Saturday, January 31, 2026
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10:30AM—12:30PM // Community Programming: Net || Work – Alberta Artist Showcase & Creative Industries Gathering
World Arts Centre at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts (See map)
Springboard Performance’s Net || Work positions Alberta artists within industry networking events.
Springboard works as a connector. Artistic exchange becomes an act of ecological exchange: ideas pollinate, stories germinate, energies are composted into new forms. Touring allows performances and audiences to continuously evolve and each performance holds traces of the places we have been.
Featured Artists:
- Ballet Edmonton
- ‘Lady C’, Caroline Fraser
- Kaja Irwin
- Alida Kendell / Alison Kause
- Tia Ashley Kushniruk (亚 女弟)
- Jocelyn Mah
- Molly McDermott
- Meghann Michalsky
- Danny Nielsen
- Elaine Weryshko
- Wild Mint Arts
About Springboard Performance
2PM // Performance: Everything Has Disappeared (UNIT Productions // Mammalian Diving Reflex, in collaboration with The Chop)
York Theatre (See Map)
Running Time: 70 Min
A theatrical sleight of hand blending digital technology, illusion, and clever storytelling, Everything Has Disappeared reveals how Filipino labour quietly sustains the global economy. From ships to care homes to factory floors, the work transforms invisibility into revelation—with humour, wit, and wonder. Both playful and profound, it’s a conjuring act about what vanishes when we stop seeing.
Content note: Haze, flashing lights, audience interaction
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4PM // Performance: Catching Up to the Future of Our Past (James Gnam / Plastic Orchid Factory)
Scotiabank Dance Centre (See map)
Running Time: 60 minutes
Catching Up to the Future of Our Past traces the elastic rhythms of midlife—where memory and possibility intertwine. Set within a Mary Quant–inspired, retro-futurist astral bubble, their movements measure and unspool time, revealing the quiet space where nostalgia meets anticipation, and where every gesture carries echoes of what was and what could be.
Content note / advisories: Haze, strobing lights
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6—7:30PM // Community Programming: PuSh at Morrow (Ziyian Kwan & Ivanie Aubin-Malo)
Morrow (See Map)
Witness two studio showings of Tendrils by Ziyian Kwan & Wahsipekuk: Beyond the mountains by Ivanie Aubin-Malo.
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Tendrils by Odd Meridian Arts
Duration: 35 minutes
Choreographed and performed by Ziyian Kwan, Tendrils is an ode to artists whose inspirational writings, teachings, and practices are living toolkits for survival and hope. Medicines for the healer in each of us. Ziyian Kwan brings her signature imagery and state-shifting presence to this solo that weaves a poetic tribute to the late Canadian dance icon Tedd Robinson, drawing on gifted archival objects and intimate correspondence to explore transmission and artistic kinship.
About Odd Meridian Arts
Wahsipekuk: Beyond the mountains by Ivanie Aubin-Malo.
Duration: 24 minutes
Wolastoq and Quebecois artist Ivanie Aubin-Malo takes us on a journey through dance, music and song into a reimagined tale, invoking the Giants, entities from the oral traditions of the Wabanaki Peoples.
A captivating performance brought to the stage with violinist Julian Rice (Mi’kmaq and Kanien’keha:ka), this creation transports us on a journey through the oral sung and dances traditions of the Wabanaki Peoples. Wahsipekuk:Au-delà des montagnes (Beyond the mountains) is a leap into the invisible space of dreams, an attempt to reconnect and continue the transmission of knowledge. The project, co-initiated by Ivanie Aubin-Malo and Natasha Kanapé Fontaine in 2020, invites the audience to experience a vibrant celebration where the past and present meet.
This showing is supported by Matriarchs Uprising.
About Ivanie Aubin-Malo
6—7PM // Community Programming: Left of PuSh
Left of Main (See map)
Presented by Plastic Orchid Factory in partnership with Mile Zero Dance, Studio 303 with support from the CanDance Network
Left of PuSh is Plastic Orchid Factory’s platform intended for dance makers working in the margins to share “experiments-in-process” with a public. Established in 2018, Left of PuSh offers a responsive and meaningful opportunity for dance artists to introduce their work and practice to peers and networks of curators, programmers and visitors to PuSh from around the globe in a non-transactional context. This year POF has partnered with Mile Zero Dance, Studio 303, and the CanDance Network to facilitate RELAY, a tri-city handoff where three mid-career artists will carry their works from Montreal, to Vancouver and then Edmonton; Moving from seedling ideas, to full production — developing, and refining their propositions at each stop.
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About Plastic Orchid Factory
8PM // Performance: Orpheus (Alan Lake Factori(e))
Vancouver Playhouse (See Map)
Running Time: 70 minutes, followed by a talkback
In Orpheus, choreographer Alan Lake reimagines descent as transformation. Through a world both visually striking and physically visceral, performers move between rupture and renewal, intimacy and immensity. Oscillating between dream and reality, the work becomes a mirror for our fractured humanity—a dance of chaos and connection, inviting us to drink from the fire, and to emerge changed.
Content note / advisories: Brief Nudity
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9:30PM–Midnight // Festival Lounge Bar | Presented by GNW Scene Shop
The Post at 750 (See map)
After last year’s hit debut, the Festival Lounge Bar returns! We’ve once again transformed our office studio into a cozy late-night hub just for artists and industry delegates. Come unwind after performances with music, games, lite fare, and good company — the perfect place to mingle, relax, and keep the conversations flowing. Open nightly during the Industry Series.
Additional Festival Performances Available
7:30PM // Performance: Everything Has Disappeared (UNIT Productions // Mammalian Diving Reflex, in collaboration with The Chop)
York Theatre (See Map)
Running Time: 70 Min
A theatrical sleight of hand blending digital technology, illusion, and clever storytelling, Everything Has Disappeared reveals how Filipino labour quietly sustains the global economy. From ships to care homes to factory floors, the work transforms invisibility into revelation—with humour, wit, and wonder. Both playful and profound, it’s a conjuring act about what vanishes when we stop seeing.
Content note: Haze, flashing lights, audience interaction
More show info
9PM // Performance: SLUGS (Creepy Boys // So.Glad Arts)
NEST (See Map)
Running Time: 60 minutes
From the award-winning performance/comedy duo Creepy Boys comes SLUGS: a techno-punk concert, clown show and basement puppet nightmare about trying to have a good time while the world burns. Fusing DIY absurdity with electronic comedy songs and trash puppetry, this “brilliantly smart and beautifully stupid” hit from Edinburgh spirals from chaos into catharsis. For tonight, we are free.
Content note / advisories: For adult audiences; Nudity; representation of sexual violence, gun violence and self harm; coarse language; sexually explicit content with audience interaction; Flashing lights; haze; use of prop firearms
