Darci Anderson

Darci Anderson has been teaching, practicing and studying the body and human movement since 2008 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada on Treaty 4 Territory. She has an MA in Social and Political Thought from York University, Toronto Canada and has completed all of her coursework for her Ph.D in the same program. Darci’s work is deeply informed by the body as a site of meaning making, and as a site of struggle where power relations are played out. She is the founder of Flux Movement, which teaches movement to students age 2 and up. She has written extensively on “the grotesque body” and the aging female body as a site of revolt. In addition, she has given public lectures on Play, Food and Ecology and Gender as both a performative and embodied practice. Darci has always cultivated a community that is wildly heterogenous and based on difference, rather than sameness. In both her practice and her teaching, Darci takes an interdisciplinary approach to movement - she has an extensive background in parkour, movement, calisthenics, olympic weightlifting, and CrossFit. While she recognizes that categories are necessary for communication, she is interested in the potential of the body beyond the confines of movement ‘disciplines.’ For several years, Darci has also run a Speakers Series titled: Human Animal Entanglement, which, under the umbrella of the concept of Movement, provides a platform for public intellectuals to share their ideas and thoughts on questions of Ecology, the Body and Food Sovereignty.