Trail Mix / For on the Floor

Trail Mix is a work in progress that is influenced by the desire to heal our inner child while using train tracks to explore transitions, and ways to transport and transform. Building, rebuilding, deconstructing, and repeating. Following pathways that are laid out for us, and being redirected by new pathways, causing interruptions and turbulence. Exploring the confines of structure in both the tracks and our bodies, and finding fluidity, adaptability, and change within it. Through exploring what it means to embody a “train” body and a “track” body, we will become our own trains and tracks on our own journeys built for nobody but ourselves. By breaking societal and gender constructs, we break free from the track that somebody else has built for us.

@oh_augustine


For on the Floor is an immersive dance/theatre experience that centres the transfer of memory and experience through the transformative properties of vintage clothing both inanimate or…otherwise. Spectator/performer lines are blurred as audience and cast alike embark on their own transformations navigating the cartoonish and the corporeal.

@jamncamrn

Photos courtesy of artists

Bio

Oh Augustine (they/them) is an emerging contemporary dance artist based on the unceded lands of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, and səl̓ílwətaʔ Nations. They trained with Modus Operandi for four years, completing their post secondary contemporary dance education. Oh has had the opportunity to partake in rehearsals with Chimerik 似不像 Collective, Okam’s Racer, Co.ERASGA, danielle Mackenzie Long and Zahra Shahab, and performed in the EDAM Choreographic Series. Their work focuses on neurodivergence, gender exploration, spirituality, and sensation. Their work has been showcased in 12 Minutes Max, Boombox, Chalk It Up!, and Studio Salon Series. Currently, Oh has been working as a choreographer in an original play “Tomboy” written by Anais West.

Alder Mauria Orest Graye (he/him) is a movement artist residing on the unceded lands of the xwməθkwəyə̓ m, Sḵwxw̱ ú7mesh, and Selí̓lw̓ itulh Nations. Receiving his post-secondary training through Modus Operandi, he has had the privilege of working with and learning from fantastic artists and choreographers including Tiffany Tregarthen, David Raymond, Kate Franklin, Zahra Shahab, Francesca Frewer, Hayley Gawthrop, danielle Mackenzie Long, Vanessa Goodman, and many others. As a trans person who is navigating the experience of physically shapeshifting while working in a medium that requires deep connection to the body, Alder’s practice is currently focused on his desires to playfully expand boundaries, tell effective stories, and approach the unfamiliar with tenderness.

Throughout his 15 year artistic practice, Josh Cameron (he/him) has primarily focused on researching and developing in Street, Club and Cultural Dance with emphasis on Breaking, Hip Hop, and House. He has a deep and long standing practice of immersing himself in the complex and diverse facets of cultural gatherings including but not limited to battles, clubbing, Ballroom events, and traditional knowledge transfer from Pioneers and Innovators worldwide. Josh’s unique approach to dance stems from his synthesis of Street Dance foundations with extensive training in Martial Arts as well as a wide variety of Contemporary and experimental movement modalities.

Grace Richter (She/Her) is a Canadian born emerging dancer/performer, and budding choreographer and teacher currently represented by Premiere Talent Management in Vancouver BC. Grace grew up studying Ballet, Jazz, Contemporary, Hip Hop, Musical Theatre and Improvisation in Red Deer, AB. Training anywhere she could, Grace was also a student online in Teddy Forance’s CLI Studios Program, as well as many notable conventions and workshops. She seizes every opportunity to learn, grow and perform – notably and gratefully including Harbour Dance Centres’ Intensive Training Program, and as a choreographer for Carlo Atienza’s Quill Collective.

    Trail Mix - Oh Augustine
    Trail Mix - Oh Augustine
    Trail Mix - Oh Augustine
    Trail Mix - Oh Augustine
    For on the Floor / Joshua Cameron
    For on the Floor / Joshua Cameron
    For on the Floor / Joshua Cameron
    For on the Floor / Joshua Cameron
    Trail Mix - Oh Augustine

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