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Sunday February 2

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10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. / Closing Industry Brunch

The Post at 750 (See map)

Join us for a relaxed brunch gathering to celebrate the closing of this year’s Industry Series! Connect with fellow industry professionals, share insights, and reflect on the highlights. Enjoy delicious food, warm conversations, and the opportunity to make lasting connections as we wrap up another fantastic Festival.

12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. / Off-Programming: Belsher Arts Management Showcase

Q7 Studios (see map)

Presented by Belsher Arts Management with support from Out Innerspace.

Out Innerspace recently completed the world premiere of Rhino, the latest genre-bending work from co-directors Tiffany Tregarthen and David Raymond. Their most ambitious work-to-date was created with support from the National Arts Centre’s National Creation Fund and the CanDance Network, and through residency opportunities at Agora de la Danse, ArtSpring Theatre, and Yukon Arts Centre. 

Rhino hovers between the tragic and the comic, ritual and chaos. It stages an unlikely constellation of characters who are past their prime and wondering if their better days are behind them. Our dreams and fears are intertwined in this theatrical world that only OIS can create.

Action at a Distance brings us another visual and sonic feast for the senses in its poignant duet Tuning. Created by artistic director Vanessa Goodman, commissioned by former Ballet BC principal dancer Alexis Fletcher of Belle Spirale Projects, Tuning looks at how we tune to one another in relationships. The performers create a live sonic and physical atmosphere using their voices to amplify the conversations of the body. Looking at intimacy between two people, this work explores the body through a sensory, sonic and physical connection.

Belsher Arts Management is currently developing tours for both works in Canada and internationally. 

Free: Registration required

Action at a Distance, led by choreographer Vanessa Goodman, is inspired by artistic collaboration across multiple disciplines, creating immersive environments through physical, visual and sonic practices. 
Artistic Director: Vanessa Goodman (She/Her)

Out Innerspace is devoted to creating exciting and integral contemporary dance works. Determined to be innovative yet accessible, they push beyond traditional aesthetics and forms with unreserved ingenuity.

Co-Artistic Directors: David Raymond (He/Him) and Tiffany Tregarthen (She/Her)

12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. / Off-Programming: Lucy M. May Studio Showing

Morrow (see map)

Can feeling be a way of knowing? An excerpt from Lucy M. May’s new hybrid exhibition and performance conceived for an art gallery. Masterful improvisers reach into the sensory present, prying open channels between the bewildering envelope of the world and wild inner landscapes. Surrounded by visually stunning images of Wolastokuk/New Brunswick, The Conditions unfurls in part from Lucy M. May’s embodied search for a spiritual connection to their homeland whilst facing a settler-colonial lineage. Created in collaboration with dancer-filmmakers Fran Chudnoff and Ja James Britton Johnson, shadow theatre artist Maisie O’Brien, and musicians Patrick Conan and Amy Macdonald, the artists invite you to sink into the intimacy of a contained space. Beneath concrete foundations, the bedrock shifts.

Free: Registration required due to limited capacity

Thank you to Odd Meridian Arts for its generous donation of the event venue

Lucy M. May (She/They) is a dance artist born in Eqpahak/Fredericton and based in Tiohtiá:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal since 2003. Improvisation resides at the heart of their work as a dancer, maker, and teacher, nourished by experiences performing in Contemporary companies and practicing Krump since 2016. Her work, presented across Canada, explores the materiality of human attention and our relationships to place and to each other.

A person poses with arms propped up on a white table, tugging at oustretched fingers and holey sweater cuffs. They have wavy brown hair and short bangs, and are wearing a camouflage sweatshirt and silver chain with ring pendants. They are making eye contact with the camera.
A grassy landscape with cloudy blue sky. In the foreground is a standing person facing away, wearing a white t-shirt that says "Less is more" on the back and blue pants, standing in waist-high grass. In the background is another person wearing a burgundy sports jersey, arms raised. In the far background is a crumbling building.

2:00 p.m. / Performance: SWIM

Vancity Culture Lab (at The Cultch) (See map)
Running Time:  90 minutes

Harnessing cutting-edge technologies to simulate audio and tactile sensations, SWIM is an immersive experience that imagines challenges endured by refugees who brave treacherous crossings between Turkey and Greece. More show info

2:00 p.m. / Performance: De glace (From Ice)

Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre (See map)
Running Time: 60 minutes
This performance is in French.

Step into a frozen otherworld where the bonds of friendship transcend the mortal realm in this mesmerizing tale for audiences of all ages about two girls bound by an unbreakable connection. More show info

A figure wearing a warm coat and a long braid stands in silhouette within a cube of hazy glowing purple light. The atmosphere is cold, as though the cube might be a block of ice.

3:00 p.m. / Performance: Dune Wars Kiki Ball

The Birdhouse (See map)
Running Time: 6 hours (Exit and re-entry as desired)

On February 2, the cosmic forces of Van Vogue Jam and PuSh Festival converge for an astro-glam extravaganza of galactic proportions, celebrating the creativity of the QTBIPOC community through Ballroom—a culture founded by Black, Latinx, Queer and Trans folk in NYC, Harlem in the 60’s. More show info

In an opulent ballroom, a performer struts down a runway lined with rows of cheering, grinning audience. Dressed in a colourful short skirt with a hand-painted fish tail, her bare back is visible as she strides away.

7:00p.m. / Performance: Seeing Double: K BODY AND MIND

Scotiabank Dance Centre (See map)
Running Time: 75 minutes

K BODY AND MIND is a cyberpunk blockbuster channeled through minimalist and machinelike theatricality, offering a mind-bending reflection on tech-assisted immortality.

Two asian performers stand on an empty stage under unforgiving light. The first woman wears a severe, focussed expression, underscored by her futuristic structured grey top. In the background, the second performer, dressed in matching garb, faces away and reaches above her head.

7:30 p.m. / Performance: De glace (From Ice)

Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre (See map)
Running Time: 60 minutes

Step into a frozen otherworld where the bonds of friendship transcend the mortal realm in this mesmerizing tale for audiences of all ages about two girls bound by an unbreakable connection. More show info

A figure wearing a warm coat and a long braid stands in silhouette within a cube of hazy glowing purple light. The atmosphere is cold, as though the cube might be a block of ice.

9:00 p.m. / Performance: Seeing Double: Walking at Night by Myself

Scotiabank Dance Centre (See map)
Running Time: 50 minutes

Stripping the psychological horror genre down to its bare bones, Walking at Night by Myself confounds the senses, transforming a nighttime walk into something sinister. More show info

Two blurry figures run in different directions on a dark stage against a striped backdrop like faded yellow wallpaper. The edges of the blurry figures are tinted with red and green light, lending them the quality of a digital glitch.

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