Were complicates itself with all the ways in which they cannot merge: their different bodies and sexes, their personal histories, their own desires not to merge simultaneous with their desires to try. In this way, If I Were is an emotional science experiment. It zooms in to the cells of a body and sees pain and history woven into their fleshy fabric. It takes the wish to be another person, the wish to be another gender, or the wish to be intertwined, and pushes it to the limit of possibility. But If I Were also leaves behind the faults of science, forgoing black and white and the “fragile objects of heterosanctity [we] pray to.” Rather, it celebrates the liminal, the queer, the choice to be separate, the choice to be oneself."
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