2022 Vancouver International Dance Festival

Vancouver International Dance Festival Jan 21 - March 26

Program

Info & Box Office: VIDF.CA 604.662.4966

Wabi-Sabi by Kokoro Dance. Photo by Chris Randle

VIDF 2022

Vancouver’s

MARION LANDERS

For Coloured Girls: Out of the Womb Jan 21 @ 7pm & Jan 22 @ 4pm Free/By donation Livestreaming from KW Studios

Vancouver’s

COMPANY 605/ GERMAN JAUREGUI

Albatross March 4 @ 7pm & March 5 @ 4pm Free/By Donation Livestreaming from KW Studios

Montréal’s

Senescence by Olivia Shaffer. Photo by jucoVisualArts (Juan Contreras)

DAINA ASHBEE

J’ai pleuré avec les chiens (Time, Creation, Destruction) - [Canadian Premiere] March 9-12 @ 8pm $20-30 Scotiabank Dance Centre

Montréal’s

RHODNIE DÉSIR (RD CRÉATIONS)

BOW’T TRAIL RÉTROSPEK March 23-26 @ 7:30pm $26-49 Historic Theatre, The Cultch

Vancouver’s

DANCE//NOVELLA

When the Walls Come Down Feb 4 @ 7pm & Feb 5 @ 4pm Free/By donation Livestreaming from KW Studios

Vancouver’s

KOKORO DANCE

Wabi-Sabi March 4-5 @ 8pm $35-50 Vancouver Playhouse

Montréal’s

BENOÎT LACHAMBRE

All in All [World Premiere] March 18 - March 20 @ 3pm-7:30pm

By Donation/Free KW Studios, Woodwards Atrium

Vancouver’s

OLIVIA SHAFFER

Senescence March 24 - March 26 @ 6:30pm By donation/Free KW Atrium Studio

Nanaimo’s

HOLLY BRIGHT & CELESTINE ALECK

The Sun and the Moon February 24-26 @ 8pm $20-30 Orpheum Annex

Montréal’s

MANUEL ROQUE

SIERRANEVADA [World Premiere] March 9-12 @ 8pm

By Donation/Free KW Production Studio

Vancouver’s

COMPANY 605

Brimming (Hybrid Show) March 18-19 @ 8pm $20-30 In-person at Orpheum Annex Free/by donation Livestream

Toronto’s

TIGER PRINCESS DANCE PROJECTS

Weave…part one & In Search of Holy Chop Suey March 24-26 @ 8pm By donation/Free KW Production Studio

Vancouver International Dance Festival

Welcome to the 22nd edition of the Vancouver International Dance Festival.

We begin by acknowledging that the 2022 VIDF takes place on the unceded ancestral territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (TsleilWaututh) Nations and we thank them for sharing their land with us.

The 2022 VIDF offers 29 in-person performances, 6 livestreamed performances, and 1 hybrid in-person/ livestreamed performance.

All 13 performances that take place in KW Studios/ Woodward’s Atrium and the 8 livestreamed performances are free/by donation. Please read the following pages to learn about the exciting shows that

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make up this year’s festival.

While the Provincial Health Office is now allowing full capacity at our venues, we are keeping our attendance at 50% to better ensure social spacing in our seated shows.

Vaccination cards proving full vaccinations against COVID-19 are required as is wearing masks except for those who have difficulty breathing through masks or when you are consuming beverages or food. Please maintain social distancing wherever possible at events where there is no seating. Please be kind and respectful to your fellow dance lovers.

Dance is an ephemeral art form that has a profound and lasting impact. We produce the VIDF as a labour of love for the art of contemporary dance. We started this festival 22 years ago without any funding support, but now

receive grants from the City of Vancouver, Province of BC, British Columbia Arts Council, Department of Canadian Heritage, and the Canada Council for the Arts.

While we are grateful for this support, we are also thankful for the generous support from individual donors who enable us to produce this festival.

