Past

created by: Mardon + Mitsuhashi

Venue: The Theatre Centre - Lobby

AUGUST 5, 4:00 PM / AUGUST 6, 12:00 & 6:30 PM / AUGUST 7, 3:00 PM

Tickets HERE

How do the institutions we inhabit every day impose their realities and histories upon us?

How might we gesture towards other ways of inhabiting these spaces?

TOUR plays the line between rapid-fire absurdity and quiet sincerity. In this work, dancers take the audience on a guided tour of a space, while drawing on their own understanding of its history. Along this improvised tour the performers share their “instantaneous expertise” on the history of objects, their surroundings as well as their own bodies and personal histories.

TOUR treats facts and fiction, dance and pedestrian movement, truth and performance with reverence and irreverence. This piece draws audience attention to how we are choreographed by spaces and what dominant stories or histories are shared.

Dancers: Devon Snell, Roberto Soria, Andrea Cownden, Bynh Ho, Production support: Sierra Megas

I am excited to be facilitating a conversation series along with New Works and Dance West Network for a virtual Conversation Series with dance artists Eric Cheung and Kevin Li; and XR mentors Ian Garrett and Jacob Niedzwiecki.

These conversations are a culmination of New Works’ XR Pilot Program, supporting dance artists to explore various technologies under the umbrella of XR (extended reality). The 2021 artists engaged with 360 video and point cloud capturing, respectively, in an artist-led process alongside two core XR mentors. The conversations will look at the various practices of each of the artists and mentors, with a focus on how they have integrated and explored technology into their dance and/or art practice. Spanning DIY approaches to formal learning strategies, the conversations will follow an open format. We welcome participant-led engagement and discussion.

These online gatherings are an extension of DWN’s DIY conversations series which highlight how dance and media artists are creating on their own, and how this ‘do it yourself’ mode of working is supporting and expanding their artistic practices. The conversations are open to folks with any level of familiarity with XR, dance and technology. Active and passive participation in the conversations is encouraged and the chat will be monitored for additional questions.

The XR Conversation Series will be held on Zoom, followed by an in-person sharing of works in progress with the artists, at Progress Lab (1422 William St, Vancouver, BC V5L 2P7). See details here to register. If you have any questions, please email Sierra at sierra@newworks.ca.

Dance West Network x New Works XR Conversation Series

I am excited to share that I am the Program Coordinator of a pilot artist support program created in collaboration with New Works taking place over the coming 6 months and is designed to connect dance artists with extended reality (XR) technologists and mentors in a catered learning environment to support artists’  projects. We have currently put out an Open Call for artists to apply to the program and the full details are up on the New Works website here

We also have an information session coming up on June 14th at 5PM PST, with our program coordinators and our core team of XR mentors/consultants via Zoom, for a chance to learn more and open space to answer questions. Please get in touch with Sierra Megas at sierra@newworks.ca to arrange.

Thank you for taking the time and please don’t hesitate to reach out to me at: erika@newworks.ca for further questions.

(May 24th – 31st, 2021)

New Works presents Past Echoes in the Present, a multi-disciplinary online and open-air exhibition that is accessible and interactive. The low-barrier cultural experience is in honour of Asian Heritage Month in Canada and features works by: Crossmaneuver, Erika Mitsuhashi, FakeKnot, Immigrant Lessons, Joshua Ongcol, Kevin “Shazam” Li, Ne. Sans opera and dance, Sarah Wong, and TWObigsteps Collective.

More information HERE

Duration: 25 mins

From February 2-6, visit a durational, 24-hour live-stream of the microcosm. Audiences are invited to come and go as they wish.

MICROCOSM

Registrants will be sent a link to the live stream of the performance via your daily Speculative Futures newsletter.

PushOFF Speculative Futures

More information on Making it up: The Meeting

Where are the dances right now and how do these dances want to behave/exist/interface in a digital plane? Erika Mitsuhashi asks these questions through an experimental livestream experience, Making It Up: The Meeting. Playfully using a livestream video feed and DIY-sonography, Erika reveals an imaginative microcosm: a world built in isolation, where a sacred meeting ensues between a cosmic vibrant-being and their assigned flesh-being on Earth. This is complemented by Being(s) in plain site, a collection of visual and text-based reflections – part-photo essay, part-blog.

