Re-Centering/Margins Creative Residency

2020-21

2nd Annual

Launched in 2019, Re-Centering/Margins Creative Residency aims to increase opportunities and professional development for emerging dance artists of color to create contemporary works with mentoring support, performance opportunities and documentation.

This project also supports Made in BC’s mission by strengthening emerging contemporary dance artists in Vancouver for future engagements locally and provincially.

Artists

  • Katie Cassady

    Photo by Mack Walker

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  • Jessica McMann

    photo by Chris Randle

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  • Josh Ongcol

    Photo by Athelo Uy

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APRIL 2-7, 2021 @ 7pm PST

Join us for a culminating residency showing of

new dance works by 

2020 Re-Centering / Margins Residency dance artists:

Katie Cassady
Jessica McMann
Joshua Ongcol

Conversation moderated by: Joyce Rosario  

Suggested donation: $10
To register

Program

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN SEEING VIDEO OF THE WORKS, please get in touch for the link, jane@madeinbc.org


co-presented by SFU Woodward's Cultural Programs 

photos (l-r): Mackenzie Walker, Chris Randle, Athelo Uy

Mentors

Selected by the Artists

  • Julianne Chapple

    Mentoring Katie Cassady

  • Lee Su-Feh

    Mentoring Josh Ongco

  • David MacMurray Smith

    Mentoring Josh Ongcol

  • Rulan Tangen

    Mentoring Jessica McMann

Writers

Selected by the Artists

  • Haliehana Stepetin

    writer for Jessica McMann

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  • Christian Vistan

    writer for Katie Cassady

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  • Elysse Cloma

    writer for Josh Ongcol

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Project Editor: Emily Dundas Oke

Emily Dundas Oke is an emerging curator and interdisciplinary artist. She works between mediums to navigate conceptions and interventions of public spaces, often employing photography and installation to address complicated embodied relationships to land. As a 2018 graduate of Philosophy and Visual Art (BA) from Thompson Rivers University, she has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Ken Lepin Award of Excellence. She is an alumni of the TRU Indigenous Knowledge Makers program, where she developed research addressing complicated relationships to land as they are embodied within the performative work of contemporary Indigenous artists. Her philosophical research in epistemology guides her interest in works that deal with the production and retention of knowledge and shared histories.Emily has exhibited nationally and internationally and has been an artist in residence at Nida Art Colony (Lithuania), Ideas Block (Lithuania) and the Kamloops Printmakers Society (Canada). She is a grateful Cree, Métis, Scottish, and English visitor on the unceded and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

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Booklet of Essays

Re-Centering/Margins 2020-21

A booklet of three original writings about emerging dance artists of colour

Three writers were invited by the three emerging dance artists of colour to craft written responses to their work and creative processes: Haliehana ‘Alaĝum Ayagaa’ Stepetin (writer for Jessica McMann), Christian Vistan (writer for Katie Cassady), Elysse Cloma (writer for Joshua Ongcol).

Ancillary Artists

Showing of in-process dance works

Moderated by Angela Cooper
with
Jennifer Aoki, Juolin Lee, Simran Sachar with Sophia Gamboa and Sharon Lee, and Marissa Wong

Nov 5, 2020

Ancillary Artists Conversation:

Dance Artists & Writers

April 1 @ 1pm

Moderated by Angela Cooper with


Jennifer Aoki,

Juolin Lee,

Simran Sachar with Sophia Gamboa and Sharon Lee,

Anaheed Saatchi, 

Yana Schwannecke 

and Marissa Wong

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PROGRAM

Visual Recording by Juolin Lee below

Dance Makers & Authors in Conversation

APRIL 15 @ 2PM 

MODERATED BY

ALYSSA AMARSHI
WITH
PETER DICKINSON WITH
JUSTINE A. CHAMBERS
AND ZIYIAN KWAN
AHALYA SATKUNARATNAM

WITH GUEST ARTIST
FROM SRI LANKA
SAHILTINIYE
CELESTINE ALECK
WITH HOLLY BRIGHT

Mentors

Selected by the Artists

  • Jill Henis

    mentoring Jennifer Aoki

  • Natalie Tin Yin Gan

    mentoring Juolin Lee

  • Chick Snipper

    mentoring Marissa Wong

  • Lee Su-Feh

    mentoring Simran Sachar

Ancillary Project Writer

  • Anaheed Saatchi

    Anaheed Saatchi writes fiction, creative nonfiction and covers themes of sustainable community building, diaspora, the outdoors industry and identity politics as a freelance journalist. They are a settler on the unceded territories of the šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmaɁɬ təməxʷ (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh-ulh Temíx̱w (Squamish) and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. They’ve written for various publications including The Malahat Review, Melanin Base Camp and The Alpinist.

  • Yana Schwannecke

    Yana Schwannecke is a German-Chinese illustrator who graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver in 2019. Her artistic practice in illustration touches on cultural displacement and the splicing of cultural and personal environments. The inspiration for this stemmed from a mixed cultural upbringing in the United States, Germany, and Singapore before living in Canada at age 18. Her practice also wandered into the realm of curation, having curated two group shows at ECU in Vancouver. She is currently living Düsseldorf, Germany where she is pursuing a MA in Art History at Heinrich-Heine-University. Due to this endeavor, Yana is spending less time illustrating and more time doing art historical research, and exploring her interest in the history of the representation of romantic love in the western didactic of art.

Booklet of Essays

Re-Centering/Margins 2020-21

Ancillary Project

Essays by Anaheed Saatchi, Yana Schwannecke,Mariko Tanabe and Jennifer Aoki

Foreword by Aina Yasué and Angela Cooper

Dance Artists:

Jennifer Aoki; Juolin Lee; Simran Sachar, Sophia Gamboa, Sharon Lee; Marissa Wong

Re-Centering/Margins and the Ancillary Project are generously funded by:

City of Vancouver

RB Foundation

and thank you to Tara Cheyenne Performance for your generosity

Project 686km

PROJECT 686km is developed by Springboard Performance and Made in BC – Dance on Tour, with additional funding and administrative support from the CanDance Network, and offers artist-driven discussions with dance work in-progress sharings.

Artists selected for Project 686km Artistic Exchange, Calgary –Vancouver: 

Sabrina “Naz” Comanescu, Jason Owin F. Galeos, and Jessica McMann worked with 2019 MiBC residency Artists Eric Cheung, Kristy Janvier, and Zahra Shahab.

The exchange culminated in a virtual showing as apart of Configurations in Motion: Performance Curation and Communities of Color 4th iteration on October 16th, 2020.

You can read the program here.