Please join these individual angels in supporting the VIDF by buying a ticket to a show and bringing a friend or additionally donating when attending our free in-person and livestreamed shows. We hope to see your beautiful faces and feel your warm hearts at the 2022 VIDF. Yours in dance,

Barbara Bourget and Jay Hirabayashi

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BOW’T TRAIL RÉTROSPEK by Rhodnie Désir. Photo by Kevin Calixte

TABLE OF CONTENTS

VIDF 2022 Festival Program

01. Producers’ Note 03. Ticket & Venue Info 04. Marion Landers 05. Dance//Novella 06. Holly Bright & Celestine Aleck 08. Company 605/German Jauregui 10. Kokoro Dance 12. Manuel Roque 14. Daina Ashbee 16. Benoît Lachambre 18. Company 605 20. Rhodnie Désir (RD Creations) 22. Olivia Shaffer 24. tiger princess dance projects 26. Support the VIDF 28. Partners/ Staff Listing

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TICKET & VENUE INFO TICKET PRICES Vancouver Playhouse: Reserved seating ticket prices are $50 for Adults, $40 for Seniors/ Students/ Arts Workers, and $35 for groups of 10 or more.

BOX OFFICE To reserve your ticket, go to vidf.ca. If you need assistance call our box office at 604·662·4966 or email boxoffice@vidf.ca.

The box office is available online 24/7: online ticket sales are available until 4PM on the day of the show. Administrative staff are available to take your calls during office hours 12PM – 5PM, Monday to Saturday.

Door Sales start at 7PM at the Vancouver Playhouse, Orpheum Annex, and Scotiabank Dance Centre and 5:30PM at The Cultch. Box Office at KW Studios/Woodward’s Atrium opens 30 minutes prior to all performances.

Orpheum Annex: $30 for Adults, $25 for Seniors/Students/ Arts Workers, and $20 for groups of 10 or more.

Historic Theatre, The Cultch: $49 for Section A+, $42 for Section A, $35 for Section B, $26 for Section C

KW Studios/Woodward’s Atrium and all livestreamed performances are free/by donation.

LOCATIONS Vancouver Playhouse: 600 Hamilton St @ Dunsmuir St, Vancouver Orpheum Annex: 823 Seymour St @ Robson St, Vancouver Scotiabank Dance Centre: 677 Davie St @ Granville St, Vancouver

Refunds Policy: Refunds will be made in full in case of a cancelled performance. No other refunds will be made. There is no refund for tickets or VIDF Memberships after the purchase has been processed. Missed performances will not be refunded.

Scotiabank Dance Centre: $30 for Adults, $25 for Seniors/ Students/ Arts Workers, and $20 for groups of 10 or more.

Historic Theatre, The Cultch: 1895 Venables St @ Victoria Drive, Vancouver KW Studios/Woodward’s Atrium: 111 West Hastings St @ Abbott St, Vancouver

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VIDF 2022 Festival Program

For Coloured Girls: Out of the Womb Jan 21 @ 7pm & Jan 22 @ 4pm Free/By donation Livestreaming from KW Studios Vancouver’s

MARION LANDERS

Photo of Reuben, Tabitha and Marion

For Coloured Girls: Out of the Womb is inspired by Ntozake Shange’s famous choreopoem. It examines the cycle of life from an intergenerational perspective in a family with roots in the ‘Coloured’ Community of Cape Town, South Africa.

A consideration of birth and a woman’s choice to assert herself in hierarchies of race, class and prejudice, are at the root of this contemporary dance theatre story that dives deep into one family’s struggle to negotiate mixed heritage and to survive the damaging legacy of apartheid.

Credits:

Ballet, Contemporary and African dance, music and theatre are combined to create moments from the performer’s past and implicate their continuity in the present.

Creator/Writer/Performer: Marion Landers Musical Direction/Percussion: Ezeadi Onukwulu Dance Mentor: Barbara Bourget Writer Mentor: Chantal Gibson

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Inspired by Caroline’s life story, the 45-minute performance sheds light on stereotypes and difficulties that Deaf Canadians may face. With stunning lighting design by James Proudfoot, the stage is transformed to reveal glimpses of memories that have impacted Caroline’s life.

The performance will also include an animation created by a team of five talented artists from the Vancouver Film School. Brandon Lee Alley and Racheal Prince, both former artists with Ballet BC, are the creators and perform alongside Caroline Hébert.

