JENNIFER LINDSAY
jennifer lindsay (canada/the republic of ireland) is a tkaronto/toronto based artist-researcher working in theatre, video, ceramics, and sound. spanning art and health sciences, her practice is informed by memoirs of the body, language disfluency, and crip time.
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HOW DO WE (SPEAK) LIKE A PALACE
location tbc
2026
currently in development, HOW DO WE (SPEAK) LIKE A PALACE is a contemporary sound and dance-theatre performance project that invites you to encounter lush worlds of language disfluency through mess, joy, and crip futurity.
narrated by an an electroacoustic soundscape composition and dance movement, these worlds confront a bodymind with language disfluency for the first time, unmake it by unlearning normative communication and coping strategies vested in cure, delight in disfluency with a return to innocence, and reimagine a disfluent bodymind with tenderness and palatial possibility.
in jjjjjerome ellis’ book, the clearing, they tenderly describe their experience with glottal block stuttering - a form of language disfluency similar to aphasia - as, "the contradiction of stuttering is that i am both speaking and not speaking. mid-sentence I block on a word. sound stops coming from my mouth, but I haven't reached the end of my thought. the current of my speech has just gone underground." linked to brain injury and neurological conditions that create communication differences, HOW DO WE (SPEAK) LIKE A PALACE is driven by the desire and intent to celebrate the underground places that language disfluency goes. language disfluency, also known as disabled communication, includes but is not limited to trouble with word finding, difficulty comprehending, hearing, and organizing sounds, as well as sensory differences caused by brain injury. stuttering, deafness, and non-verbal autism stemming from differences in brain physiology at birth are also considered disabled communication.
i am actively developing HOW DO WE (SPEAK) LIKE A PALACE and am seeking funding for workshopping, choreography, and set design. workshops with the sound and dance-theatre community are planned for january 2026, a deep listening session with the public is planned for february 2026, and performances are planned for august 2026.
co-direction and co-production: jennifer lindsay
electroacoustic composer: graeme dyck
choreography, dance artistry, and set design to be announced.