Call for Office Tenants ×
The Dance Centre logo
calendar-icon
|
MEMBER LOGIN
CONTACT US
Buy Tickets
DONATE NOW

More results...

Generic selectors
Exact matches only
Search in title
Search in content
Post Type Selectors
  • What’s On
    • Performances & Events
    • BC Dance Calendar
    • Ticket Information
  • Rentals
    • Our Building
    • Dance Studio Rentals
    • Special Event Rentals
    • How To Rent
  • Artist Membership
    • Member Directory
    • Member Benefits
    • Join/Renew
    • Login
  • Programs
    • All Residencies & Projects
      • About
      • Artist-In-Residence
      • Dancelab
      • Choreographic Projects
      • 12 Minutes Max
    • Dance Workshops
    • Power Of Dance
      • About
      • Immigrant And Refugee Youth Program
      • Discover Dance! For Schools
      • Elementary School Program
      • High School Program
      • Seniors
    • Dance In Vancouver
    • Awards
    • Upcoming Deadlines
  • Support
    • Donate
      • Ways to Donate
      • Donate Now
      • Choreographer’s Circle
      • Monthly Giving
      • Corporate Leader’s Circle
      • Endowments & Funds
      • Legacy Giving
      • Nouveaux Patrons
    • Volunteer
    • Sponsors & Partners
  • Community
    • BC Dance Directory
    • Auditions
    • Training
    • Dance In Canada
    • Dance Around The World
  • Stories
    • Blog
    • Dance Central
    • Podcast
  • About
    • About Us
    • Staff and Board
    • Careers
    • COVID-19 Updates
    • Media Room

Loading Events
  • This event has passed.
  • « Maria Avila
  • Vancouver International Dance Festival »
photo of list of promps from a shared practice of dance artists with sand behind it
photo of list of promps from a shared practice of dance artists with sand behind it

Discussion, Event, Online Event

good/terrible: open practice session

This is an online open studio of shared practice that the dream readers have been working on since January 2021. The group will conduct readings for and with each other using a shared divination score sourced from a rolodex of excerpts from the dream archive and the practice of carromancy, or wax throwing.

The group will perform these readings informally and as a part of their ongoing practice. You are invited to join in at any time, come and go, or to stay for the whole session. The chat will not be moderated.

Gathered and facilitated by Alexa Solveig Mardon, with textiles by Nellie Gossen, booklet design by Brynn Catherine McNab, and peer mentorship from Francesca Frewer and Erika Mitsuhashi.

The dream readers is composed of dance artists:

Aisha Sasha John
Ses Seçkin Çınar
Zahra Shahab
Rianne Svelnis
Andrea Cownden
Francesca Frewer
Erika Mitsuhashi
Forough Fami
Justine A. Chambers (not present for this showing)

  • Saturday, May 15, 2021 | 11am - 3pm PDT

  • Online via Zoom

  • Free: advance registration required

Buy Tickets

The score (interpreted and adapted by each group as necessary)

The reader opens the space
The receiver asks a question (silently)
The reader throws the wax
The shape is read
The reader pulls a dream excerpt from the dream oracle rolodex
The receiver shares their question
The reading continues with added/shifted information from the dream oracle rolodex
The reader + receiver end the reading

Since September 2020, as a part of Alexa’s ongoing curiosity into threshold spaces, consciousness, language and co-created ritual, the group has been recording their dreams in a shared document. This growing dream archive has since seeded scores both private and shared, poems, commitments, revelations, difficulties, and friendships. As the archive grows, so does our shared adjacent intimacy across realms. Dreams speak to us, and through this work, we aim to speak back.

Mandala Arts & Culture/Ron Sangha

Find out about dance performances around BC

View BC Dance Calendar

Contact Us

The Dance Centre logo

The Dance Centre
Scotiabank Dance Centre
Level 6, 677 Davie Street
Vancouver BC V6B 2G6
Canada

T: 604.606.6400
TF: 1.877.649.3010
Email: info[at]thedancecentre.ca

We respectfully acknowledge that we are located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

Explore
the dance centre

  • What’s On
  • Rentals
  • Support
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact
Member Login >

Let's Connect

social-icon social-icon social-icon social-icon social-icon

Sign up for our newsletter

    The Dance Centre © 2023 / Terms of Use / Privacy Policy

    Pace Creative Logo
    X

    Sign up for The Dance
    Centre newsletter.

    Get the latest news and events delivered to your inbox.