Online Showcase 2022-23
Dance West Network: connecting artists and communities in motion connects BC-based dance artists with presenters in the province, the country and, increasingly, around the world. A provincial arts service organization, Dance West Network does not manage or represent any of the artists showcased.
Online showcase guide: Artists are listed in alphabetical order by last name; artists with companies are listed in alphabetical order by company name.
Unless noted otherwise, artists listed below create work on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), and the Tsleil-Waututh peoples.
Feb 1, 2 & 3 from 2pm-3:30pm Pacific
Curated by Dance West Network, this year's annual showcase/pitch features 30 dance and performance projects, and will be presented online as an industry event
Each date will feature a different group of Vancouver and BC-based contemporary dance artists about their recent projects (programs listed below).
These dance and performance projects are suited for Mainstage presentations, PLUS some of the dance artists have included digital accompaniments and performances that could also be presented out-of-doors and/or in settings beyond the theatre stage.
These works are available for presentation in 2023-24.
P Megan Andrews - the disorientation project
Ballet Kelowna - Macbeth
Ballet Kelowna - taqəš and Other Works
Shammy Belmore + Deviani Andrea - Islands of Utopia. Island 1 - Forget Me Nots
Chaos Emblematic - Radical Rebellion
Tomoyo Yamada / Clala Dance Project - yane ura
Company 605 - Brimming
Company 605 - Looping
Company 605 - The Replacement
Corporeal Imago - Throe
Dance//Novella - When The Walls Come Down
Dancers of Damelahamid - Raven Mother
Isak Enquist & Cohort - Late Nights
FakeKnot - Piña
FakeKnot - whip
Jhoely Triana Flamenco - Arboles (Trees)
Linda Hayes - "La Cosas que importante". The things that matter
Geneviève Johnson & Holly Bright - A Song of Years - Conversation With Tedd Robinson
Shayna Jones - Grandmama Speak
MascallDance - Lurch
MascallDance - Privilege@Home
MascallDance - The Impossible has Already Happened
Method Dance Society - Shakespeare City
Salome Nieto - Impermanent Flower
Radical System Art - Momentum of Isolation - MOI
Raven Spirit Dance - Chapter 21
Raven Spirit Dance - Confluence
Anya Saugstad and Artists - Paper Mountains
Shilpa Shankar - Nrithyanjali, an offering
Rita Sheena - EVERYBODY KNOWS: A Leonard Cohen Musical
Tara Cheyenne Performance - Pants
VDCM Dance Collective - Tethered
Wen Wei Dance - New Creation (TBD)
Wen Wei Dance - Ying Yun
Calder White - BABY