Durational livestream: February 2-6, 2021

Performance livestream: February 5, 2021 | 2pm PST

WATCH HERE

Livestreams presented as part of PushOFF 2021: Speculative Futures.

READ THE BLOG HERE

THE DANCE CENTRE

Made in BC’s ARTS IN SITE VIRTUAL SYMPOSIUM 2.0

Creating performance interventions outside

November 16th, 18th, and 20th, 2020

To register, email olivia@madeinbc.org

Friday November 20 10am-12pm PST / 1pm-3pm EST

Where It Takes Us – Sharing Moving Stories of Site, Memory, and Witnessing

Alexa Mardon & Erika Mitsuhashi / MARDON + MITSUHASHI; Anya Saugstad; Kelly McInnes and Rianne Svelnis; Noemí Segarra Ramírez / PISO; Solène Bossu / Les Parleuses; Shana Wolfe; Melissa Riker / Kinesis.

Circle Conversation Topic: Spatial Awareness — when dance and social experimentation meet to bring about new experiences of public sites and more.

the response. featuring Various Artists

Instagram Live via @response.dance

PERFORMANCE DATES

July 4 & July 5 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm Instagram Live via @response.dance

July 4

1pm – Ted Littlemore (12 mins)

2pm – Olivia C. Davies

3pm – Tia Kushniruk (8-10 mins)

4pm – Erika Mitsuhashi

July 5

1pm – Olivia Shaffer (8-13 mins)

2pm – Daria Mikhaylyuk

3pm – Ileanna Cheladyn (10 mins)

4pm – Marisa Gold (5 mins)

Dance Café was launched by the response in 2017 with the goal of fostering, supporting and sharing unfinished contemporary dance works by professional dance artists in the Vancouver community. This presentation has always been informal and intimate without the pressure of production values (except for the playing of music/sound) and it has always been offered to the community for free.

The duration of the work can be anywhere from 1 to 20 minutes. Dance works shared by Choreographers are ‘unfinished’ and/or ideas they are in the process of developing or simply interested in. The company strives to have Choreographers share their work without judgement or expectation. In a gesture of absolute trust, the company does not view any of the work prior to the event nor require the Choreographers to submit any information to what they will share. Dance Café is always a surprise and the ultimate form of show and tell!

Curator: Amber Funk Barton

Co-Curator: Kaia Shukin

Running Time: Multiple showings ranging from 5-20 mins

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PRESENTED BY plastic orchid factory

January 28, 29, 30 5pm

February 6, 9:30pm + February 7, 5pm

Left of Main, 211 Keefer Street, Historic Chinatown

A platform for experiments-in-prosses showing during the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. Now in its 3rd incarnation, Left of PuSh #3 offers 3 mixed bills by local and visiting artists working across disciplines.

#1: January 28 + 29 > 5pm

Experiment #4 featuring works by James Gnam / plastic orchid factory + Thea Patterson + Marie France Forcier, Melanie Kloetzel / ReLoCate + Nikki Carter.

A BC—Alberta migration project initiatied by ReLoCate, makes space for experimental works that chart new pathways through the questions of resilience, delineating how the body and its radical performances can illustrate empowered – and potentially surprising – prospects for individuals, species and communities.

#2: January 30 > 5pm

New research by olive theory (interdisciplinary duo Shion Skye Carter and Stefan Nazarevich) examines the relationship between nature and artificiality, contrasting the embodied and the semi-organic with the synthesized and purely electrical.

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Francophone theatre artist, Gilles Poulin-Denis / productions 2par4 confronts the end of his life by attempting to make his last-ever piece, right now. The Swan Song. The Farewell Tour.

#3: February 6 > 9:30pm + February 7 > 5pm

A new work in progress by Bo Dyp centred around the thunderbird. Kwanxwalaogwa, one who possesses thunder is rooted in Bo’s ancestral name, Kwanxwalaogwa and the spirit in Kwakwaka'wakw culture known to connect the spiritual world with the physical. Bo works from their developed practice as a non-binary drag artist from the Dzawada'enuxw nation, to explore their culture and their intersectional position in body politics.

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Erika Mitsuhashi and Francesca Frewer examine the precarious space between otherness and togetherness. When we find ourselves faced with fundamental uncertainty, how do we make sense of ourselves, our perceptions, and one another? With movement, text, and theatrical artifice, they use these questions to explore ideas surrounding agency and subjectivity.

