not knot naught | Deanna Peters | Mutable Subject | Dance Artist | Other

About the project

not knot naught (nkn) is a live dance work that explores permutation, possibility, and limits within a post-contemporary framework. Created and performed by Deanna Peters/Mutable Subject, the work is created in close collaboration with performers Sevrin Emnacen (experimental b-boy) and Luciana D’Anunciação (performance/visual artist). The project is an homage to postmodern choreographer Trisha Brown as she appears on the internet – filtered through time, translation, and glitch.

Rehearsal Video

Drawing from postmodern, club, and performance art practices and culture, not knot naught is rooted in pattern, rhythm, tension, and spatial negotiation. The choreography is non-narrative, developed through co-devised games and shared choreographic scores that invite emergent, synchronized behaviours. Three bodies trying to move as one. Performing on the edge of not quite remembering. Making complex rhythmic calculations without a computer. Dance as sacred geometry. High-fives as choreographic devices. This work does not seek to explain itself; it practices dance as something apart from identity, story, or theme while remaining deeply relational.

Set within a low-tech, DIY environment, nkn is co-produced by Deanna and aka, with support from Odd Meridian and City of Vancouver. Building on research from summer 2023 and creation throughout 2024, we presented our work-to-date at Dance In Vancouver 2024 at Morrow. Upcoming is a performance in June 2025 as part of Young Lung's Dance Exchange's 20th Anniversary Festival. Additional support and guidance comes from inside eye Punit Singh and outside eye Helen Walkley.

About Deanna

Deanna Peters/Mutable Subject is a dance artist and designer who creates, performs and DIY produces for the stage, club, gallery, web and print. Deanna uses the name 'Mutable Subject' because they’re always moving and evolving in their 22 year career. As a creator of “eye-popping” and “deeply moving” dance works, Deanna’s known for pushing the boundaries of the form.

Recent projects by Deanna include:

It’s all dance: mutablesubject.ca