A delivery app subroutine gains sentience in Nancy Lee's OSMOSi: 422 Unprocessable Entity. Interdisciplinary piece co-choreographed by Emmalena Fredriksson offers reflections on workism with metallic costuming and electroacoustic sound composition
— Emily Lyth, Stir, March 28, 2024
https://www.createastir.ca/articles/osmosi-422-unprocessable-entity-nancy-lee-emmalena-fredriksson
From the moment the two hit the stage, You Touch Me proves both infectiously charming and subtly provocative. Central to this work are Khakpour and Fredriksson’s reckonings with their Canadian identities, both having been born and raised abroad. They explore this tension by blurring the boundaries between movement and text so well that the two no longer feel mutually exclusive.
— Martin Austin, Intermission Magazine, August, 2023
https://www.intermissionmagazine.ca/reviews/dance-made-in-canada/
Advanced technological creations are rarely paired with dance; the former tend to be stiffly mechanical, while the latter is instinctively human in its breathwork, making the very idea of the combination counterintuitive. It takes true conceptual prowess to meld the two seamlessly—and Emmalena Fredriksson does just that at the Dancing on the Edge festival. Her double bill Ecdysis | Soft Palate places costuming and set design in the limelight, with props that emphasize storylines of post-apocalyptic transformation. It’s a show that urges viewers to ponder the intersection of reality and memory states.
— Emily Lyth, Stir, July 15, 2023
“We can talk and touch now and there’s that joy of being in the room with the other dancers. It feels really celebratory," she adds. "We all long for connection and togetherness, and I think it’s something the world needs right now where there’s a lot of division and polarization.”
— Janet Smith, Stir, December 6, 2022
https://www.createastir.ca/articles/you-touch-me-dance-centre
The 360–video VR dance piece was co-created by Nancy Lee and Emmalena Fredriksson. Nancy contributed her directing and post-production skills and Emmalena choreographed the dance. Using their combined efforts, they have made a contemporary dance film that invites you into the ocean alongside the dancers for the ultimate experience in viewership. You can almost smell the ocean and feel the water.
— Darren Wiesner, Hollywood North, April 6, 2018
https://hnmag.ca/interview/exclusive-nancy-lee-and-emmalena-fredriksson-present-tidal-traces/
Tidal Traces on Global News
— April 6, 2018
https://globalnews.ca/video/4128406/experience-vr-at-reel2real-film-festival
The NFB’s production Tidal Traces, featured recently in The Vancouver International Women in Film Festival, is a curious melding of medium and content. A 360-video VR piece from new media artist Nancy Lee and choreographer Emmalena Fredriksson, Tidal Traces employs technology to place you, the single audience member, in virtual situ with the performers as they run past you or materialize directly in front of your face.
— Dorothy Woodend, The Tyee, March 22, 2018
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2018/03/22/Real-People-Survive-Virtual-Future/
Tidal Traces is many things: a stop-gap solution for winter-weary Vancouverites yearning for a hit of sun, surf, and sand; a unique opportunity for non-dancers to immerse themselves in a choreographic work; a stunning collaboration between a filmmaker and a dance-maker that turns accepted norms about dance and virtual reality upside down and sideways.
— Sabrina Furminger, YVR Screen Scene, March 7, 2018
An artist who has always been interested in moving bodies, Lee immediately gravitated towards creating a dance piece for the medium. In summer 2016, she connected with choreographer Emmalena Fredriksson, and shot her first 360 video demo. It wasn’t easy. Building her own rig—a 3-D printed platform designed to house six GoPros—the artist successfully filmed a one-minute teaser featuring three performers. The short immediately piqued the interest of some high-profile organizations.
— Kate Wilson, The Georgia Straight, February 28, 2018
Vancouver’s Nancy Lee and Emmalena Fredriksson want you to get immersed in Tidal Traces, a 360°-video VR dance piece where the viewer joins in, at this week’s Vancouver International Women in Film Festival. Released through the NFB Interactive, three characters (dancers Zahra Shahab, Rianne Svelnis and Lexi Vajda) explore a new and uncertain world—moving between tranquility and ominousness, beauty and peril—and it stars you as the fourth character.
— Kristy and Brittany, Loose Lips Magazine, March 5, 2018
https://looselipsmag.com/art-culture/experience-vr-dance-piece-tidal-traces-at-viwiff/
[ISEA2018] Paper: Nancy Lee, Emmalena Fredriksson & Kiran Bhumber — 360° Dance Film: Reflections on the Making of Tidal Traces
In this way, and throughout the piece more generally, Fredriksson and Khakpour cannily combine language and movement to show that no matter how we position ourselves, we must always negotiate that position in relation to others--and also that, as in this case, part of that negotiation is developing a shared sense of trust.
— Peter Dickinson, Performance Place Politics, July 14, 2017
https://performanceplacepolitics.blogspot.com/2017/07/edge-7-at-dote.html
On Saturday, March 7 from 12:30 to 4 p.m., Emmalena Fredriksson, the first artist in residence, presented an open sharing of her work. While dancers performed their solos – with an hour-long shift! – people on the street stopped. They looked inside, they interacted with dancers. Some even came in and took a seat to watch, on a chair or on the floor.
— DH Staff, The Daily Hive, December 19, 2017
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/also-dance-exact-vertigo-four-weeks-dance-unitpitt-projects
That goes for the audience as well. To do justice to the work of Fredriksson and her collaborators, we need to put a requisite amount of time and effort into working through all of the different kinds of dance that are going on, including our own. As Fredriksson writes in the catalogue, "To dance like no one is watching and everything is seen, to watch like no one is dancing and everything is dance."
— Peter Dickinson, Performance Place Politics, May 21, 2015
https://performanceplacepolitics.blogspot.com/2015/05/dance-workwork-dance-at-audain-gallery.html
Institutional Cheese Plate, a show happening this Saturday night (Nov 23 2013) at the Goldcorp Centre for the Performing Arts, is an effort to get more people in the know. Featuring interdisciplinary performances by four first-year MFA students (Barbara Adler, Emmalena Fredriksson, Kyla Gardiner, and Layla Mrozowski, alongside members of Vancouver’s music community (FANG with The Company B Singers, and David Newberry), Institutional Cheese Plate features new collaborations, intriguing interventions, and ample opportunities to shake your rear ends in a social way. Put simply, this is anything but cheddar.
— Megan Stewart, Van Document, November 20, 2013
https://vandocument.com/2013/11/of-collaborations-and-cheese-plates/