Tickets **capacity is limited, advanced reservation is recommended**

Associated Events

Left of PuSh was designed with a self-curated PuSh experience in mind. We encourage you to check out PuSh Festival's offerings and make a whole day of it. One needs to stay out of the rain somehow!

Production team: Heather Barr, Natalie LeFebvre Gnam and Gabriel Raminhos

A plastic orchid factory initiative.

2020 PuSh INTERNATIONAL PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL

January 22–24, 8pm

Artist Talk Jan 25 3PM

60 mins, no intermission

Western Front, 303 East 8th Ave, Vancouver

PRESENTED WITH WESTERN FRONT

Six dancers, some very distinctive costumes and a set of unspoken rules; those are the basic elements of this performance, but listing them doesn’t begin to do justice to its humour, sophistication and originality. Idealverein is a game of sorts; it’s played in teams of three, and it involves a mixture of improv and strict rules. There are moments of grace, moments of awkwardness, moments that may elicit a guffaw…

And then there are the costumes, which dominate the stage and dictate much of the action: metal hardware, sausages, boiled eggs, lipstick, fake hair and much more have gone into their making, and they’re clearly the work of an original talent. The players wear large tan aprons and individually tailored footwear that serve to define their movements; these “costume-objects,” as their creator calls them, speak to the show’s fetishistic ritualism—and to its impish sense of fun.

DANCERS Alison Denham, Ed Spence, Ralph Escamillan, Erika Mitsuhashi, Germaine Koh, Kate Franklin CHOREOGRAPHY Justine Chambers, Mike Bourscheid COSTUMES AND PROPS Mike Bourscheid DIRECTOR Mike Bourscheid in collaboration with Western Front

DANCE IN VANCOUVER OPENING EVENTS

Mardon + Mitsuhashi
Wednesday November 20 | 7.30pm, 9.30pm FREE REGISTER HERE
Scotiabank Dance Centre | DIV Lounge
In Alexa Mardon + Erika Mitsuhashi’s TOUR, performers act as tour guides, leading an audience through the space and making short stops on the way to share their “instantaneous expertise” on the history of objects, their surroundings, and their own bodies and personal histories.

Performers: Andrea Cownden and Byhn Ho

To reserve your showcase tickets for Nov 15, 18 & 19 for the MiBC Creative Residency for BIPOC emerging dance artists in advance, please go to:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/mibc-creative-residency-program/x/22382466#/

Tickets are also available at the door: $10cash, and under 16 FREE.

Please join us for the showcase of work by the MiBC BIPOC emerging artists Eric Cheung, Kristy Janvier, and Zahra Shahab at the conclusion of their seven-month residency.

As well as excerpts of work by artists in the creative residency ancillary project. Artists include: Shion Carter, Angela Cooper, Be Heintzman Hope, Luciana Fortes, Immigrant Lessons, Kevin Li, Leah McKesey, Erika Mitsuhashi, Marissa Wong.

November 15th 8pm:
Kristy Rae (Kristy Janvier)
with
Luciana Fortes
Leah McFly-Waackeisha
Immigrant Lessons
Be Heintzman Hope

November 18th 8pm:
Zahra Ahmad (Zahra Shahab)
with
Erika Mitsuhashi
Shion Skye Carter
Angela Cooper

November 19th 8pm:
Eric Cheung
with
Marissa Wong
Kevin Shazam Li

ALSO JOIN US UPSTAIRS 6-7pm Nov 15 & 18 for pitch/showcase of the 2019 Des Arts Dehors/Arts Outside artists in the KW Studios, Atrium studio (free)
https://www.madeinbc.org/about-dadao/

All performances at KW Studios: Production Studio (Basement)
#10 – 111 Hastings St W.

Production studio is wheelchair accessible by elevators to the right of the KW entrance (through one set of glass doors). When you come to the event – a staff member will guide you through the elevator and basement hallway to the studio.

https://www.madeinbc.org/2019-creative-residency/

The MiBC Creative Residency is supported by the 2018 Creative City Strategic Grant funded by the City of Vancouver’s Art, Culture and Community Services Department with the support of the following studios: Left of Main, Mascall Dance Society, Gold Saucer, WhatLab, KW Studio.

DADAO / Des Arts Dehors, Arts Outside (5th edition)

MEET THE ARTISTS Showcase/Pitch event

MiBC Des Arts Dehors / Arts Outside project provides opportunities and professional development over a seven month program that has proven success in supporting the development of new site-specific works for BC communities.

