Lauren Runions is a dance artist, choreographer, and facilitator based in Tkarón:to (Toronto) + Kjipuktuk (Halifax). They are the artistic director of dance project I/O Movement and currently work with the Toronto Dance Community Love-In as a Lover. Their work investigates the role of choreography as a reciprocal spatial practice between self + other. Through deliberate movement experiments and staged interventions they begin to expand this notion; turning to shores, rivers, parks, highways, fences, construction, and desire paths as information. Their processes can result in scores, improvisation, sounding, dancing, observing, walking and routine dailiness as they question how our own embodied awareness shapes our relationship, and responsibility, to living with city and natural ecologies. Their project I/O Movement offers performances, community workshops, and residencies with the intention to consider our partnership with place. Through this project, Lauren has installed site-specific work for MOCA (Toronto) and Nuit Blanche 2022. I/O Movement has facilitated their own public space dance residency. In 2018, this residency was supported by The Bentway’s Community Incubation Program. As community development increasingly drives their practice, they have hosted public workshops including Movement at the Mall (Art Starts), Dancing + Drawing (I/O Movement), Mapping Inside/Outside (Gallery 1265), and Field Guide for Performance in Public Space (Maximum City). Lauren is currently pursuing their MFA at NSCAD University.