kevin jesuino
Kevin Jesuino is a Portuguese-Canadian multi-disciplinary performer, performing arts educator, movement coach, arts facilitator, LGBTQ+ activist and community organizer. His work is oftentimes collaborative, site-specific, participatory, and process-oriented. His practice explores relationality, the stories within our bodies, and the queer joy of uncertainty. He draws from research in queer performance, ecology/biology, somatics, social art practices and site adaptive/responsive performance. His community-embedded projects engage participants in performative actions, discussions, creative interventions, activations, and other forms of organizing.
Kevin is the Co-Artistic Director of TRAction Collective and a team-member behind the Climate Art Web. They are a current Fellow with the Trico Changemaker Studio Artist-as-Changemaker program. They are also a certified Tamalpa Life/Art Process® Teaching Graduate and are a 200HR Yoga Instructor. They are currently completing the All Bodies Dance Teacher Mentorship Program.
Kevin completed their Theatre Arts diploma at MacEwan University and their Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts at the University of British Columbia - Okanagan (with distinction). They are currently completing their Master of Fine Arts in Contemporary Arts (with a focus on devised performance and socially engaged art) at Simon Fraser University.
Kevin offers customized workshops in devised theatre and socially engaged art along with one-on-one coaching sessions in expressive movement arts. For information on the coaching, education and facilitation services Kevin provides, please visit here. Kevin also welcomes requests for mentorship from LGBTQ+ emerging artists (please reach out via social media).
Kevin is grateful to be able to live, work and move through multiple lands traditionally called Amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton, Alberta), Mohkinstis (Calgary, Alberta), Aksaysim (Lethbridge, AB) along with the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations (Vancouver, BC).