credits

• choreographer, project lead Shion Skye Carter
• dancers Kayla De Vos, Juolin Lee, Danielle Mackenzie Long, Natalia Martineau, Myah McCarthy, Quinn Muylaert, Tamar Zehava Tabori, Kaya Tsurumi, Shana Wolfe
• lighting designer Hina Nishioka
• composer Stefan Nazarevich
• outside eye, dramaturg Erika Mitsuhashi

biographies

Shion Skye Carter (she/they) is a dance artist from Gifu, Japan, based in so-called Vancouver, Canada. Through choreography hybridized with heritage art forms such as Japanese calligraphy that interact with digital and sculptural objects, Shion’s work looks inward to the facets of their intersectional identity as a lens to process the external world. Recent presentations of their performances and dance films include The Dance Centre (Vancouver), Tangente (Montréal), Kinetic Studio (Halifax), Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), CAPSULE by the National Arts Centre (Ottawa/online), and International Portrait Film Festival (Bulgaria), among others.

Hina Nishioka (she/her) is a lighting designer based in the lower mainland of BC. Originally from Japan, she enjoys exploring projects with a variety of cultural backgrounds whether from the company or project itself. Her recent lighting design credits include Yaga (Touchstone Theatre), Kwê (Jeanette Kotowich), and Threading Echoes (Shion Skye Carter + collaborators).

Stefan Andrei Nazarevich (he/him) is an artist based in Vancouver, Canada. His compositions, performances, and installations utilize meticulous, architectural music production in order to turn emergent artifacts of failing technology into aesthetic sonic objects, inspired by retro sci-fi, anime, and the glitches in the Matrix. A frequent interdisciplinary collaborator, Stefan has composed for dance artists including Noam Gagnon (Vision Impure), Anya Saugstad, Josh Beamish (MOVE The Company), Wen Wei Wang, and Ralph Escamillan (FakeKnot). Presentations of his music include Vancouver International Dance Festival (2019), Vines Art Festival (2020), and the Darmstadt International Summer Course (2018, Germany).

Erika Mitsuhashi is an interdisciplinary artist and performer living and working in so-called Vancouver, British Columbia. Erika’s work has taken the form of performance for stage, installation, experimental film, site specific/responsive performance, scenography and projection design. Most recently she has been experimenting with live-stream video and digital spaces as sites for intimacy and choreography of attention. Her works have been presented by PAUL Studios Berlin, Powell Street Festival, Toronto Love-In, rEvolver Festival, and OFFTA.

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Kayla De Vos (she/they) is a human being made of approximately 7 octillion (7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) atoms. Kayla organizes her atoms to laugh, cry, drink coffee, rest, create dance, hike, and produce shows and festivals.

Juolin Lee is a Taiwanese-Canadian emerging dance artist who is fascinated by the transformative power of dance. She has the pleasure to work with Natalie TY Gan, Ziyian Kwan, Arash Khakpour, Emmalena Fredriksson, Zahra Shahab and other artists she greatly admires. Through openness and curiosity in movement, she wishes to continuously unpack her idea of self.

Danielle Mackenzie Long (they/them), a queer emerging interdisciplinary dance artist resides in so-called “Vancouver”. They have worked for Co.ERASGA, Francesca Frewer, Company 605, Oksana Augustine, and Chimerik 似不像 Collective. danielle’s work has been supported and presented internationally with Birmingham International Dance Festival, and nationally with New Works, F-O-R-M, Capsule (in partnership with National Arts Centre/F-O-R-M), Digit Carnival Z, Screen:Moves, and NextFest.

Natalia Martineau (she/her) is an emerging dance artist based in Vancouver, on the unceded Coast Salish territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Currently, Natalia is interested in expanding the physical bounds of her dance practice and using sensation to uncover her body’s intrinsic movement pathways.

Myah McCarthy (she/her) is an artist residing on the stolen ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, colonially known as Vancouver, British Columbia. Myah is a recent SFU Dance graduate, whose focus is to remain curious while approaching her artistic practice with presence and authenticity.

Quinn Muylaert (she/her) is an emerging dance artist raised in Port Perry, Ontario, on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation. In 2019, Quinn came to study contemporary dance at SFU in Vancouver, and has since been trying to push the limits of her technical training to shapeshift using inspiration from the artists around her.

Tamar Zehava Tabori (she/her) is an emerging dance and video artist. Holding a BFA in Contemporary Dance from Montreal’s Concordia University, she has danced in productions across Canada and internationally, performing on stage and on screen. Tamar’s experimental short dance films have screened at over 15 festivals worldwide.

Kaya Tsurumi (she/her) is a Japanese Filipina contemporary dance artist who grew up on Kwikwetlem First Nations territory (Coquitlam, BC). Kaya received her post-secondary dance education from Arts Umbrella and Modus Operandi. She is curious about the convergence between film, photography, and movement, and premiered her short film, “Peace Piece” in F-O-R-M 2022.

Shana 愛 Ai Wolfe (she/her) is a Japanese-Canadian dance artist currently based in so-called Vancouver, Canada on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and Səl̓ílwətaʔ Nations. She completed the Arts Umbrella Graduate Program in 2017 and joined Ballet BC as an apprentice for their 2017/2018 season performing “BILL” by Sharon Eyal throughout England and Germany. In 2018 she attended Springboard Danse Montreal and since then has been freelancing with OURO Collective, The Falling Company, Company 605 and with artists such as Cindy Mochizuki, Lisa Mariko Gelley, Anya Saugstad and Justin Calvadores. Her own work has been shown through Vines Art Festival, the.response’s Dance Cafe, Co.ERASGA’s Winter Salon and The Dance Centre’s Reboot Program. She was recently a dancer for the Edmonton Opera's performance of Orphée+ with choreographer Nicole Von Arx and directed by Joel Ivany.

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Oksana Augustine is a queer emerging contemporary dance artist/teacher/choreographer, based on the unceded and occupied territories of the Sḵwx w̱ ú7mesh, xʷməθkʷəy ̓əm, and səl ̓ílwətaʔ Nations. As a graduate of Modus Operandi, they have spent time in rehearsal process with OIS, Shay Kuebler, Khoudia Toure, Chimerik 似不像 Collective, Okam's Racer, Co.ERASGA, Zahra Shahab, and many others. Oksana's work as a choreographer focuses on neurodivergence, gender, pleasure, spirituality, and sensation, and has showcased their work in 12MM, Boombox, Chalk It Up!, The Happening Accelerate 4.0 alongside Kate Franklin, and is the choreographer for Chlopczyca directed by Anais West.

Alder Sherwood (he/they) is a movement artist residing on the unceded lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and Selilwitulh Nations. Receiving his post-secondary training through Modus Operandi, they have had the privilege of working with and learning from fantastic artists including Tiffany Tregarthen, David Raymond, Kate Franklin, Josh Martin, Lisa Gelley, Zahra Shahab, Francesca Fewer, Hayley Gawthrop, and many others. As a trans person who is navigating the experience of physically shapeshifting while working in a medium that requires deep connection to the body, Alder’s practice is currently focused on his desires to playfully expand boundaries, tell effective stories, and approach the unfamiliar with tenderness.

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Marisa Gold is an intuitive multidisciplinary dance artist with a passion for all things soulful. She has trained in a variety of Modern/Contemporary styles, with a BFA in dance (SFU), certificate of completion from The Ailey school Independent Study program (NYC), and The Graham school(NYC). She is an expressive dancer, poet, vocalist, choreographer, stylist, and actor whose work is embedded in self-reflection, a deep love for humanity and reverence for our planet earth.

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Josh “Jammin” Cameron is a 4^th generation settler born and raised on the unceded territories of the Semiahmoo, Katzie, Kwikwetlem, Kwantlen, Qayqat, and Tsawwassen First Nations. Josh began his dance journey as a Bboy in 2008, able to pursue Breaking and a wide variety of dance styles as hobbies and later as a career thanks enormously to the Black and Latinx pioneers who created them. Since 2019 Josh has embarked on various avenues of Stage and Contemporary which has culminated in his involvement in disseminating work that utilizes the strengths of multiple methodologies of Street and Contemporary Dance to create work for stage and film.

Sophia “SOSA” Laurio is a Filipina born and raised artist and a first-generation immigrant residing in the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tseil Watuth Nations. At age 13, she moved to Vancouver, Canada where she was discovered by her first dance mentor, Angela Lowndes. From there, Sophia embarked on her journey of becoming a full pledged performing artist. With a decade of training under the guidance of performers like Jeri Chien, Victor Tran, Kenny Mugisha (Now or Never Crew), Deni Kang (Black Mamba Crew), Mikhail Venom Moris (Dancehall Donz), Elite Force Crew (NYC), Mr. YouTube (NYC), PyroTechs (NYC), she infuses many styles of Streetdance. Sophia currently trains in a plethora of styles including Hip Hop, House, Dancehall, Popping and Afro fusion. She is well versed in freestyle dance and has won and judged battles all over the lower mainland.

credits

• dance artist Daisy Thompson
• author, poet, educator Hari Alluri
• composer Edzi'u

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Daisy Thompson is an English settler now living in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the Skwxwú7mesh, Səl̓ílwətaɬ and xʷməθkwəy̓əm Nations. As a dance artist, educator, and writer, she seeks to extend ideas of the dancing body as a key site for the questioning of embodied power relations and considers how the dancing body interrupts cycles of contemporary logics of control in relation to culture and identity.

Hari Alluri is the author of The Flayed City (Kaya, 2017), Carving Ashes (CiCAC, 2013) and the chapbook The Promise of Rust (Mouthfeel, 2016). An award-winning poet, educator, and teaching artist, his work appears widely in anthologies, journals and online venues. He is a founding editor at Locked Horn Press, where he has co-edited two anthologies, Gendered & Written: Forums on Poetics and Read America(s): An Anthology. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Diego State University and, along with the Federico Moramarco Poetry International Teaching Prize, he has received VONA/Voices and Las Dos Brujas fellowships and a National Film Board of Canada grant. Hari immigrated to Vancouver, Coast Salish territories at age twelve, and writes there again.

Edzi'u is a Tahltan and Tlingit artist based in Vancouver, Canada on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. An innovative songwriter and composer who paints stories of the past, present and future with textures, elders stories, words, and their ethereal voice—their new album Potlatch In The Box is a stunning showcase of that artistic vision. Being rich in culture, full of passion and spirit, the power behind their use of sound goes deep within the listener, inspiring them to be bold and genuine, while living fully within their hearts. Drawing inspiration from their roots and their experiences Edzi'u weaves together a tapestry of sound that is both deeply personal and universally resonant.