My intensive contemporary dance training took place in Québec, Vancouver and The Netherlands. I’ve done additional workshops, intensives, and mentoring in historical dance, social dance forms and world dance styles, as well as physical training in clown, bouffon, mask, physical theatre, and voice work. As a performer, I am most interested in interdisciplinary work that blurs that lines between traditional art forms; dance-theatre and theatre-dance, vocal-body work, and public participatory art making. I think that community dance performances as well as social dancing are as valuable as dance performed by professional dancers for audiences. I have done a bit of both, and I think as individuals and as a society we can benefit the most when we appreciate and support trained artists and their achievements, and at the same time, consider ourselves to be artists and dance with our children, friends, in community, and in public non-professional shows or festivals.
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Dance Performance Highlights
International Theatre School Festival, (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Performance Symposium (Bristol, UK)
HKA Festival (Arnhem, The Netherlands)
Seattle Festival of Alternative Dance and Improvisation (Seattle, WA)
Vancouver Fringe Festival, Radix Theatre, Dancing on the Edge Festival, Vancouver Early Music Festival, 12 Minutes Max, Spontaneous Combustions and Link Community Dance Series (Vancouver, BC)
Greater Vancouver Historical Performance Society, company member and performer of accurate Renaissance and Baroque dance and songs in period garments, 1997-2019.
True North Performance Society, company member and performer of interdisciplinary work involving dance, theatre and voice in site-specific works and pieces made for theatre and festivals, 1992-2006.
Jie Delights! founding member and performer in an interactive trio of dancing sprites that performed for community art festivals and special events, 1999-2008.
Foolish Operations Ensemble, performer with my children in a dance group exploring a practice called "Dancing the Parenting" through structured improvisation and ensemble thinking, 2012-2016. (See article: Why Do Art With Our Kids?)
Music for My mind, body, and soul
Renaissance Recorder practice group (Nanaimo, BC) 2023-2026
Singing Concerts in Nanaimo: Hullabaloo Choir with Nico Rhodes, Medieval to Modern Irish and Scottish Christmas concerts with Anna Atkinson