Kathryn Ricketts, PhD, is a Full Professor and Chair of Dance in the Education Department at the University of Regina. For the past 40 years, Ricketts has been researching and practicing dance and visual arts, performing and teaching throughout Europe, South America, Africa, Australia and Canada. Ricketts has articulated the methodology Embodied Poetic Narrative, which is focused on developing individual and collective ‘voice’ through poetic performances and writing with vulnerable populations using artifacts and personal narratives. She has 4 performative research characters which she performs regularly. As a dancer and improviser, she inhabits characters for a long period of time. Her characters become a kinaesthetic conduit for the stories of others. Sometimes these are stories that have been silenced and/or never been told. In this way, her practice-based research works as a catalyst for community building within an emancipatory process. Her characters echo themes of displacement, migration, belonging, arrivals, departures, restitution and atonement. Each time she performs, her character is different, as each presentation is a structured improvisation in direct response to context and conditions. The character you will see in this performance is Hal.