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
Idan Cohen | Ne. Sans
Established in 2017 by Artistic Director Idan Cohen in Vancouver, Canada Ne. Sans is re-imagining and reconnecting Opera & Dance. In just a few years, Ne. Sans has commissioned new creations, offered workshops and classes, and produced local, national and ...
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Mandala Arts & Culture Society
Established in 1999, Mandala Arts and Culture is a Vancouver based company dedicated to producing, developing and presenting bharata natyam. Through the Jai Govinda Dance Academy, Mandala runs a professional bharata natyam training program unequalled in BC ...
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P. Megan Andrews
I’m a settler dance artist/scholar, educator and writer/editor. My artistic/research queries the relation of ethics and aesthetics through practices of movement, voice and perception. I’ve danced with choreographers across Canada, published in books and ...
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Raven Spirit Dance Company
The artistic vision of Raven Spirit Dance (RSD) is to share stories from an Aboriginal worldview. Our medium is contemporary dance; and, we incorporate other expressions such as traditional dance, theatre, puppetry and multi-media to tell these stories. RSD ...
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Sujit Vaidya
Sujit Vaidya is a freelance solo Bharatanatyam performer, based in Vancouver, Canada. After his initial training with Mandala Arts in Vancouver, he now receives advanced training under Guru A. Lakshmanaswamy in Chennai. Sujit has performed extensively, in ...
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INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS
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 2019-2020
Space to Fail is an international residency exchange between The Dance Centre, Hyde Productions (Aoteoroa/New Zealand) and Critical Path (Australia). It focused on the dance making process, not product and performance, allowing time and space for artists to simply 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.
