Upcoming Performances
LISTEN, LISTEN FESTIVAL
VANCOUVER IMPROVISED ARTS SOCIETY
OCT 6—7, 2023 // 8PM—10PM
LEFT OF MAIN
A two-day multidisciplinary festival celebrating improvised arts sparked from joyful spontaneous play. Presented by Vancouver Improvised Arts Society [MST Territories] in partnership with plastic orchid factory, the festival's a collaboration between artists of different backgrounds, influences and styles.
conceived by meredith bates
programmed by meredith bates, Elisa Thorn, Daniel Hernandez, Andrea Wong, plastic orchid factory
performances by Ambr Aria, Like the Mind, Mini Maze, Yawn, Dálava, Shruti Ramani Trio, Jazz Latin Syndicate, Improv Karaoke, Manuela Tessi, Olivia Shaffer, plastic orchid factory, Vanessa Goodman
Past Performances
2023
image: Chris Randle
EDAM Choreographic Series | March 2023
Work by Isabelle Kirouac & Delia Brett, Alexis Fletcher and Peter Bingham
March 15, 16, 17, 22, 24, 25, 2023
image: David Cooper
2022
EDAM Choreographic Series | Fall 2022
EDAM Dance presents new works by
Nayana Fielkov, Lisa Mariko Gelley and Peter Bingham
Presented in-person
October 26, 28, 29, November 4 @8pm + November 5 @2pm & @8pm
/ Senescence / and / 49.3° N, 123.6° W /
presented by
Acker Stadt Palast (Berlin, Germany)
Aug 7, 2022 @ 20:00
Choreographer, Performer: Olivia Shaffer
Choreographer, Performer, Dramaturg: Diego Romero
Musician, