The studio’s high ceilings huge windows and wide floor can only barely contain the energy of their creation process. An excerpt from their emerging creation…
I would notice that I was dancing. It felt effortless and it felt great. I would dance until I was finished, and after, I would be in a different place than before I was dancing. I never remembered how I would start dancing.
at the intersection of visual art and contemporary dance, tracking the shifts between these two ways of experiencing our environment…
a vibrant performer – who seeks to be a catalyst for artists with disabilities to have access to professional training in Vancouver
“I love integrated dance because it challenges me to keep pushing myself and my body, and the limitless possibilities that can be achieved through dance.”
I love the energy that fills the liminal space between the bodies of the performers and the bodies of the passers-by. Elysse Cheadle
Su-Feh Lee, Co-Artistic Director of battery opera performance, is the recipient of the biennial $10,000 Lola Award which was established in memory of the late and much-loved choreographer Lola MacLaughlin. Ziyian Kwan receives the Isadora Award for Excellence in Performance in recognition of her outstanding career as a dancer, spanning more than 25 years. The Awards were announced at a special presentation at Scotiabank Dance Centre on March 27.
Nijinsky Gibber Jazz Club member Justine Chambers is a Vancouver-based contemporary dance artist, who is currently one of five artists-in-residence at ten fifteen maple (http://tenfifteenmaple.org). …