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DANCE//NOVELLA

Credits:

Choreography: Racheal Prince, Brandon Lee Alley Lighting Design: James Proudfoot Sound Designer: Brandon Lee Alley Performers: Caroline Hébert, Brandon Lee Alley, Racheal Prince Voice Actor/ASL Interpreter: Anna-Belle Hébert

Dance//Novella photo by iiiiportraits

When the Walls Come Down Feb 4 @ 7pm & Feb 5 @ 4pm Free/By donation Livestreaming from KW Studios

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VIDF 2022 Festival Program

The Sun and the Moon February 24-26 @ 8pm $20-30 Orpheum Annex Nanaimo’s

HOLLY BRIGHT & CELESTINE ALECK

Credits:

Created by Holly Bright and collaborators/performers, Genevieve Johnson and Nicola Jackson Original score composed by Wayne Lavallee Song and whispered story by Celestine Aleck Costume evolution and construction by Mary Downes, Crystal Hanson Lighting Design by John Carter Video Design by Chimerik 似不像 Drawings by Cole Melvin Good Produced with the support of the BC Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, Hamber Foundation.

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Photo of Genevieve Johnson by Cara McKenna

This dance is based on a creation story by Snuneymuxw author, Celestine Aleck. It tells the story of how the relationship between the Sun and the Moon came to be. It is a story about their love and the arc it paints in the sky.

The sunrise, sunset, eclipse – the meetings of these two beings – remind us of the mystery and beauty of love and hope for an evolving world.

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Photos of Albatross by David Cooper

Albatross March 4 @ 7pm & March 5 @ 4pm Free/By Donation Livestreaming from KW Studios

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Vancouver’s

COMPANY 605 /GERMAN JAUREGUI Albatross is a driving duet created through an international collaboration between Company 605 and Brussels-based artist German Jauregui, a longtime collaborator of Wim Vandekeybus / Ultima Vez. “This physically grueling piece attempts to pull apart a single moment to dissect and experience its contents in expanded time. Like two parts of one’s self, in continuous motion

Credits:

and perpetual contact, two bodies inhabit a single person’s trajectory through a test of endurance. Faced with both a physical and psychological burden, the heavy weight that they must carry, the performers are forced to surrender to the circumstances of their interdependence. They simultaneously become each other’s obstruction and support to keep moving forward.”

Creation and Direction: German Jauregui Creative Collaborators and Performers: Josh Martin and Lisa Gelley Other contributors within creation process: Hilary Maxwell, Hayden Fong and Jessica Wilkie Lighting Design: James Proudfoot Sound Design: Stefan Smulovitz Camera Operators: Tory Ip, Nick Short, and Gabriel Raminhos Gimbal Operator: Daniel Loan Video Switcher: Yasuhiro Okada

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VIDF 2022 Festival Program

Wabi-Sabi March 4-5 @ 8pm $35-50 Vancouver Playhouse Vancouver’s

KOKORO DANCE Kokoro Dance contemplates transience and imperfection in Wabi-Sabi, a duet choreographed and performed by Kokoro Dance directors, Barbara Bourget, and Jay Hirabayashi to live music performed by an 8-piece ensemble directed by composer Joseph Hirabayashi.

Kokoro Dance’s butoh expression gives recurring attention to the seven aesthetic principles of Zen philosophy: kanso — simplicity; fukinsei — asymmetry or irregularity; shibumi — beauty in the understated; shizen — naturalness without pretense;

Duration: 50 Minutes

yugen — subtle grace; datsuzoku — freeness; and seijaku — tranquility. These terms are encompassed in a world view contained in the words wabi and sabi — the acceptance of transience and imperfection.

Jay Hirabayashi, were conceived independently from the choreography. Each collaborator intuitively understands Kokoro Dance’s aesthetic choices through decades of working together on Kokoro’s creative projects. Adding to the impact The choreography in these of these Vancouver Playhouse Wabi-Sabi performances consists performances is the addition of of a structured score within which musicians Joseph Hirabayashi Barbara and Jay have the freedom (guitar, keyboards), Meredith to improvise. Each performance Bates and Joshua Zubot (violins), will be unique. The music, by Martin Reisle (cello), Elliot Joseph Hirabayashi, lighting by Langford and Jay Hirabayashi Hina Nishioka and Gerald King, (guitar), Justin Devries (synth costumes by Tsuneko Kokubo, and drums), and Jeff Gammon and projected photography by (upright and electric bass).