This “Meet the Artists” event includes Vancouver-based artists presenting performance excerpts with video highlights of francophone artists based in France/Vancouver and Quebec.

Fri Nov 15, 6:00pm-7:00pm
Kelly McInnes & Rianne Svelnis
Mardon + Mitsuhashi
with video showcase highlighting work by DADAO artists:
Caroline Laurin-Beaucage (QC)
Fleuve | Espace danse (QC)
Solène Bossu (Paris & Vancouver)

Mon Nov 18, 4:30pm-6:00pm
Lily Cryan
Isabelle Kirouac & Nayana Fielkov
Olivia Shaffer
with video showcase highlighting work by DADAO artists

DADAO / Des Arts Dehors, Arts Outside (5th edition)

While this 5th edition of DADAOremains centered on francophone artists and communities, MiBC has begun a pilot project in 2019-20 that includes a limited number of non-francophone artists to support even more site-specific works engaging with BC communities.

madeinbc.org/about-dadao/

2019-20 Participating artists include five Francophone artists and three non-francophone artists: Solène Bossu - Compagnie Les parleuses (Paris & Vancouver), Lily Cryan (Vancouver, non-francophone), Fleuve | Espace danse (QC), Isabelle Kirouac (Vancouver francophone artist), Caroline Laurin-Beaucage (QC), Alexa Mardon & Erika Mitsuhashi (Vancouver, non-francophone), Kelly McInnes & Rianne Svelnis (Vancouver, non-francophone), Olivia Schaffer (Vancouver Francophone artist).

Project Consultants: Winnie Ho, Antonija Livingstone, Maude Calve-Thibault.

VIVO Media Arts Centre presents Tender Engine, a collaboration between choreographers Mardon + Mitsuhashi, programmer Brynn McNab, a recursive neural network named UXIE and performers Elissa Hanson and Zahra Shahab. Tender Engine plays the line between intimate storytelling and highly performative false expertise, examining our relationship to language, technology, and meaning making.

Performances will be hosted in a series of four events at 8pm on June 25, 26, 27, and 28, at 2625 Kaslo St. (5-minute walk from Renfrew Skytrain Station)

Tickets

$10 available here. ** no one turned away for lack of funds.

Venue Accessibility
VIVO Media Arts Centre is making ongoing efforts to improve the accessibility of 2625 Kaslo St.

Wheelchair
A wheelchair ramp is located at the west side of the main entrance. The ramp has two runs: the first run is 20 feet long, and the second run is 26 feet. The ramp is 60 inches wide. The slope is 1:12. The ramp itself is concrete and has handrails on both sides. There is an outward swinging door (34 inch width) at the top of the ramp leading to a vestibule. A second outward swinging door (33 inch width) opens into the exhibition space. Buzzers and intercoms are located at both doors to notify staff during regular office hours to unlock the doors. Once unlocked, visitors can use automatic operators to open the doors.
Washroom
Door: 33 inch width inward swinging, without automation. Toilet: 11 inch clearance on left side. The washroom has a handrail.

Mardon + Mitsuhashi

Alexa Mardon + Erika Mitsuhashi have been working together since 2015. Our interdisciplinary work has taken forms of durational performance, public installation, set design, printed publications, and projection design. The use of repetitive action, text, and projection investigates themes of affective labour, inherited memory, and the body as a site for choreographies of political and technological structures.
Mardon + Mitsuhashi seeks to create work which performs the line between tenderness and discomfort to develop critiques around the complicity with the structures and living conditions that they are situated in.
As a method to unsettle traditional audience-performer encounters, we ask our public to consider their relationships to their own bodies, histories and futures.

A thought-provoking contemporary dance solo which incorporates live sound, new media, and striking designs to investigate themes of volatility, change, decay, and the unbound. Inspired by the poetry of Anne Carson, Dust uses movement, text and powerful visual effects to reveal the gradual undoing of the performance space, and of the performer herself.

Created by dance artists Francesca Frewer and Erika Mitsuhashi, and performed by Frewer, the work is a collaboration with Adam Asnan (sound), Nellie Gossen (textiles), and Daniel O'Shea (new media).

Post show artist talkback April 28.

Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie St
Free Admission
Reserve your spot now: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/dust-francesca-frewer-erika-mitsuhashi-tickets-59729980981

Announcing Here For Now: vol. 2, a mixed-discipline group art presentation with a focus on contemporary performance. 

Featuring works by:

Dave Biddle + Betty Pomerleau
O, o, o, o.
Drag by the Darlings (Maiden China, PM, Rose Butch, Continental Breakfast)
Nancy Tam
Alex Mah
Ileanna Cheladyn
Zahra Shahab
Alex Beim/Tangible Interaction
Alexa Solveig Mardon
Erika Mitsuhashi
Julie Chapple
Francesca Frewer


Here For Now presents exceptional experimental contemporary art without the pressure that often comes along with gallery and theatre settings. Audience members will be free to roam around the space, see what they like, socialize in a unique space, and stay as long or as briefly as they desire. 

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/here-for-now-vol2-tickets-52295069962
$20 in advance, $25 at the door. No one turned away for lack of funds.


Organized by Francesca Frewer, Antonio Somera, Kayleigh Sandomirsky, Erika Mitsuhashi, Alexa Mardon and Julianne Chapple. 

VENUE ACCESSIBILITY INFO: 
Entrance ramp is located on the right side of the warehouse and is 38in wide with a handrail to the left 41in high. Accessible door has a clearance of 45in. Inside entrance is 81in wide. There is not yet an accessible toilet installed, so for the event we will have an accessible portable on sight. Washrooms are all genders. If you need more information please contact Kayleigh at herefornowperformance@gmail.com

Farouche is excited to present our first full length creation "We Talk Disco One Day".
Created and performed by Farouche (Felicia + Erika + Mahaila) in collaboration with dance artists Lexi Vajda and Avery Smith.

Details:

September 6 & 7, 2018

Show at 8:30pm, Doors at 8pm

Gold Saucer Studio, Dominion Building, second floor
211 - 207 West Hastings Street

Tickets: $15 cash at the door

Space is limited so reservations are encouraged and can be made in advance by emailing farouchecollective@gmail.com

Wheelchair accessible

We Talk Disco One Day is our exploration in creating a clear macro structure for three micro dances.

A
Inheriting Choreography (similar to telephone). We have spent three months passing off choreography and allowing each individual to reshape the movement with their values, interests, and desires. Part of this process is that we have not shared the outcomes with one another. The first time you see them will be the first time we see them too.

B
Structured Disco. Our collective memory of curated and distilled disco moves in an accumulation of pattern, phasing, and complexity.

C
The Same Thing Every Time. Resting our brains but working our bodies.

D
Something Different.

And

E
Epilogue.

Nov 13 – 17 / Nov 20 – 24

8pm

Left of Main / 211 Keefer 

Click Here for Tickets 

Dumb Instrument Dance premieres Public and Private, an ensemble work that in ways both elegant and raw, is a decidedly feminist inquiry. Dancing to the meter of live Taiko, a tribe of female-bodied artists travel within to make selectively public, what was previously private.

Choreography and Performance: Ziyian Kwan in collaboration with Delia Brett, Erika Mitsuhashi, Hayley Gawthrop, Deanna Peters

Taiko Drummer: Eileen Kage

Creative Team: James Proudfoot, Heidi Taylor, Paula Viitanen

An ode to the attempt, the wishing, and the not-quite.

at the rEvolver theatre festival

Tickets: www.tickets.thecultch.com

Venue: The Greenhouse, 1885 Venables - 45 minutes

May 29th 8:00pm

May 30th 8:30pm

May 31st 8:00pm *post-show talk

June 1st 8:30pm

June 2nd 8:30pm

The Saddest Girl at the Party is a dance-theatre duet, conceived as an ode to the attempt and a lament for that which has been given up on. It uses movement crafted into games and absurd scenarios to compose a dynamic performance piece which lies somewhere between playful and heartbreaking, but falling (maybe, almost) just shy of each.

