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Springboard Performance
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🎉Ohcitaw (ᐅᐦᒋᑕᐤ) & Agrimony (excerpts) | Meghann Michalsky - Sophie Dow
Ohcitaw (ᐅᐦᒋᑕᐤ) | Meghann Michalsky & Bluejay Linklater Ohcitaw (ᐅᐦᒋᑕᐤ) is a collaboration between Meghann Michalsky and Bluejay Linklater. The work is shaped by the circumstances that brought them together as creators—meeting in this unplanned shared moment of time and space. This convergence, guided by something beyond intention, forms the…
🎸Mōnad | EBNFLOH
Mōnad (from the ancient Greek ‘monas’, meaning ‘unit’) refers to the idea of a self-sufficient, unicellular organism containing multiple universes. Major player on Québec’s Hip Hop dance scene, Alexandra ‘Spicey’ Landé embodies this Mōnad. Inspired by this primary matter and energized by their symbiotic relationship with dance and Hip Hop…
🎸360 DJ Party | Afros in tha City
Following Mōnad, the 360 DJ Afterparty is a curated musical experience led by DJ Dooshima, founder of Afros in tha City. More than a dance party, the 360 DJ Party extends the conversations of the festival into a shared space where audiences can connect through rhythm, movement, and celebration. Drawing…
🎭ODE | Compagnie Catherine Gaudet
Inspired by pagan processions, eleven performers chant on stage, tirelessly repeating a choral chant that resembles an insistent prayer. The scene, at first inoffensive and naïve, gradually becomes more complex, culminating in an almost psychedelic, hallucinogenic effect. With ODE, Catherine Gaudet transports us into a surreal, exalted universe, imbued with…
🎭Weathering | Josh Martin - Gisele Ardosa - Jennifer Clarke
Weathering: Navigating the weight of rain, the pull of light, and resilient becoming A Triple Bill featuring performances by Josh Martin, Gisele Ardosa, and Jennifer Clarke. Lighthouse | Josh Martin A blurring of fast and slow, this new solo work in development exists in a tension between the dizzying sensation…
🎭Mama, do we die when we sleep? | Rachel Meyer
Inspired by her then two-year-old daughter’s question, “Do we die when we sleep?”, Rachel Meyer explores how wonder interrupts the limits we place on ourselves. As imagination and dream-space seep into everyday life, the work opens a poetic meditation on possibility and childlike wonder. Former Ballet BC member Rachel Meyer…
🎸Omote (面) | Shion Skye Carter & Miya Turnbull
Omote (面) is a co-creation between Vancouver dance artist Shion Skye Carter and Halifax mask maker Miya Turnbull. The artists explore their mixed Japanese Canadian heritage with a myriad of deeply expressive hand-crafted and personalized masks. The choreography serves to collate and contrast their experiences and family histories, while evoking…