Emine Adilak

Emine Adilak, she/they, is an interdisciplinary artist and practitioner from Tkaronto/Toronto, currently based in Tiohtia:ke/Montreal, with strong ties to her Turkish heritage. Before embarking on their contemporary dance journey, they trained and competed in various dance styles, self-published a poetry book, was classically trained in violin, and was co-director for a multi-medium art show educating students and youth on rape culture, sexual assault, and objectification. Emine is currently exploring the concepts of ripening and rotting specifically in relation to gardening, nourishment, cultural authenticity, and care. They are interested in how cultivation practices can influence their creative work and provide a framework for the duality of beauty and ruthlessness, growth and decay, tradition and lived experience. In her movement practice, she is experimenting with where this dichotomy can live in the body, her impulses toward curiosity and wonder, and embodying an overall insistence in movement and interpretation. Emine seeks to create work that allows her to utilize her vulnerability as power and that warms the heart in some capacity.