Dance Workshops

lossy bodies with Company 605

Lisa Mariko Gelley and Josh Martin of Company 605 guide participants through movement vocabulary and methodologies from their stage work lossy (2024), alongside discussion of their evolving concept of the “video body” — a digitally mediated understanding of the body that has threaded through their creations since their first work AUDIBLE (2009).

Anchored by the notion of “lossy”, a term suggesting compression, degradation and reformatting, the session follows the makers’ creative inquiry into what is lost, abstracted, remade or newly enabled as physical bodies encounter and are translated across new socio-technological conditions and increasingly unfixed realities. As choreography becomes captured, stored, replicated, and re-rendered through machinic systems, what happens to authorship, indexicality, and the authority of the live body? What new processes, aesthetics, and creative possibilities emerge when perceptions of real or simulated begin to blur or collapse?

Through collective dialogue and guided physical exploration, Lisa and Josh offer a case study and reflection on their own experience and artistic trajectory navigating the digital mitigation of bodies, tracing how ideas become embodied in choreographic propositions, how questions generate form, and how futurity has quietly guided their work. Exploring how notions of source, representation, and meaning shift alongside advancing technologies and cultural imaginaries, participants are invited to situate their own creative processes within this terrain, reflecting on where and how they are making from now.
Capacity is very limited, early registration strongly advised.

Lighting Design with James Proudfoot

James Proudfoot is Vancouver’s leading lighting designer in dance and has designed for dances in festival formats to full evening performances. Learn the different ways that lighting can support your work and learn the terminology to effectively communicate your ideas to a lighting designer.

This hands-on workshop will take place in our black-box theatre (Faris Family Studio), where participants will have the opportunity to prepare for a lighting hang, learn about focusing lights, and how to use lighting to create different moods and looks, structure the space, and support the physical and thematic aspects of choreography.

Capacity is very limited, early registration strongly advised.

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