CHOREOGRAPHIC PROJECTS
SUPPORTING DIVERSE ARTISTIC INITIATIVES.
Projects range from major national and international choreographic research programs, to talks, roundtables, writing, multimedia, exhibitions, and other artist-led initiatives.
CURRENT SEASON ARTISTS
Company Erasga Dance Society
Founded by choreographer/dancer Alvin Erasga Tolentino in 2000, Co.ERASGA has a distinguished international reputation of a singular vision of hybrid dance, diversity and collaborations of other artistic practice and multimedia. The contemporary dance company ...
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Nellie Gossen
Nellie Gossen is an interdisciplinary artist based on the unceded territories of the Musqueum, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh first nations. Working through the media of fashion, costume, textiles and performance, Nellie uses clothing as a tool to think and feel...
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New Works
New Works is a Vancouver-based non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion, advancement and management of dance and its related art forms...
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O.Dela Arts
Olivia C. Davies is a dance artist, choreographer, community-arts facilitator and emerging curator of Anishinaabe, French-Canadian, Finnish and Welsh heritage whose works often explore the emotional and political relationships between people and places. Her ...
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Raven Spirit Dance Company
Raven Spirit Dance creates and produces contemporary dance that is rooted in Indigenous worldviews and honours the communities and artists we work with. We share stories through Indigenous perspectives and practices and create opportunities for others to do ...
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INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS
Quebec-BC Residency Exchange 2024
The Dance Centre partnered with Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique in Montreal to offer a two-week research-based residency exchange. BC choreographer Sarah Hin Ching U travels to Quebec, and Quebec choreographer Natsumi Sophia Bellali comes to BC, in January 2024.
Photo: Sarah Hin Ching U by Chloe Lam
The Roots of Dance / Korzenie tanca 2022
The Roots of Dance / Korzenie tanca is an international cultural exchange project exploring how traditional dances and folklore can inspire and enrich the development of contemporary dance. Created by Polish academics and artists, the project uses traditional Polish culture as the springboard, but encompasses organizations from nine countries and participants from all backgrounds and dance forms. The Vancouver edition starts with a workshop April 8-10, from which two participants will be selected to take part in the culmination in Poland in August 2022.
Space to Fail
This international residency exchange between The Dance Centre, Hyde Productions (Aoteoroa/New Zealand) and Critical Path (Australia) took place in 2019/20. It focused on the dance making process, not product and performance, allowing time and space for artists to work without a fear of failure. It invited choreographers to spend time together, without a leader, without an agenda, and to take risks, with sessions in Vancouver, New Zealand and Australia.
Artists Ileanna Cheladyn, Vanessa Goodman (Vancouver); Josie Archer, Alexa Wilson (New Zealand); Tim Darbyshire, Alice Weber (Australia)
Photo: Alice Weber/Jose Manuel Parimaker
Yulanda M Faris Choreographers Program 2017-2018
The Yulanda M. Faris Choreographers Program was designed to mentor and support three choreographers who are ready to make a significant leap forward in their work, empowering artists and providing them with the tools to position their careers in a national and international context, through exchanges, networking opportunities, mentoring and professional skills development.
Migrant Bodies 2013-2015
This project was created through a partnership between The Dance Centre (Vancouver), Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique (Montreal), Comune di Bassano del Grappa (Italy), The Croatian Institute for Movement and Dance (Croatia), and La Briqueterie – Centre de développement chorégraphique du Val-de-Marne (France). Migrant Bodies used artistic and cultural tools to open up a civil reflection on migration in European and Canadian societies.
Triptych International Research Project 2010-2012
Triptych was a three-year international choreographic project hosted by the Operaestate Festival Veneto, Italy; Circuit-Est Centre Chorégraphique, Montreal; and The Dance Centre, Vancouver.
