DANCE
curated by Deviani Andrea, Good Women Dance Collective
lighting design by Adam Luijkx
stage managed by Andrea Murphy
Dance Program 1: Dimensions
Nancy Power Theatre @ the Roxy
Friday, June 6 at 5:00 pm
Saturday, June 7 at 12:00 pm (noon)
Sunday, June 8 at 5:00 pm This performance is presented with Audio Description
The Pulp Experience and Dirty Fish present
Ready or Not
choreographed by Sarah Wilson
featuring Braden Welsh, Aidan Collins, Gemma Lissoway, Sarah Wilson, and Abby Gwilt
Ready-or-Not centers around the feeling of growing up and losing the sense of wonder and joy that is so innate in children, only to find that with work, one is still able to access that part of themselves, though it may feel different than it did before. This piece is to remind you that while it may take some work, it is never too late to remember how to play. @thepulpexperience on Instagram.
Yuetong Li presents
Roots: A Tale between East and West
choreographed by Yuetong Li
featuring Yuetong Li and music by Mura Masa, Nöak, and Araatan
In this dance solo, the performer integrates a piece of self-monologue to discuss their loss of sense for belonging and home. The performer would discuss their experience spending childhood in Asia but some teenage era and early adulthood in Canada, learning and adapting to two different perspectives of language, dance, culture and environment. In this solo the performer utilizes street dance movements (hiphop freestyle, popping, breaking, etc) with street dance style influenced music and their own life experience to find a sense of belonging and connect with their own culture being away from their home country.
Desirée Keresztes James presents
Disrupting Synth Clarity
choreographed by Desirée Keresztes James
featuring Desirée Keresztes James
Disrupting Synth Clarity investigates the blurred boundaries between reality and fantasy. Exploring a playful irony that amplifies the uncanny and invokes the idea of the multiplicity of selves.
Using disorientation as a threshold between clarity and confusion, the body becomes masked, at times concealed or merged with objects, blurring the distinction between subject and environment. This fragmentation of reality amplifies the ambiguity of identity and presence, heightening the experience of being in-between, caught in spaces where identities dissolve and the surreal takes over. This piece offers a glimpse into a world where the boundaries of self, time, and space are fluid and uncertain.
Dog Bite Theatre Collective presents
what falls out of our brains and into the pockets of strangers
featuring Tori Kibblewhite, and Gabi Stachniak
what falls out of our brains and into the pockets of strangers is a collage of memory, the mundane, and trying to remember where you left your phone charger through movement. Weeding through past and present thoughts, conversations, and moments, Tori and Gabi explore the white noise of what a Wednesday feels like.
Dance Program 2: Layers
Nancy Power Theatre @ the Roxy
Friday, June 13 at 6:00 pm
Saturday, June 14 at 12:00 pm (noon) This performance is presented with Audio Description
Sunday, June 15 at 2:00 pm
Jody Faulkner presents
Returning
feaTURING Janita Frantsi, Jen Dunford, Katherine Mackenzie, Nicole Mackenzie, Elena Fursova, Elizabeth Brigden, Nerissa Faulkner
choreographed by Jody Faulkner
Returning is the opening section of a larger, evolving work exploring the human experience of loss, grief, and the invisible threads of love that bind us. This piece dwells in the moments of watching suffering, feeling helpless, and enduring the slow unraveling that comes with death—both emotional and physical. Through tender, aching movement, Returning invites us into the raw space of mourning, holding on, and the quiet ache of absence. It is the beginning of a journey toward surrender, remembrance, and the eternal return to source.
Lisa Kotelniski presents
Fresh Tracks
choreographed by Lisa Kotelniski
featuring Lisa Kotelniski, and Shannon Lin
Fresh Tracks explores the journey of self-discovery, using movement to reflect the process of breaking free from expectations. This duet captures the struggle and triumph of forging one’s own path while embodying moments of doubt, resilience, and the ultimate empowerment that comes from embracing an authentic voice. Fresh Tracks is a celebration of individuality and the courage it takes to carve out space in an ever-changing world.
Rena Adell Eyamie presents
think only of the sacrifice
choreographed by Rena Adell Eyamie
think only of the sacrifice is a seance of my own design. I dance and sew to call forth and reanimate the ghosts of my female ancestors. In creation and destruction, I reckon with the friction between gendered expectations and my queerness. I am held by thin skin and steel blades, by fur and memory.
KTCO The Company presents
Under Silk Skin
choreographed by Katie Corrao
featuring Danielle Gut, Isa Segal, and Katie Corrao
Under Silk Skin (2025) opens a world where inner demons rise to the surface. Here, the illusion softens: the porcelain shell cracks, and something more primal breathes beneath. We meet ourselves in the wild spaces between image and instinct. Not a breaking but a remembering.
