Projects and Partnerships
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.
PROJECTS & PARTNERSHIPS
Creative Exchange Project: From the Back
The Dance Centre is partnering with Tangente (Montreal) and Toronto Dance Theatre to facilitate a creative exchange project supporting Kiki Ballroom artists Ralph Escamillan (Fakeknot; Kiki House of Gvasalia, Vancouver); Danah Rosales (Kiki House of Siriano, Toronto); and Ali Desrosiers and Anaïs Gilles (Ballroom 4 Community, B4C, Montreal).
Each artist will mentor emerging artists from their communities. The project will culminate in artistic exchanges and showings in Toronto and Vancouver, and participation in the World Aids Day Ball.
Photo: Ralph Escamillan by Felix Yan
Quebec-BC Residency Exchange - Ongoing
The Dance Centre has partnered with Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique in Montreal to offer an annual two-week research-based residency exchange.
January 2024: BC choreographer Sarah Hin Ching U travelled to Quebec, and Quebec choreographer Natsumi Sophia Bellali came to BC.
Photo: Sarah Hin Ching U by Chloe Lam
2024-2025 Special Projects
Aeriosa
All Bodies Dance Project
Matriarchs Uprising Festival
Queer Arts Festival
Raven Spirit Dance
Photo by Louise Cecil
PAST 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
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.
