Music and Movement with Vanessa Lefan

“Recently being on the front lines at Fairy Creek, music is just such a big part of these movements and completely shifts the energy and morale of a group and a situation.”

Multidisciplinary artist Vanessa LeFan joins host Oceaan Pendharkar in the penultimate episode of Resonant Rest.

Together, Vanessa and Oceaan discuss sustaining one’s body and time, especially within seasonal structures of work, to imagine and create new futures. They interrogate the grant system and the economic insinuations behind terms like “genre” and “emerging.” Vanessa also shares her dreams of reconnecting music and dance and what the frontlines of the Fairy Creek Blockade have taught her about the power and purpose of song.

And they geek out—just a little bit—about their shared theatre kid roots.