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Dance West Network

Dance West Network: connecting artists and communities in motion

March 2024

Re-centering/ Margins 2024

residency for IBPOC early career dance artists

IN VANCOUVER AND SURREY

Announcing the selected artists, plus their mentors, writers and the editorial team

SHAHIR QRISHNASWAMY

Writer: Sophie Joworski 

Mentor: Natalie Tin Yin Gan 

PERELANDRA WADDLE

Writer: Deborah Augier 

Mentor: Jeannette Kotowich  

YSADORA DIAS

Writer: Luciana Freire D'Anunciacao 

Mentor: Tin Gamboa

PUNIT SINGH

Writer: Erin Lum 

Mentor: Arash Khakpour

TEGVARAN SOOCH

Writer: Simran Sachar 

Mentor: Spicey  

ISABELLA

Writer:  Stephanie Darvasi 

Mentor: Eric Cheung and Ana Sosa

Project Editors: Sarah Wong, Alex Masse

Selected artists in each location receive:

>$2500 total stipend (inclusive of admin, rehearsal & performance fees)

>100 hours of free rehearsal space (spread across 7 months)

>Allocated hours with a mentor of the artists choosing

>Pairing with a writer of the artists choosing who will produce a written essay in relation to the work created

>Professional development workshops

>Two public showings with marketing, production & documentation support

Re-Centering / Margins creative residency is an annual project which increase opportunities and professional development for early career IBPOC dance artists to create contemporary works.

This project has been made possible in part by the Government of Canada.

MEET THE RESIDENCY ARTISTS

Studio Showing of early work

Wednesday, March 27, 7:30pm

Studio Theatre, Surrey Arts Centre

For tickets:  tickets.surrey.ca

Box office phone number 604.501.5566

Friday, March 29, 8:00pm

MORROW

To reserve seats: https://tinyurl.com/2xz5uad9

(seating is limited)

For more information about both events click HERE

Ancillary Residency Artists

Since this residency project's inception in 2019, Dance West Network has developed an Ancillary Project that offers everyone who applies - and are not selected for the residency - with some resources.

These resources- the level of which is funding dependent - are provided as encouragement to help artists persevere and continue developing their work and research.  

Anna Wang-Albini

Elizabeth SY Armitage

Monday Blues

Justin Calvadores

Brianne Chan

Palak Dhiman

Shimba Fuse

Isaac Gasangwa

Vidya Kotamraju  

AJ Yuetong Li

Limbo For all/King Fish

Natalia Martineau

Sho Mehri

Floor Monarchs

Jullianna Oke

Jessie Sijie Zhang

New Team Members

Left-to-right: Meet Sevrin Emnacen-Boyd and Mohammed Rashead who are joining Sophie Dow as part of the Coordinator team supporting the 5th annual Re-centering Margins Creative Residency.

MAINSTAGE SHOWCASES

Thank you to the dance artists who participated and the presenters who attended our six showcases in Jan/Feb 2024!

Over 35 BC-based dance artists and 10 dance artists based in Alberta connected with approx 80 presenters who attended the four online and two in-person showcases.

Thank you to the PuSh Festival and Matriarchs Uprising Festival for inviting us to produce showcases during their Industry Series. And spcial thanks to the Dance Centre for their generous support as the showcase host!

COMMUNITY NEWS

New Works and Vancouver New Music present:

OSMOSi: 422 Unprocessable Entity - Nancy Lee

April 4-5 Annex

Tickets 

Step into the world of OSMOSi: 422 Unprocessable Entity where a delivery app subroutine slowly develops consciousness after a corrupted update.

The Dance Centre and New Works present:

Family Room - The Falling Company

April 19-20 Scotiabank Dance Centre

Tickets

Family Room is a poignant dance theatre piece choreographed by Marissa Wong which explores immigrant life and cultural identity – and the complexities of her Chinese-Canadian upbringing and navigating her parents’ divorce.

Sadhana, an evening of Bharatanatyam

Sujit Vaidya

Time Will Tell Arts Society and Caravan World Rhythms

Thursday April 25th in Vancouver, Friday April 26th in Gibsons and Saturday, April 27th in Powell River. 

Tickets for Vancouver

Tickets for Gibsons

Tickets for Powell River

Experience the beauty and depth of one of India's most profound dance forms - Bharatanatyam - presented by one of BC's leading practitioners of the art, Sujit Vaidya.

Place des Arts presents the Traditional India Series, “The Art of Kathak” in collaboration with Bandish Network Society

The Art of Kathak with artist Palak Dhiman

Solo Performance April 7 | 2:00 – 3:30 PM

Tickets: $16 for students & seniors, $21 for adults (+GST). purchase tickets

Dance Workshop - Kathak with artist Palak Dhiman
April 20, 2024 | 2:00 – 3:30 PM

Bundle ( Solo Performance, Talk and Demonstration + Workshop): $43. purchase bundle

Thank you to our anonymous donor - you gave February a needed boost : )

Dance West Network gratefully acknowledges that our work is situated on the traditional, ancestral and unceded Coast Salish territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. 

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF DANCE WEST NETWORK

Individual donations happily accepted, click HERE

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