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Credits:

Wabi-Sabi by Kokoro Dance. Photos by Chris Randle

Performed and choreographed by Barbara Bourget and Jay Hirabayashi Lighting: Hina Nishioka and Gerald King Costumes: Tsuneko Kokubo Projected photography: Jay Hirabayashi Music: Joseph Hirabayashi Violin: Meredith Bates and Joshua Zubot Cello: Martin Reisle Guitar: Elliot Langford, Joseph Hirabayashi, and Jay Hirabayashi Synth, Drums: Justin Devries Upright Bass, Electric Bass: Jeff Gammon Keyboards: Joseph Hirabayashi Sound Engineer: Marc L’Esperance

Manuel Roque photo by Marilène Bastien

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Montréal’s

Navigating between control and letting go, Sierranevada is simply an exercise, a laboratory practice, an abstraction, a cloud parade inviting you to envision its form, meaning, or the energy exuding from it.

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MANUEL ROQUE This practice is an act of resistance, echoing what Naomi Klein calls “the colonization of our imaginations by neoliberalism”, to deconstruct or rebuild a world a little more in tune with our intimate aspirations.

SIERRANEVADA [World Premiere] March 9-12 @ 8pm

By Donation/Free KW Production Studio

Credits:

Creation and performance: Manuel Roque Co-creation: Marilène Bastien, Sophie Corriveau, Lucie Vigneault Soundtrack: Manuel Roque Technical director / production: Judith Allen Production: Cie Manuel Roque Co-production: Festival TransAmériques, Les Brigittines, La Rotonde, L’Agora de la danse, Atelier de Paris CDCN With support from: La Briquetterie, La Rotonde, Circuit-Est Centre Chorégraphique, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, Conseil des Arts du Canada, Conseil des Arts de Montréal

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Montréal’s

DAINA ASHBEE Daina Ashbee’s latest work unfolds like a ritual celebration dedicated to the body. In a minimalist landscape driven by cycles of change, five dancers fluctuate between possibilities: from animal to human, mundane to spiritual, from pain and sorrow to ecstasy. Down on all fours, they experience the elation of a new harmony and equilibrium but

Advisories: Nudity Duration: ~75 Minutes

soon are flipped upside down, eluding gravity, and portraying a resurgence of the power to act in a community. Born in Nanaimo, BC and of Métis and Dutch heritage, Ashbee has earned international plaudits for her radical and unflinching work which examines the body through a powerful feminist lens.

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Credits:

Choreographer: Daina Ashbee Rehearsal Director: Gabriel Nieto (Nomad of the South) Performers: Angélica Morga, Irene Martínez, Ralph Escamillan, Elise Vanderborght and Benjamin Kamino Mentor: Benoît Lachambre Lighting Design: Vito Walter Musical compilation: Sean MacPherson, Daina Ashbee, Gabriel Nieto

Photos by Nicholas VanAchter

J’ai pleuré avec les chiens (Time, Creation, Destruction) [Canadian Premiere] March 9-12 @ 8pm $20-30 Scotiabank Dance Centre

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A deep reflection on multiple artistic, socio-cultural and political realities, All in All is a journey that brings together Lebanese, Mexican and Canadian artists in an ambitious and vibrant work. All in All examines the resonance of bodies through three segments presented simultaneously: “The Ogre, the Phoenix and the Faithful Friend”,

“Boreal Castles” and “Perro de Fuego y Rata de Agua”. All in All is conceived in terms of spaces that encourage the mobility of the spectator, thus encouraging a plurality of views. The work is an invitation to new forms of listening and attention.

Montréal’s

BENOÎT LACHAMBRE WITH MONTRÉAL DANSE AND PAR B.L.EUX

Credits:

All in All conceptualisation and scenography: Benoît Lachambre Choreographic and performative development: Elinor Fueter, Rachel Harris, Benoit Lachambre, Charlie Prince, Ricardo Rubio Dramaturg : Kathy Casey Perro de Fuego y Rata de Agua (Fire Dog and Water Rat): Performance/space activators : Benoit Lachambre, Ricardo Rubio Sound installation : Miguel Mesa Beaded accessories creation : Venado Mestizo

