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23 Nov

Posted November 23, 2020

Jessica McMann is a Cree (Cowessess, SK) musician, contemporary dancer and choreographer. She is also a classically trained flutist, with a Bachelor of Music from the University of Calgary. Her research focus has been contemporary music, jazz, and improvisation. She has successfully defended her thesis for her MFA  - Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University in 2019.  Her recent compositions and...

23 Nov

Posted November 23, 2020

Born in Germany, Katharina grew up in Calgary training from a young age at Alberta Ballet School. Katharina has pursued further intensive  training at  The National Ballet of Canada, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, The Ailey School (USA), and Harbour Dance Center.  While obtaining her BFA in Contemporary Dance from the Boston Conservatory (2016 summa cum laude), Katharina performed in works by...

23 Nov

Posted November 23, 2020

Kara is a movement-based artist of Filipina and German heritage. She has received training from a range of institutions including studying dance at the Ailey School in New York City, apprenticing with Amber Funk-Barton’s company, the Response, in Vancouver, studying Intro to Conflict Resolution at Mount Royal University, and taking part in Momo Movement’s Inclusive and Accessible Movement Teacher Training. Highlights in her teaching...

23 Nov

Posted November 23, 2020

Justine A. Chambers is a dance artist living and working on the unceded Coast Salish territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Her movement based practice considers how choreography can be an empathic practice rooted in collaborative creation, close observation, and the body as a site of a cumulative embodied archive. Privileging what is felt over what is seen,...

24 Aug

Posted August 24, 2020

Rosanna Terracciano experiments within and around the boundaries of flamenco, dance, contemporary performance and short film, driven by an urgency to expose the vulnerable and introverted aspects of flamenco dance. Critical to her art practice is her identity as an Italian-Canadian born in Calgary, dedicated to uncovering the many possibilities of flamenco and to giving place to her work and...

01 May

Posted May 1, 2020

Jacob Niedzweicki is a filmmaker and programmer whose work fuses movement, media, and code. A former professional ballet dancer, his short dance films have exhibited in festivals around the world, and his online videos (Who By Fire, Spike Solutions) have seen hundreds of thousands of plays. He directed the National Ballet of Canada’s marathon World Ballet Day 2014 & 2015...

03 Nov

Posted November 3, 2019

Liz Burney is a Calgary based emerging dance artist. In 2017 she graduated from the University of Calgary with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Contemporary Dance with Distinction. While in the BFA program, Liz extensively studied contemporary dance with local professional artists as well as international guest artists. During her degree, she had the opportunity to perform works by:...

03 Nov

Posted November 3, 2019

Melissa has recently graduated from the University of Calgary where she received her BFA in Dance. During her undergraduate studies she performed in MainStage pieces by professional choreographers Wojciech Mochniej, Tania Alvarado, Gerry Trentham, and Michèle Moss, as well as in Surge Co. by W&M. Some of her work includes “Platypus”, “Sick Artery and Red Blood Vessels”, “Coalesce”, and “Claws”...

02 Nov

Posted November 2, 2019

“As a dancer my aim is to move people, to get people to feel through building an empathetic connection to the physicality of another. The connection between performer and audience is at the core of the work, which starts from a fascination for the possibilities of the dancing body, and explores how complex coordinations can affect how we experience emotion.” At...

02 Nov

Posted November 2, 2019

In 2011, very early in my career, I was blessed with my first choreographic residency DSW AIR. A lucky eight years later I am humbled to once again have time and space to reimagine my practice through DSW AIR reincarnate. Time + Space to incubate. Time + Space to delight in experimentation. Time + Space to embrace a more tender approach. Time + Space...