Created, choreographed and performed by Francesca Frewer and Erika Mitsuhashi.

www.erikamitsuhashi.com

www.francescafrewer.wix

https://www.facebook.com/events/249010005664937/

The Cultch

1895 Venables Street, Vancouver

The Cultch Box Office

www.tickets.thecultch.com or 604.251.1363

MIXED PROGRAM
Julianne Chapple + Mahaila Patterson-O’Brien + Marissa Wong + Shay Kuebler/Radical System Art

Scotiabank Dance Centre
677 Davie Street
Vancouver BC V6B 2G6
Saturday November 25, 1pm
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Julianne Chapple's trio Self Portrait is a complex and subtle study of identity and female self-image, drawing on depictions of women in art and the relationship with the spectator.
Mahaila Patterson-O’Brien's duet 8bitself meditates on abstract gesture. The performers move with hypnotic precision through a series of sculptural movements, punctuated by vivid sound and projections by multimedia artist Remy Siu.
A collaboration with musician Jamie Bradbury, Marissa Wong/TWObigsteps collective's Surrendurance investigates social behaviour as a series of complex patterns, and themes of spontaneity versus control, in a fluent and elegant work for five dancers.
Shay Kuebler/Radical System Art's solo Feasting on Famine (excerpt) traces one man’s journey through the extremes of bodybuilding and health fitness, exploring the symmetry between the human body, the corporation, and the excesses of capitalism.

SEASON LAUNCH | NEW WORKS AT NIGHT

September 21, 2017

Doors 7:30pm | Peformance 8:00pm

Annex, 823 Seymour Street, Vancouver

New Works is proud to launch our 20th season by featuring three duets by six talented, emerging female dance artists: Zhara Shahab and Katie Lowen; Erika Mitsuhashi and Francesca Frewer; Jessica Wilke and Laura Avery. This evening of performances is curated by local and nationally renowned choreographer and artist Justine A. Chambers.

Blue Crush by Katie Lowen and Zahra Shahab – An investigation of organic and plastic skins, and the ability to engulf, reveal, and conceal. Blue Crush explores the subversion of desire, the power of imitation, and the body in flux.

The Saddest Girl At The Party, by Francesca Frewer and Erika Mitsuhashi – An ode to the attempt and a lament for that which is given up on. Movement crafted into games and absurd scenarios composes this duet, that lies somewhere between playful and heartbreaking; but falling (maybe, almost) just shy of each.

i think you might be spilling, by Jessica Wilke and Laura Avery – An inquiry into tenderness as resilience, into labours of loving, and into our love affairs with our house plants and our moss gardens. The work attempts to stumble up against varying forms of intimacy-“romantic” and otherwise- that defy easy categorization and that sustain us.

Photo: Cara Tench

New Works at Night is an expansion of our Dance Allsorts program, and offers mixed programs of longer and full-length works at The Annex, through the support from the Pacific Theatre Grants Program. They are opportunities to present pieces that explore deeper themes and dance experiences that are important creative works to support and disseminate.

Farouche Collective brings Mahahila Patterson-O'Brien's work L I L A C to Suddenly Dance Theatre's  Romp Festival this July! 

MIXED INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM - IN THE MELTING POT

When: SATURDAY, JULY 15, 2017

Venue: Metro Studio Theatre (1411 Quadra Street)

Time: 7:30pm (doors open 7:00)

Duration: 75 minutes

Choreography by

DAVID EARLE (Guelph, ONT)

NAMJIN KIM (South Korea)

HOYEON KIM (South Korea)

MAHAILA PATTERSON-O'BRIEN (Vancouver, BC)

followed by

CAKE ON THE STAGE with THE MILLIES

L I L A C

Dancer: Felicia Lau

Sound: Remy Siu, Alex Mah

Original Projection Design: Remy Siu

Performed by: Erika Mitsuhashi 

Text: Jasmine O’Brien

L I L A C is a collaborative, interdisciplinary piece combining movement, text, sound and projection to explore the experience of a single sensory memory over time.

The lilacs

are beginning.

Begin again.

The story you tell

yourself.

Repeat it until it 

is only story

as if told by someone else.

Your scent is only a memory.

Biography:

Choreographer Mahaila Patterson-O’Brien is an emerging choreographer in Vancouver, BC. She studied at SFU School for the Contemporary Arts receiving her BFA (Hons). As a choreographer her work has been presented at multiple venues inside and out of SFU, this includes Project CPR, 12 Minutes Max, Dance Allsorts, Romp Festival 2015 (Victoria, BC), ASCENSION 2013 and 2014, SFU Dance Student Mainstage, Launch! Festival 2014, and Ignite Youth Festival 2013.

