Re-Centering/Margins
Dance Residency
Launched in 2019, Re-Centering/Margins Creative Residency is an annual project which offfers professional development for emerging IBPOC dance artists to create contemporary works with mentoring support, performance opportunities and documentation.
This residency also features a written component - pls click HERE to access booklets of original essays by IBPOC writers.
This project supports Dance West Network’s mission by strengthening early career contemporary dance artists in Vancouver for future engagements, locally, provincially, and beyond.
March 2024 informal showings
5th annual RE-CENTERING/MARGINS 2024
A residency project featuring IBPOC early career dance artists based in Surrey and Vancouver.
Selected artists, along with mentors and writers the artists invited into their project :
Isabella
mentors: Eric Cheung, Ana Sosa
writer: Scarlett Loch
Ysadora Dias
mentor: Tin Gamboa
writer: Luciana Freire D’Anunciação
Shahir Qrishnaswamy
mentor: Natalie Tin Yin Gan
writer: Sophie Joworski
Punit Singh
mentor: Arash Khakpour
writer: Erin Lum
Tegvaran Sooch
mentor: Alexandra ‘Spicey’ Landé
writer: Simran Sachar
Perelandra Waddle
mentor: Jeanette Kotowich
writer: Deborah Augier
Ancillary Project
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.
Each year is different, depending on available funding, but we are usually able to offer the artists a modest stipend, access to some free rehearsal hours, meetings with project consultants, and sometimes funds for to cover written documentation and/or pay a mentor of their choice to work with the artist for creative and career guidance.
We offer available resources to everyone who applies as encouragement, as belief in the importance of their work, and to help artists persevere and keep going with their artistic imaginings to develop their work.
- Jane Gabriels, Dance West Network's Executive Director
Re-Centering/Margins
ARTIST ALUMNI EVENTS
BC in The BX residency, March 22-26 2024
Dance West Network’s Re-centering/Margins Residency alumni Jennifer Aoki, Sophie Dow, Isaac Gasangwa, Robyn Grant-Moran, Aryo Khakpour, Nick Miami Benz, Mohammed Rashead participated in a four-day residency in The Bronx, NYC, March 22-26, 2024.
With artists sharings and exchanges with Dancing Futures Residency artists in The Bronx, attending performances with impromptu community dancing, seeing other shows, taking class, and meeting artists, plus lots of good food, the artists left with new creative ideas and connections. Until the next !
Produced by Dance West Network in collaboration with Pepatián: Bronx Arts ColLABorative and BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance with funding from Canadian Heritage and the Jerome Foundation.