Boreal Castles: Performers : Elinor Fueter, Rachel Harris The Ogre, the Phoenix and the Faithful Friend: Performer : Charlie Prince Multimedia installation: Tarek Chemaly Production: Montréal Danse Coproduction: Montréal Danse and Parbleux

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Duration: 4.5 Hours

All in All photo by Producciones EL DIA D

Ogre Photo by Montréal Danse

All in All [World Premiere] March 18 - March 20 @ 3pm-7:30pm

By Donation/Free KW Studios, Woodwards Atrium

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Vancouver’s

COMPANY 605 Brimming (Hybrid Show) March 18-19 @ 8pm $20-30 In-person at Orpheum Annex Free/by donation Livestream

Duration: 50 Minutes

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Credits:

This is a hybrid presentation utilizing live-feed cameras in tandem with a live in-situ performance.

In-person audiences will attend an intimate and immersive experience, roaming freely to explore different perspectives and proximity to the work as it unfolds. Live camera capture of the performance is projected into the space as additional vantage points, which will be simultaneously broadcast for online streaming viewers.

Creation and Performance: Josh Martin Creative Collaborators: Justine A. Chambers, Lisa Mariko Gelley & Maiko Yamamoto Music: Ian William Craig & Matthew Tomkinson Sound Design: Matthew Tomkinson Lighting Design: James Proudfoot Scenic Design: Josh Martin Set Construction Coordination and Build: Paula Viitanen Aldazosa & Juan Carlos Aldazosa Bazúa Video Direction / Stage Management: Jessica Han Gimbal Operator: Daniel Loan Video Switcher: Yasuhiro Okada Company 605 Managing Producer: Francesca Piscopo (Eponymous)

Brimming by Company 605 photos by David Cooper

Created and performed by Artistic Co-Director Josh Martin, Brimming is a solo investigating the body as a container: a rigid frame holding in and concealing its stored inner contents. The piece imagines the body as a hollow interior space continuously shaped and reshaped, filled and emptied, and inhabited through different states. A performer trapped inside his own form, the dance is a meeting of both the seen and unseen – the invisible contents that slosh up against the sides, pushing against the outer surface from beneath, and occasionally leaking under its pressure. Brimming explores this shape we are in, how it holds us, and what may eventually spill out when the walls begin to bend.

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BOW’T TRAIL RÉTROSPEK March 23-26 @ 7:30pm $26-49 Historic Theatre, The Cultch Montréal’s

RHODNIE DÉSIR (RD CRÉATIONS) CO-PRESENTED WITH THE CULTCH

BOW’T TRAIL Retrospek, the ambassador piece of the BOW’T series, is a conversation between the present and the past, combined to the channelling body of Rhodnie Désir in which more than 130 testimonies collected on 7 lands of the Americas still reside.

Since 2020, this masterpiece and the pioneering choreographicdocumentary approach raises to the highest honours : le Grand Prix and Envol award (Prix de la Danse de Montréal 2020), a nomination to “25 to watch” Dance Magazine of

New York and a career nomination “Award of Merit for achievement in the performing arts” of APAP NY (2021).

On stage and accompanied by two maestro musicians, Désir transcends polyrhythmic and majestic textures and sonorities while her body is mysteriously enveloped by video projections and plural memories connecting the audience to the universe of her travels.

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BOW’T TRAIL RÉTROSPEK by Rhodnie Désir. Photos by Kevin Calixte

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Credits:

Co-production: RD Créations, National Arts Center of Ottawa Creation partners: Canada Arts Council, Conseil des arts et des Lettres du Québec, Conseil des Arts de Montréal, Espace Libre, Centre de création O’Vertigo Choreographer, dancer, artistic direction and vocal compositions: Rhodnie Désir Musicians: Engone Endong + Jahsun Video designer: Manuel Chantre Lighting designer: Juliette Dumaine Lighting designer (accessories): Jonathan Barro Costume designer: Mélanie Fererro Beatmaker and music composer: Engone Endong Artistic Senior Consultant: Philip Szporer Creative Support: Isabelle Poirier + James Viveiros Technical director and sound designer: Francis Beaulieu Lighting and video technician: Maude Picard Cutter (costume): Phoebé Folco Millette Dressmaker: Natalie Talbot Documentary video images from BOW’T TRAIL Represented by: Cusson Management Inc. / Valérie Cusson

Senescence by Olivia Shaffer. Photo by jucoVisualArts (Juan Contreras)

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Vancouver’s

OLIVIA SHAFFER

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Senescence March 24 - March 26 @ 6:30pm By donation/Free KW Atrium Studio

Senescence asks the question: what is a good life if one loses the ability to determine that life for themself? Emerging from the experience of caregiving for my father, who had dementia and Parkinson’s disease, the work reflects the metamorphosis that occurs as essential features of one’s selfhood are stripped away; it contemplates the liminality that envelops the end of life.

