When I look at the camera, I'm looking at you is a live online show featuring a series of mostly pointless yet oddly satisfying explorations around dance for video conference. Ahmed Khalil provides the music. Positing that embodied knowledge can be transmitted via other media, the show brings forward bodily understandings with no stable definitions and invites participants to add their experiences. As meta-narrative feeds into moving images, and skin becomes pixels, our boundaries extend.
Encore presentation Dec 5, 4pm PST: email me for the link
WILATCILAY is part of Shooting Gallery Nov 27, 7pm PST. Tune in from wherever you are with a festival pass for $0–$40. You'll receive an email on the day of, with all of the details. Or, message me for whatever reason.
I'm grateful for funds from the Canada Council for the Arts.
Running Oct 20-29, Mon–Thur, 9:30–11:30am... Morrow Mornings, where I perform my personal movement practice behind the plate glass window at Morrow, a new dance space and shop created by Ziyian Kwan: 336 W Pender St, downtown so-called Vancouver. I've been wanting to do something like this for a long tiiiiiiime. A project that challenges my daily routines and assumptions; integrates performing with practice; emphasizes process over product; and reveals what so often happens behind closed doors. To be viewed (or not) in passing, from the street. All of a sudden I'm worried about my hair, hahahaha. Audience = unknown. Please come by for a distanced greeting... I miss you.
With support from the BC Arts Council, I'm back creating Orange with Less San Miguel. Initiated in Mar 2019, our project is all sweat, breath, proximity and contact. How do we keep doing this work during the pandemic? With shows of some sort scheduled for Apr 2021, presented with plastic orchid factory @ Left of Main, I'm grateful that Less is travelling from Treaty 1 to Coast Salish territory this October, to dive into these messy unknowns.
This September, I'm performing in an adaptation of Kokoro Dance's Reading the Bones for livestream. Shows are Sep 23–26.
I'm super-excited to perform Pocket, a 50-minute dance performance by me, DP, with music created and performed by Ahmed Khalil, live videography by Aya Garcia, technical support by Avi Bryant and sound by Amos Hertzman. We're presenting the work at the Yellowhouse Art Centre in Shxixnetun (Galiano Island, BC) Sep 5+6, 8pm, where we'll also be living and working in residence. Bringing out what's inside, Avi will be projecting what Ahmed, Aya and I are doing inside the house, onto the outside of the structure, and Amos will bring the sound out. So, offering COVID-safer outdoor viewing and listening. Many thanks to the BC Arts Council and Jeanette Kotowich for their support.
I have the immense honour and pleasure of working with Jeanette Kotowich in many forms. As well as building/designing her new website, this Jul–Aug we're travelling by land to our home province of Saskatchewan, where J'll be working on her solo Kisiskâciwan and I'll be collaborating as creative producer. Tune in to our social medias @movement_healing @mutable_subject for updates from our creative process adventures during a pandemic 💪💕
Commissioned by Young Lungs Dance Exchange (Winnipeg, MB) for their AGM Apr 28, I'm creating When I look at the camera, I'm looking at you, a show comprised of mostly pointless yet oddly satisfying discoveries around dancing via video conference. I share written context with the audience via zoom's chat function: VIDEO
COVID :(
POSTPONED!!! With Montreal-based Emma-Kate Guimond, I'm creating and performing Charégraphie. We're in residence at Salon58 in Marsoui, QC this summer, with a show Jul 26 as a part of the FURIES festival: VIDEO
POSTPONED!!! I'm a part of the plastic orchid factory's cross-national REMIX this June 7–20, combining forces with Calgary-based Pam Tzeng.
POSTPONED!!! Yes, mom. Yes, sex. Yes, not learning to do my hair. Yes, moving to the beat. This May I'm living and working in residence at Yellowhouse Art Centre in Shxixnetun (Galiano Island, BC) and will be performing a couple of shows May 30 w/ Ahmed Khalil who is creating sound :)))))))))))))))))
POSTPONED!!! This May, I'm continuing to work across territories and dance forms w/ Less San Miguel on Orange. Presentations coming in 2021!
POSTPONED!!! I'm teaching Working Class Apr 20, 22 + 24, 10–11:30am @ The Dance Centre
POSTPONED!!! Joining a multi-generational cast spanning over 40 years of age, I'm performing in Kokoro Dance's post-Butoh Reading the Bones Mar 27 + 28 @ the Vancouver Playhouse during the 2020 VIDF.
CALL for / APPEL pour 8 DAYS 8 JOURS IX. DEADLINE to Apply is FEB 15, 2020 / La DATE LIMITE pour appliquer est le 15 FÉV 2020.
Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Rachel Maddock invited me to mentor them in developing their personal and improvisational movement practice.
Since 2018, I've been collaboratively creating an artwork with Randy Lee Cutler, Jess H. Brewer and Lindsay McIntyre for Leaning Out of Windows. Join our emergent performace at the exibition opening this Jan 21 at Emily Carr University.