Pam Tzeng & Deanna Peters

Amanda Acorn & Lisa Gelley

Tasha Faye Evans & Natalie LeFebvre Gnam

A procedural collapse of dance practice, to find new energy and perspectives in our interests.

Pam

to sense in-to the ephemeral and untenable;
to meander in practice of naming of things;
to acknowledge

to unlearn
ways of being that atrophy

my and y/our inherit agency
the depths and joys of my and y/our entwined realities.

to be (in) the undoing.

Amanda

Use the eyes of a sensitive observer Explore the eyes as soft puddles of feeling in your skull Touch with the eyes and attune to pleasure through your seeing May your seeing awaken your skin May your skin enliven your being Open your ears Hear with the same intensity as your looking Be with the others or rather notice the WITHness that is already happening Practice empathy as a way of feeling through the other Vibe with the things Ask the things where they’d like to go Take them there Build magic Vibe with the people Vibe with the space you are in Deepen Expand Keep going Sense the rhythm of things Sense the rhythm of the beings Dance the music Repeat Insist Adapt Be in a soft rigor Create a container for feeling Vibrate with the overwhelm Joyful saturation Feel the wind Rest Build a garden with your body Be still in precarity

Natalie

H+N remixed on a cadence of 157 days (only spaces)

(empty space)
the space between August and 25
between has and as
after personal and before professional
between week and beginning early
between assuming and you
(empty space)
the space after a date and before a time
(empty space)
before extra and after needing
between process and individual
(empty space)
between you and have
the space after us

Pam Tzeng is a Canadian Taiwanese choreographer based in Mohkinstsis colonially known as Calgary. Pam takes pleasure in extremes to craft humourous, visceral and urgent dances about the politics of the body with objects: pamtzeng.com

Deanna Peters/Mutable Subject creates for the stage, screen, web, print and DIY spaces. It’s all dance: mutablesubject.ca

Amanda Acorn is an artist and facilitator based in Tkaronto, Canada. She creates intimate, sensorial encounters and responsive environments for embodied exchange.

Lisa Mariko Gelley is an artist and mother, grateful to be living and working on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples.

Tasha Faye Evans is a dance and theatre artist from a legacy of Coast Salish, Welsh and European Jewish grandparents. Her career continues to be a collection of collaborations and performances with national and international Indigenous artists, including her new dance solo Cedar Woman in collaboration with carver Ocean Hyland.

Natalie LeFebvre Gnam lives, dances and raises her children on the unceded land of the xwməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səlil̓ilw̓ ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) people. She is working on new-futuring: plasticorchidfactory.com