Ascension is an interdisciplinary production produced and performed by undergraduate students from the Dance, Music & Sound, and Performance Production & Design programs at SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts. Ascension provides an opportunity for students to push artistic boundaries, collaborate and create an original work outside of class time.

The 2025 production of Ascension features nine works exploring the opposing forces of the natural & unnatural, simple & complex, and harmony & disharmony. The intricacies of human emotion and perception, from the depths of grief and melancholy to the dreamlike spaces between memory, illusion, and awakening are considered through the careful balance of movement, sound, and lighting.