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PLI

November 14, 2023

A performer lies on a pile of twisted branches holding up a wooden pole struck through three floating layers of paper.

A circus artist and two visual artists come together over paper. From the blank page to the crumpled draft, paper carries our innermost thoughts and universal truths: a witness to the everyday. What else can […]

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NOMADA

November 14, 2023

A photo of a woman balancing on two pots. A scarf is draped over her head. She is holding another pot up with stretched arms.

NOMADA is a journey of the Creator through three worlds; Sky World, Underworld, and Earth. This journey helps maintain harmony of all the earthly and cosmological elements. It is the physical and spiritual act of […]

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Deciphers

November 14, 2023

A black and white photo of two performers on the floor. The performer on the left hides their face with their body tensed. The performer on the right is looking up. Their neck is outstretched, with one leg extended, and one hand pressed on the floor.

Deciphers is a conversation of words, movement and stillness. Two artists from migrant backgrounds decipher each other and the languages that ground them through intense, physical performances that embrace elements of Chinese Folk Dance, Brazilian […]

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BLOT – Body Line of Thought

November 14, 2023

A wide shot of a person contorting their body. They are bending down to reach for the floor, with their torso tilted to the right.

We are strong and fragile, interconnected systems of sweat, muscle and microbiome. In BLOT, our bodies are redefined through an exploration of our coexistence with microbiological beings.  This choreographed performance is inspired by our own […]

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because i love the diversity (this micro-attitude, we all have it)

November 14, 2023

A layered photo of a brown man with black and white squares painted on his body. He is captured dancing in three poses. The foreground shows him gracefully swaying his arms upward. On the left, his upper body is curved towards the sky. On the right, he is looking up his face showing white paint, with his arm raised in a fist.

A random encounter with a camera on the streets of Tallinn, Estonia made choreographer and dancer Rakesh Sukesh a momentary poster boy for a right wing news channel’s campaign against immigration from Asia and Africa.  […]

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DARKMATTER

November 14, 2023

Two Black performers captured intensely mid-dance. The Black man on the left has a buzzcut, one of his arms is raised, with both hands in a fist. The Black man on the right has long hair, posing similarly, except with one hand open. They are both looking at the ground.

PuSh @ SFU Woodward’s Anniversary Series “Body, can you become hypothetical? A galaxy in full gear acceleration? A liquid star monster, failing to die?”  Moving with otherworldly intensity through a collision of gritty physicality and […]

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THIS & the last caribou

November 04, 2022

A performer with blonde pigtails wears dark eye makeup, white tank top, furry white paints, and a grey knitted sleeve on the left arm. They are kneeling on the ground looking up. The ground is lit with white lights amid a dark stage.

THIS & the last caribou is a series of three works; each of them explores our place in relation to history and nature.  THIS is a meditation on loss and recovery. It portrays a woman […]

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Le cri des méduses

November 03, 2022

A group of dancers, partially clothed with skin covered in dark smears. They are intertwined, grabbing onto each other in a stack of bodies. The floor is gray and there is a gray irregular structure behind them.

The inspiration for this haunting, dreamlike dance performance is Géricault’s The Raft of Medusa, which depicts a jumble of intertwined bodies and has human desperation as its theme. Choreographer Alan Lake has taken the painting’s […]

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