LUCIANA FREIRE D’ANUNCIAÇÃO is a Brazilian-Canadian performance artist, poet, and video artist whose work has been showcased internationally at events such as PushOFF Festival (2023), Dance Victoria's "Dancing Days" (2023), Vancouver Fringe Festival (2015), Performance Biennale Deformes in Chile (2014), and the European Performance Art Festival in Poland (2011). She has also performed in works by choreographers like Emmaleana Fredrickson and Arash Khakpour's You Touch Me (The Dance Centre, 2022) and Kelly McInnes’s SHINY at VIDF 2019. Her artistic practice focuses on creative reciprocity, cultivating deeper connections through the acts of seeing, hearing, and touch in collaboration with others and the environment. This approach emphasizes the wholeness of the body in both art-making and community building. Luciana holds an MFA from SFU and draws on somatic dance, contact improvisation, dances from the African diaspora, physical theatre, and clown in her work.
KELLY MCINNES, a settler of Irish, Scottish & British ancestry, is gratefully based on the unceded Coast Salish territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Kelly is a queer dance artist creating as a way to remember our interconnection with all living Earth. Kelly is interested in performance as a place for collective witnessing, feeling, re-membering and resourcing. As choreographer, performer and community-engaged facilitator, the intention of her work is to inspire collective healing. Her Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy practice powerfully inspires her artistic process. Often multi-disciplinary, collaborative and site specific, Kelly's work has been presented in festivals in Canada, Germany and Mexico over the last decade. Community-engagement is integral to her practice. Her most recent project Late Stage Remedy, a collective dance meditation, invites folks to gather in public parks to share presence and love with the lands upon which they dance.