I'thandi Munro
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I’thandi Munro is an award winning mixed Afro-Euro L’nu woman living in K’jipuktuk, Miꞌkmaꞌki, the unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People. Munro is Professional performance and visual artist.
In 2020 she completed her BFA earning a double major in Photography + Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing from NSCAD University. Munro has studied many styles of dance and movement from childhood through to now with a focus on Hip Hop, Interpretive, and Improvisation. She considers herself a mover and athlete first. Her experience of playing Varsity Basketball at University of Toronto and more recently playing for the semi professional basketball league The Maritime Women's Basketball Association brings an intensity in training and endurance she brings into her work. Most recently adding a certificate of Personal Trainer from the Nova Scotia Fitness Association, Munro uses everything she has learned to aid her in the creation of her movement based creative, and everyday practice.
Munro has collaborated with many professional dance and theater companies based out of Mi'kma'ki and the Atlantic regions such as The Woods Professional Hip Hop Company, Mocean Dance, Kinetic, Votive Dance and Nestutasi Story Telling.
As a racialized person living in a postcolonial environment, Munro uses the representation of line and of lineage as underlying concepts in her fine art, craft, and dance. Often merging different mediums into finished pieces there is always a sense of multiplicity within her work, melding notions of the digital and the physical within her craft. Leaving space for her pieces to naturally evolve through reaction and discussion, Munro creates an ever-changing body of work that can be explored and realized in different ways.