DADAO, Des arts dehors / Arts Outside

COLLECTIVE PROGRAM FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Background: Inspired by and partnering with La danse sur les routes du Québec and its program Jouer Dehors, this program Des Arts Dehors/Arts Outside was begun in 2016 by MiBC with the Conseil culturel et artistique francophone de la Colombie- Britannique to exclusively promote and tour francophone dance around British Columbia.

In 2019-20, MiBC began a pilot project for its acclaimed program, Des Arts Dehors/Arts Outside, to include a limited number of anglophone/non-francophone dance and performance artists who were making site-specific work.

7th annual Des Arts Dehors/ Arts Outside Artists, 2021-22

Artists:

Solène Bossu (Vancouver/Paris)
Dance//Novella (Vancouver)
Fleuve Espace Danse (Québec)
Audrey Gaussiran (Québec)
Geneviève Johnson (Vancouver)
Jhoely Triana (Vancouver)

Solène Bossu
Dance//Novella
Fleuve | Espace danse
Audrey Gaussiran
Geneviève Johnson
Jhoely Triana

Mentors

Solène Bossu - mentor Emmalena Fredriksson
Dance/Novella - mentor All Bodies Dance
Fleuve Espace Dance - mentor Alvin Erasga Tolentino
Audrey Gaussiran - mentor Rosario Ancer
Geneviève Johnson - mentor Evann Siebens
Jhoely Triana - mentor Rosario Ancer

Leña Residency

In March two DADAO artists, Jhoely Triana and Audrey Gaussiran, had the opportunity to spend two days on Galiano Island at the artist-run residency center Leña.

The main house

“This residency allowed me to get inspired by the beauty of Galiano Island, connect with dancers in BC, share our practices and discuss our experiences developing, promoting and touring our work. DWN also helped me connect with presenters which made my trip to BC really worthwhile to prepare for an upcoming tour in Western Canada.”

— Audrey Gaussiran

“This trip allowed me the time to just be in nature and explore the sounds, smells, and textures of nature and most importantly my upcoming outdoor work Árboles (Trees)”

— Jhoely Triana

Audrey Gaussiran (from Quebec) speaks about her work and the inspiration of the Leña residency. See the translation from French below.

This residency at LENA was a place of inspiration where I plunged back into my movement and dance archives to create new work. I had space to marinate with the questions that I've posed for my research and to reabsorb my movement and ideas for movements after a pause. I was excited by the energy that is there at Lena, and shared movement with other artists - this exchange is part of my artistic practice. I am also super inspired by rhythm - I work in Flamenco and also incorporate rhythms from West Africa, Columbia. I was curious to see how this will all work together, and LENA was the place where I launched into this new work.

Jhoely Triana (Colombian) speaks about her new work Arboles, and her research for this work while at the Leña residency. See the translation from Spanish below.

My project is called Arboles and what I did in this residency in Galiano, at Leña, was investigate the sounds of nature. I was outside for about three hours and I was looking at all those tree trunks, I looked for all the tree trunks on the property of Leña and I was looking for ways to make sounds on the tree trunks but at the same time listening to the sounds of nature. I heard the raven and I heard the sounds of the woodpecker and so I was trying to make the sound “tac a tac a tac a tac” as I listened to the woodpecker. There were other birds I heard and I was listening for their whistles. And for me the trees are the roots, like tree trunk it’s there, it’s dead but still has roots and that tree trunk gives life to other new trees. And for me for me, this is like an interpretation of life, it is our grandparents and what do we do with that energy that they give us…if they die…but still they live us that energy and those learnings and so then how to look for our own branches, new branches, and what are we going to do with that energy, how are we going to look for others. So this is inspiration that comes from Leña and from my project Arboles.