Rachel Meyer (she, her) grew up in Illinois, trained with St. Louis Ballet and the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance. She received her BFA at the University of Utah and was awarded a Princess Grace Award in 2010. Rachel has been a member of the Utah Regional Ballet, Dominic Walsh Dance Theatre, the Michael Clark Company, and Ballet BC. As an independent choreographer, she has presented four full length, site-specific works from 2017- 2023, and created commissioned works for Ballet Edmonton in 2019 and EDAM in 2024.
Eowynn Enquist (she/her) is a 4th generation settler of Irish, French, English, and German descent, incredibly grateful to be living and working on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
As a free-lance dancer Eowynn has worked with companies and independent choreographers such as: Action at a Distance, Anne Plamondon Productions, Anya Saugstad, Corporeal Imago, Cristina Bucci, Daria Mikhaylyuk, Heather Myers, Isak Enquist, Kinesis Dance Somatheatro, Mahaila Paterson-O’Brien, Mascall Dance, Nicole Von Arc for Edmonton Opera’s Orphee+, Out Innerspace Dance Theatre, Rachel Meyer, Radical System Art, Vision Impure Compagnie, and Wen Wei Dance.
Recently Eowynn has been an interpreter in independent films premiered at: Vancouver Asian Film Festival 2023, Vancouver International Film Festival 2023, Festival of Recorded Movement 2022, Made in Canada festival 2023, Innovate showcase 2023, Zêzere Cinedança Festival 2023, Emily Carr Graduating Series 2025 and additional commercial/tv acting.
Raised in Victoria BC, Ariana Barr (she, her) has nurtured her love of dance and expression since the age of six. Ariana’s formal training began at the Pacific Dance Center and continued through the Arts Umbrella Graduate Program. In addition to performing with Ballet Edmonton for six seasons under the artistic direction of Wen Wei Wang, Ariana has also performed with several Vancouver-based companies including Inverso Productions, Vision Impure, Belle Spirale, Rachel Meyer, Wen Wei Dance and Joshua Beamish/MOVETHECOMPANY. In 2023, Ariana was honored to receive the Edmonton Artist’s Trust Fund Award for her contributions to the Edmonton arts community. Ariana now lives and dances as a guest on the traditional, unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples. She is deeply grateful to spend her life being shaped, continuously, both by the people she works with and by the transformative power of movement itself.
James Maxwell (he, him) is a composer of concert music and music for contemporary dance, theatre, film, and media, and is Artistic Co-Director of Restless Productions. Recent works include Migration, for Fight With a Stick performance, Mama, do we die when we sleep?, by choreographer Rachel Meyer, The Razor Hiss of a Whisper, for Turning Point Ensemble and Couloir. Upcoming and in-progress works include new collaborations with Fight With a Stick Performance and Helen Walkley, a new work for Tempest Flute Choir, and a new interdisciplinary performance project with Restless Productions. When not organizing sounds James hits things as the drummer of post/avant-rock quartet Square. James is also an active researcher, developer, and entrepreneur in the field of Computational Creativity. His doctoral work explored the design and development of computer-assisted composition tools, with a focus on using intelligent, adaptive systems as compositional “collaborators.”
James Proudfoot (he, him) is a lighting designer/ lighting director based in Vancouver, Canada.
He is originally from Edinburgh, Scotland, where he received his initial theatre training. Self-taught in the realm of dance lighting, he has contributed designs to many artists and companies over the past 25 years.
James is grateful to live and work on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
