Brought to you by Jeanette Kotowich and me, DP, please join us for the 3rd Annual Holiday Boogie, Dec 21, 9pm–late at Gold Saucer w/ DJ's Scott G, Pierre G and guests... good tunes, low stress and lots of room to move! Cover by donation, $5 drinks (cash only). Proceeds go to the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre.
As artist in residence at What Lab, I've been conducting movement research with Kevin Fraser. Please join us Dec 16, 7pm at What Lab for a showing of what we've been working on: sweat, fluidity, beats, intimacy, bluntness, smoke, a few lifts and a few thousand steps. There will be mulled wine!
I'm joining a group of renegade performers in Ziyian Kwan's ensemble production Public and Private. The performances are Nov 13–24 at Left of Main. Tickets are sold out for the remainder of the run!
I'm teaching Working Class Oct 31 + Nov 2, 10–11:30am @ Left of Main
This October, I'm one of the inaugural artists in residence at What Lab, a new space in East Van "dedicated to creating a safe place to risk failure while creating, studying and sharing passions.” In addition to working with dance artist Kevin Fraser, I'm hosting intimate one-on-one sessions with other performing artists. See @mutable_subject for recaps.
I've been invited to participate in Leaning Out of Windows: Art and Physics Collaborations through Aesthetic Transformations, a research project led by Randy Lee Cutler and Ingrid Koenig with TRIUMF Canada's particle accelerator centre at UBC.
Small Itch, a dance on screen project that I created with Aya Garcia, Ashley Whitehead and Paul Finlay, is screening in various locales as a part of Moving/ Forward.
I'm producer/curator of Interplay 2018. Shows are Sep 7 & 8 @ Moberly Arts Centre and features multidisciplinary approaches to performance by Brady Marks + Michelle Helene Mackenzie; Ziyian Kwan; Carolina Bergonzoni + Joel Salaysay; Alexa Mardon; Patrick Blenkarn; and Nathan Marsh, Clara Chow + Yian Chen.
Throughout the year I'm hosting Mellow Residencies with/for several local dance artists: Ileanna Cheladyn, Eden Solomon, Luciana Freire D’Anunciação, Daisy Thompson, Ziyian Kwan and Jeanette Kotowich.
Aug 21, 9pm–2am in the Projection Room at the Fox Cabaret, I'm co-hosting the Amateur DJ PARTY PARTY PARTY w/ fellow amateur DJ's Kareem Abdul Jabaastard, Jennifer Mcleish-Lewis, Brandon Houston. FREE admission, FREE pizza, FREE dance party!
I'm teaching Working Class Jul 16, 18 + 20, 10–11:30am. How does someone who kinda hates dance class teach dance class?
This June, I'm on Beothuk territry (Woody Point, NL) at 8 Days VII, joining several fellow choreographers for an intensive, co-authored encounter for peer-to-peer research and development in the field of dance and choreography in Canada.
I'm joining an ensemble of dancers from Manila and Vancouver in Co. Erasga/Alvin Tolentino's Collected, Traces, and Still Here. Upcoming performances are Apr 18–21 @ the Shadbolt, as well as sharings on the Sunshine Coast, Salt Spring Island, Bowen Island and back in Vancouver at the Museum of Anthropology and Migrante BC: more info.
Mar 3–7, 2018, I'm a part of Dans Brabant's International Choreographers Week in Tilburg, Holland.
Mar 2nd, 2018, 8pm @ Left of Main, I'm performing a work in progress showing of Ziyian Kwan's Public and Private, with fellow dancers Delia Brett, Erika Mitsuhashi, Hayley Gawthrop and taiko drummer Eileen Kage.