Video/Audio/Media

Here you will find clips from various theatrical pieces for which I designed costumes, wrote text or performed. I also enjoy reading my stories aloud, so there are some of those little performances here, too. You can also click on the Wyrd Words logo to go to my erstwhile podcast, or follow links to media and interviews.

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  • The Well: Release (Excerpt)
    2025-10-01

    The Well: Release (Excerpt)

    The Well (excerpt): was performed by the Method Contemporary Dance Society for the Community Moves Festival 2024 Mainstage at the Knox Performance Centre in Prince George, BC, Canada. Performer, Shelby Richardson; Choreography, Shelby Richardson'; Costume design (The Skin Dress), Lisa Dickson.

    This is the opening movement of a longer piece exploring identity and darkness. “Release” documents the first plunge through the surface that shreds and pulls away the accretions of the past—expectations, conformity, regrets—and leaves the naked self free to sink into the depths of a generative darkness. Made of crepe paper and an embedded network of wool fibers, the Skin Dress was destroyed each performance . The vein-like cords of the skin dress radiate out from the dress and into the audience, their tautness constraining the dancer as she moves and simultaneously providing the resistance and tension she needs to release and shred the dress. The skin dress and the movement released from its confinement span the distance between the intensely personal, interior spaces of the dancer’s self and the public spaces of the audience and the world beyond the darkened theatre

  • The Annunciation: The Apocrypha of Hildegard of Bingen
    2021-10-29

    The Annunciation: The Apocrypha of Hildegard of Bingen

    This is the tech rehearsal for “The Apocrypha of Hildegard of Bingen” performed by Method Contemporary Dance Societyat the Community Moves Festival, June 2023.

Audio

Mohammad G. Warblanket and the Underwater Tiger Colosseum

An enhanced audio reading of the story. Written, performed and edited by Lisa Dickson. Music used under creative commons license from freemusic.com

You can read the story on the Words page.

Metaphysics of Goldfish (Forbidding Mourning)

An audio reading of the prose poem. Written, performed and edited by Lisa Dickson.

You can read the prose poem on the Words page.

Wyrd Words Podcast

This podcast brings together three National Teaching Fellows and Renaissance specialists, Dr. Lisa Dickson (University of Northern British Columbia), Dr. Shannon Murray (University of Prince Edward Island) and Dr. Jessica Riddell (Bishop’s University) for conversations about literature and learning in higher education. Guests include artists, theatre practitioners, educators and students who talk about critical hope and explore the ways that literature can help us to navigate the challenges posed by the wicked questions and problems of our modern world.

Listen on your usual podcatchers or at The Wyrd House website..

Click on the icon to go to the Wyrd Words page where you can also find transcripts of all of the episodes.