A rhythmic ensemble, a conjoined globular form; each body a cog in a machine unaware of their dependence on one another. They’ve moved this way for years; the light is just now illuminating this static machine. One cog breaks out, shattering the cluster. In its ruin, each piece gains sentience.
Shion Skye Carter (she/they) is a dance artist from Gifu, Japan, based in so-called Vancouver, Canada. Through choreography hybridized with heritage art forms such as Japanese calligraphy that interact with digital and sculptural objects, Shion’s work looks inward to the facets of their intersectional identity as a lens to process the external world. Recent presentations of their performances and dance films include The Dance Centre (Vancouver), Tangente (Montréal), Kinetic Studio (Halifax), Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), CAPSULE by the National Arts Centre (Ottawa/online), and International Portrait Film Festival (Bulgaria), among others.
Hina Nishioka (she/her) is a lighting designer based in the lower mainland of BC. Originally from Japan, she enjoys exploring projects with a variety of cultural backgrounds whether from the company or project itself. Her recent lighting design credits include Yaga (Touchstone Theatre), Kwê (Jeanette Kotowich), and Threading Echoes (Shion Skye Carter + collaborators).
Stefan Andrei Nazarevich (he/him) is an artist based in Vancouver, Canada. His compositions, performances, and installations utilize meticulous, architectural music production in order to turn emergent artifacts of failing technology into aesthetic sonic objects, inspired by retro sci-fi, anime, and the glitches in the Matrix. A frequent interdisciplinary collaborator, Stefan has composed for dance artists including Noam Gagnon (Vision Impure), Anya Saugstad, Josh Beamish (MOVE The Company), Wen Wei Wang, and Ralph Escamillan (FakeKnot). Presentations of his music include Vancouver International Dance Festival (2019), Vines Art Festival (2020), and the Darmstadt International Summer Course (2018, Germany).
Erika Mitsuhashi is an interdisciplinary artist and performer living and working in so-called Vancouver, British Columbia. Erika’s work has taken the form of performance for stage, installation, experimental film, site specific/responsive performance, scenography and projection design. Most recently she has been experimenting with live-stream video and digital spaces as sites for intimacy and choreography of attention. Her works have been presented by PAUL Studios Berlin, Powell Street Festival, Toronto Love-In, rEvolver Festival, and OFFTA.
Kayla De Vos (she/they) is a human being made of approximately 7 octillion (7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) atoms. Kayla organizes her atoms to laugh, cry, drink coffee, rest, create dance, hike, and produce shows and festivals.
Juolin Lee is a Taiwanese-Canadian emerging dance artist who is fascinated by the transformative power of dance. She has the pleasure to work with Natalie TY Gan, Ziyian Kwan, Arash Khakpour, Emmalena Fredriksson, Zahra Shahab and other artists she greatly admires. Through openness and curiosity in movement, she wishes to continuously unpack her idea of self.
Danielle Mackenzie Long (they/them), a queer emerging interdisciplinary dance artist resides in so-called “Vancouver”. They have worked for Co.ERASGA, Francesca Frewer, Company 605, Oksana Augustine, and Chimerik 似不像 Collective. danielle’s work has been supported and presented internationally with Birmingham International Dance Festival, and nationally with New Works, F-O-R-M, Capsule (in partnership with National Arts Centre/F-O-R-M), Digit Carnival Z, Screen:Moves, and NextFest.
Natalia Martineau (she/her) is an emerging dance artist based in Vancouver, on the unceded Coast Salish territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Currently, Natalia is interested in expanding the physical bounds of her dance practice and using sensation to uncover her body’s intrinsic movement pathways.
Myah McCarthy (she/her) is an artist residing on the stolen ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, colonially known as Vancouver, British Columbia. Myah is a recent SFU Dance graduate, whose focus is to remain curious while approaching her artistic practice with presence and authenticity.
Quinn Muylaert (she/her) is an emerging dance artist raised in Port Perry, Ontario, on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation. In 2019, Quinn came to study contemporary dance at SFU in Vancouver, and has since been trying to push the limits of her technical training to shapeshift using inspiration from the artists around her.
Tamar Zehava Tabori (she/her) is an emerging dance and video artist. Holding a BFA in Contemporary Dance from Montreal’s Concordia University, she has danced in productions across Canada and internationally, performing on stage and on screen. Tamar’s experimental short dance films have screened at over 15 festivals worldwide.
Kaya Tsurumi (she/her) is a Japanese Filipina contemporary dance artist who grew up on Kwikwetlem First Nations territory (Coquitlam, BC). Kaya received her post-secondary dance education from Arts Umbrella and Modus Operandi. She is curious about the convergence between film, photography, and movement, and premiered her short film, “Peace Piece” in F-O-R-M 2022.
Shana 愛 Ai Wolfe (she/her) is a Japanese-Canadian dance artist currently based in so-called Vancouver, Canada on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and Səl̓ílwətaʔ Nations. She completed the Arts Umbrella Graduate Program in 2017 and joined Ballet BC as an apprentice for their 2017/2018 season performing “BILL” by Sharon Eyal throughout England and Germany. In 2018 she attended Springboard Danse Montreal and since then has been freelancing with OURO Collective, The Falling Company, Company 605 and with artists such as Cindy Mochizuki, Lisa Mariko Gelley, Anya Saugstad and Justin Calvadores. Her own work has been shown through Vines Art Festival, the.response’s Dance Cafe, Co.ERASGA’s Winter Salon and The Dance Centre’s Reboot Program. She was recently a dancer for the Edmonton Opera’s performance of Orphée+ with choreographer Nicole Von Arx and directed by Joel Ivany.
