Siriol Joyner is an artist working within the field of dance and choreography. She is obsessed with language and its relationship to Dance and dancing and the material and political implications of this connection. She is creating movement, text and object works that focus upon the notions of mutation, translation and code-switching.
Her interests are informed by her Welsh identity and the minority status of her mother tongue, Cymraeg (Welsh). An interest in site and site specificity is always present in Siriol’s work. In 2021 her solo piece “Listening to-“ was presented by Cullberg, the national and international repertoire contemporary dance company in Sweden and she is currently making a new group work that begins from asking ‘what is a site specific dance?’; ‘what is the dance of this place?’
Siriol is an Associate Artist at MARC in Knislinge and has been resident at Köttinspektionen Uppsala, Dans Plats Skog and MDT in Stockholm. Her work has been presented at Performance Studies International in Aomori Japan, Museum of Contemporary Art in San Juan Puerto Rico and Movement Research NYC (amongst others). She holds an MFA in Choreography from University of the Arts Stockholm and a post-graduate qualification from the Royal Academy of Art Stockholm.
As well as making her own work, Siriol performs with/for artists such as Mette Edvardsen, Hana Erdman, Ruarí Donovan, Dora Garcia and Alice Mackenzie. Siriol is co- director of Maynard Abercych, a dance organisation in rural west Wales that curates and produces dance residencies, festivals and events in the community with local and international dance practitioners.
Indigenous Objects: Gwrando ar Govan Glasgow 2015 Casgliad o wrthrychau a perfformiad/Collection of Objects and Performance Ffoto/Photo: Brian Hartley @stillmotion
