Dance In Vancouver
Vancouver, Canada
14 - 18 Oct '09
Wednesday October 14
7pm Performance Program One: MovEnt + plastic orchid factory + Rob Kitsos & Dancers
9pm Performance Program Two: Animals of Distinction + The 605 Collective
Thursday October 15
7pm Performance Program Three: Sara Coffin + MOVE: the company + MACHiNENOiSY
9pm Performance Program Four: Co. ERASGA + Kinesis Dance
Satellite event: performances at the Firehall Arts Centre: Joe Ink and Serge Bennathan, 7pm + 9pm
Friday October 16
9.30am-12.30pm Perspectives on Cultural Diversity Panel & moderated roundtable discussion with Michelle Olson (Raven Spirit Dance), Lee Su-Feh (battery opera) and guests.
1.30-3pm Dancing here, there and everywhere..... A workshop on touring for dance artists, with Jim Smith (Eponymous/DanceHouse) and Martha Rans (Artists' Legal Outreach Clinic of the Alliance for Arts and Culture). Presented by the Dancer Transition Resource Centre. Free to DTRC members, $10 non-members. Registration: 604.899.0755
4-5pm Experiments: an interactive preview. LINK Dance explores the ideas of behavioral ecologists from Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia on the connection between dance and science through their upcoming work, Experiments. An audience-driven critical response dialogue will be led by acclaimed American dance artist Liz Lerman following the showing. Presented by LINK Dance Foundation and SFU Centre for Dialogue.
5-7pm Reception and Meet & Greet
7pm Performance Program Four: Co. ERASGA + Kinesis Dance
9pm Performance Program Three: Sara Coffin + MOVE: the company + MACHiNENOiSY
Satellite events: performances at the Firehall Arts Centre: Joe Ink and Serge Bennathan, 7pm + 9pm. Performance at the Kay Meek Centre, West Vancouver: Wen Wei Dance, 8pm
Saturday October 17
1-1.30pm Open rehearsal: aerial dance company Aeriosa shows excerpts of a new work on the outside wall of Scotiabank Dance Centre, followed by an artist talkback
2-2.45pm Studio showing: two works by emerging artist Jennifer Clarke
2.45-3.45pm Artist/Presenter Roundtable with DIV curator Roberto Casarotto and guests: curatorial processes in dance
4.15-6.15pm Artist-presenter pitch session: presented by the CanDance network at the Rosedale on Robson Hotel
7pm Performance Program Two: Animals of Distinction + The 605 Collective
9pm Performance Program One: MovEnt + plastic orchid factory + Rob Kitsos & Dancers
Satellite event: performances at the Firehall Arts Centre: Joe Ink and Serge Bennathan, 7pm + 9pm
Sunday November 18
11am-1pm: informal individual artist-presenter dialogues
1.30-5pm CanDance and the BC regional presenters host a dance community dialogue session, at the Rosedale on Robson. Limited space availability
4pm Dance DemoCamp: Choreographers Julie Lebel and Miriam Colvin host a public showing of a project where choreographers make work in an intensive 'un-conference' environment
7pm Performance Program Five: Karen Jamieson Dance
Background Information
his biennial event provides a unique opportunity to sample the work of a wide range of artists and companies and to network with peers (promoters, dance artists, presenters, festival directors, agents and other dance professionals) from across Canada and internationally - through a range of formal and informal encounters, all providing opportunities to explore artistic collaboration and exchange information. We have now added a fifth performance program featuring Karen Jamieson Dance, one of BC's most enduring and distinctive companies. There will be open rehearsals with Aeriosa Dance and the exciting young artist Jennifer Clarke, roundtables exploring issues around cultural diversity and the curatorial process, and more!
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