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KW Atrium Studio

KW Recording Studio

Located in the Woodward’s Heritage Building in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver on the unceded traditional and ancestral homelands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, KW studios are multipurpose production/ performance spaces available for rent to the public with subsidies available to support low-income, non-profit, Indigenous and DTES artists. The spaces consist of a 1,051 sq. ft. dance studio on the main floor, and a 3,802 sq. ft. production studio with attached recording studio, dressing room and servery in the basement. Both spaces feature Harlequin vinyl sprung dance floors, lights and lighting grid, recording / live sound gear, projector and screen, green screen and full surrounding drapery.

CONTACT INFO:

Address: 236-111 Hastings St W Vancouver BC V6B 1H4

Phone Number: 604-914-2180

E-mail: booking@kwstudios.ca PRODUCERS’ NOTE

WELCOME to the 21st edition of the Vancouver International Dance Festival.

We begin by acknowledging that the 2021 VIDF takes place on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/ Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, all 2021 VIDF performances will be livestreamed from the KW Production Studio in the months of March, April, May and June, so that we can ensure the safest conditions for presenting the outstanding work of Ne. Sans Opera & Dance, Company 605, Vidya Kotamraju, Yvonne Ng / tiger princess dance projects, CAMP, and Lamondance.

Last September and October, we took on the challenge of how to produce the festival while adhering to the Provincial Health Office’s COVID-19 mitigation policies. We used Kokoro Dance’s 4-camera livestreaming system to broadcast live performances of Kokoro Dance, FakeKnot, and Farouche whose 2020 VIDF shows had to be cancelled when Vancouver’s performance venues were shut down last March.

We were surprised and delighted to discover that livestreaming captured the immediacy and excitement of live performance while offering visual perspectives that are impossible to duplicate in a live theatre setting. Livestream performances are edited in the moment with views that put audiences within inches of the dancers or hovering overhead, below, behind, or adjacent to them. No longer are you stuck to a single seat far from the stage. Camera operators become sometimes visible, sometimes invisible, parts of the choreography. Audience members, from the comfort of their own homes, can feel like they are on stage with the dancers.

Because of the economic downturn from the COVID-19 mitigation policies, we have decided to make all 2021 livestreaming performances free. We invite you to help us continue to bring performances into your living rooms by donating if you can. Welcome to the 2021 VIDF. Enjoy!

Barbara Bourget and Jay Hirabayashi