Allison Peacock

Allison Peacock is a Montreal-based artist-researcher, horticulturist, university instructor, and award-winning author. She completed her PhD entitled Simultaneous Natures (2026) in the Interdisciplinary Humanities program at Concordia University, examining the practices, labour, and landscape performances of a dynamic constellation of gardens in Montreal. Alongside her research and artistic practice, she has over a decade of experience in urban horticulture in Montreal and Toronto with a specialization in topiary maintenance. Her artistic research focuses on relational possibilities of dance and choreography emphasizing embodiment and environmental awareness, while experimenting with forms of presentation, representation, potentiality, and imagination. She has presented solo and collaborative choreographic projects at Movement Research at the Judson Church in New York City, Uferstudios in Berlin, the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, and The National Dance Center Bucharest (CNDB), and performed the works of William Pope L and Stefanos Tsivopoulos at Documenta 14. As a university instructor, Allison has taught with the English and Theatre Departments at Concordia University. She was the recipient of September 2024 FRQSC Relève Étoile for her article “Intuitive Fitness,” part of the Public Arts/Culture/Ideas 67 issue entitled: Return to the Body/Reversus est ad corpus: Dance and Embodied Methodologies (2023).