Having developed this piece over a number of years, each time I return to the work a

new attitude reveals itself as my memories of the subject matter condense and expand.

A duet between Olivia Shaffer and Alex Mah, in which dance, spoken word, live and electronic music are woven together to contemplate liminal spaces that surround the final stages of life.

Senescence (/sɪˈnɛsəns/): the gradual process of deterioration that occurs in the aging mind and body.

Credits:

Concept + choreography: Olivia Shaffer Music composition: Alex Mah Performance: Olivia Shaffer + Alex Mah Performance Consultation: Raïna von Waldenburg Outside Eye: Diego Romero Lighting Design: Jessica Han Costumes: Sasha Schaepe + performers Text: Justin Veuthey, Olivia Shaffer

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Weave…part one & In Search of Holy Chop Suey March 24-26 @ 8pm By donation/Free KW Production Studio Toronto’s

TIGER PRINCESS DANCE PROJECTS Weave…part one “Weave…part one” uses a contemporary dance framework to braid my mother’s life (second Sino-Japanese War); adopted into a Peranakan family as a baby, passed on to her Lau Ye at age 7 for convenience then discarded at age 19 on

the death of the patriarch; with some of the situations I lived through and choices I made that crystalized who I became. Central to the solo is a questioning of the role/ value of a woman in Asia – if all this has really changed with the passing of time.

Credits:

Choreographer/Performer: Yvonne Ng Music: Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto Lighting Designer: Gabriel Cropley, after Simon Rossiter Creative Facilitator: Susan Cash and Katherine Duncanson

Ent’acte, featuring singer, Kristin Fung

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In Search of the Holy Chop Suey Where or in what time space does identity reside? Ng asks “How does someone else’s movement quality impact my own dancing self?” as she undertakes a pointed investigation for her solo, In Search of the Holy Chop Suey.

In it, she ponders a life of creation and imitation in movement and mines influences from sources

as varied as her mother, modern dance and kung fu legends, ordinary people, wild animals and more. Says Ng, “When I imitate, I also uncover something unique in myself. Each time I fail to become more like my mother (or my favourite kung fu hero Bruce Lee), I become more me.”

Credits:

Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann

Photo by David Huo

Concept and creation by Yvonne Ng* in collaboration with Set Designer: Silvie Varone Costumes: Silvie Varone and Yvonne Ng Music: DakhaBrakha, Ólafur Arnalds, Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto, field recordings.

Lighting Designer: Gabriel Cropley, after Arun Srinivasan Creative Facilitators: Marie-Josée Chartier and Dan Wild Rehearsal Director: Johanna Bergfeldt

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HOW TO HELP You can support the festival’s programming and the continued growth of contemporary dance through donations to the Vancouver International Dance Festival. The VIDF is a non-profit, artist-run, registered charitable society (CRA# 892858614RR0001) that needs your support. Your donation will help to ensure ongoing opportunities for local dancers, and

touring opportunities for international artists to bring their works to the stage in Vancouver.

You can also support the VIDF by “liking” our videos on YouTube, subscribing to our YouTube channel and following us on Facebook, Learn more about different Instagram and/or Twitter. ways to support the VIDF at “Checking in” to the VIDF on vidf.ca/donate. Unrestricted Facebook and rating your donations to the society experience also supports can be made directly our visibility and promote through this link, over the our activities. phone or by mail to the VIDF office. Charitable tax receipts will be issued for contributions over $3.

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VIDF ENDOWMENT FUND Supervised by the Vancouver Foundation, the VIDF Endowment Fund is building a long-term legacy for the festival. The VIDF is in its 22nd year; if you would like to see the festival continue advancing the art of contemporary dance for years to come, please donate at vidf.ca/endowmentfund.