Contemporary Technique for Working Class, Training Society of Vancouver

When: July 5 and 7 10-11:30am

Location: Scotiabank Dance Centre 

Class Description:

For working class, I have structured a class that is an amalgamation of different training I have taken over the years. A “best of” different dance and movement techniques that provide dancers with a way of moving with strength and ease. We will systematically wake up our proprioception, beginning with some shaking and joint mobilization. As we warm into moving, we will work through floor, standing and travelling phrases all with a sensitivity to exploring different sequential possibilities of the body by utilizing weight, breath, release, engagement and a happy pelvis moving through space. We will work with guided improvisations with specific movement qualities as a way to observe muscular effort and embodiment.

I am curious about how each of our bodies carries so much movement history and how transference of information through the body affects each of us. I approach technique as a continuously growing library of information and I look forward to sharing my collection through TSV.

http://www.trainingsocietyofvancouver.ca/2017/05/30/erika-mitsuhashi/

April 27 / VIVO / 8:30pm-1:30am
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$15 entry / $25 entry + AA membership + 5 raffle tickets / $40 entry + AA membership + AA tote bag + 5 raffle tickets

First annual fundraiser for our summer programming of a week long event with Crazy Dames and installation by Jacob Gleeson. 

Performances by: Waters / Anybodys / JP Carter+Peggy Lee / Crotch

DJ sets by Minimal Violence / Nancy Dru

Dance Performances by Alexa Mardon+ Erika Mitsuhashi / Emmalena Fredriksson+Arash Khakpour

Raffle Prizes from Big Joy Barber & Salon / Evann Siebens / Priory / Herschel & more

Sound/Music Curated by Elisa Ferrari / John Brennan

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ARTS ASSEMBLY is a not for profit community-centric arts organization that emphasizes artistic collaboration. With a focus on social practices and research, we aim to foster relationships between the community and professional artists. We hope to expand the notion of what art can be and do, and provide a high caliber of diverse and inclusive arts programming.

We seek to fairly compensate artists for their work and research, and acknowledge female leadership in the creative community.

We encourage work that doesn’t necessarily end in a product to be sold, but rather builds relationships between communities, allows for in-depth research, and creates unique experiences.

www.artsassembly.ca

2017 Vancouver International Dance Festival

March 5, 12, 19 2pm @ Woodwards Atrium, Free

producer: Deanna Peters/Mutable Subject
created & played by Katie Lowen & Deanna Peters
in collaboration with players Natalie Gan, Walter Kubanek, Erika Mitsuhashi, Alex Tam & Blake Worthey

ReFuse @ the Vancouver Art Gallery

March 10 8pm to 12am

Semi-precious: the faceting of a gemstone only appears complete and critical

choreography: Justine Chambers

performers: Elissa Hanson, Billy Marchenski, Alison Denham, Kate Franklin, Ileanna Cheladyn, Erika Mitsuhashi

The Vancouver Art Gallery transforms into THE place for art, music and live performance in the city. Since its inception in July 2005, thousands of FUSE–goers have converged at the Gallery for this unique adult event. Live performances in the Gallery spaces, DJs and unexpected surprises make FUSE Vancouver's favourite art party—a place to see some of the best in local performance art, theatre, contemporary dance and music, plus take in the FUSE lounge.  

#fusenight   @vanartgallery 
 

FEATURED SPECIAL GUESTS: Audio: Julian Hou with You’re Me | Hospitality: Elaine (Derya Akay & Anne Low) Dance: Justine Chambers | Performance: Ron Tran | Curated by Jesse McKee, supported by 221A and produced by MediaLab

NOVEMBER 20 | 7:00PM & 8:30PM

Vancouver Opera — 1945 McLean Dr Vancouver, British Columbia V5N 3J7 Canada
GET TICKETS HERE

By activating the festival venues, dance performers act as tour guides that lead audiences through space, making short stops on the way to share their “instantaneous expertise” on the history of objects, their surroundings, as well as their own bodies and personal histories.
Created by Erika Mitsuhashi and Alexa Mardon, TOUR brings attention to the discomfort that comes along with witnessing facts and reality treated with irreverence. How do the institutions we inhabit every day impose their realities and histories upon us? How might we gesture towards other ways of inhabiting them?

Performers: Andrea Cownden + Bynh Ho
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IndieFest presented by re:Naissance opera is a fiercely modern celebration of the performing arts and emerging technology, returning for its 3rd year on Nov. 16 - 27, 2022. For tickets and information visit indiefest.eventbrite.ca