Charitable tax receipts will be issued for contributions over $3 made online.

You can also donate to this fund by writing a cheque payable to the Vancouver Foundation, indicating VIDF in the memo line, and mailing to:

LARISA FAYAD MEMORIAL FUND In loving memory of Larisa Fayad (1976-2007), her friends and family have established the Larisa Fayad Memorial Fund to carry on Larisa’s work and aspirations in the field of lighting design. From this fund, biennial bursaries of $5,000 are awarded to enable the careers of emerging lighting designers.

The 2022 VIDF Larisa Fayad Memorial Lighting Designer Award winner is Hina Nishioka.

Please help keep Larisa’s memory alive by donating to this fund at https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/24222.

Photo of Larisa Fayad by Jay Hirabayashi

Vancouver Foundation RE: Vancouver International Dance Festival Suite 200, 475 West Georgia St. Vancouver, BC V6B 4M9

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WE’RE GRATEFUL FOR ALL OUR SUPPORTERS, WHO TOGETHER, MAKE THE VIDF POSSIBLE VIDF SUSTAINING BENEFACTORS Linda Farris Barbara Bourget Jay Hirabayashi Judith Garay Gary Maier and Leslie Poole Peter Dickenson Aaron Smith

COMMUNITY PARTNERS Holiday Inn Hotel and Suites – Vancouver Downtown Rosedale on Robson Kokoro Dance Theatre Society KW Studios East Van Graphics The Dance Centre The Cultch

The Vancouver International Dance Festival is a member of the CanDance Network of Dance Presenters.

MEDIA PARTNER

VIDF STAFF

Stir Vancouver

Co-producers: Jay Hirabayashi and Barbara Bourget Festival Manager: Khaliun Altan Production Manager: Terry Podealuk KW Studios Technical Director: Gabriel Raminhos Digital Marketing Coordinator: Khaliun Altan Web & Graphic Designer: Aaron Smith Photographer/Videographer: Chris Randle Bookkeeper/Admin Assistant: Sugar Otgo VIDF Digital Marketing Assistant: Misheel Altanbadralt

FOUNDATIONS & FUNDING AGENCIES British Columbia Arts Council Canada Council for the Arts City of Vancouver – Cultural Services Government of Canada Department of Canadian Heritage Province of British Columbia

VIDF BOARD OF DIRECTORS President: Henry Wong Vice President: Leslie Stark Secretary/Treasurer: Tuan Luu Member at Large: Judith Garay, Tessa Perkins Deneault, and Kazuho Yamamoto

FRIENDS OF THE VIDF Mary Louise Albert Stuart Alcock Eva Allan Davi Rodrigues de Araujo Gerardo Avila Mary Barcellos Mary Battell Emily Bausback MaryEllen Belfiore Richard Biederman Dave Carloni Sean Carmon Marilyn Chapman Candus Churchill Danielle Clifford Jane Connell Juan Contreras C Croucher Reid Cuming Stephanie Daniels Elizabeth Devereaux

Peter Eastwood Kevin Ettinger Noah Ferguson Raíces Alas y Flamenco Heidi French Paul Gibbons Adrianne Haley Kathy Hamilton Jessica Han Ame Henderson Elena Himbeault Anna Hittrich Tannis Hugill Josephine Jakubowski Marion Jamieson Margo Kane Clara Keefer Stephanie Kellington Taryn Klassen Darren Kopetsky David Lach H William Lensink

Ingrid Leong Nancy J Lilley Candice Lombard Ester Lorenzo Angela Macdonald Eamonn Mackenzie Linda Maslechko Andrew McKinley Elise Mentzos Rob Minifie M Morrissey Tanya Murree Haruko Okano Douglas Oldenburg Marion Oldenburg Jean Orr Erica Pinsky Alaric Posey Nadine Quedenbaum Mandy Rabinovitch Sabine Rouques Adriana Santamaria

Bernad Schulz Nicole Seguin Annette Shaw Tamara Shulman Michael Sider Albert Smith Peter Smith Jodi Sprackman Kerri Squires Leslie Stark John Swanson Marnie Tamaki Ian Thomas Alvin Tolentino Lisa Tracz Jade de Trey Elliott Vion Wen Wei Wang Mark Ward Janet White Cindy Williams Henry Wong

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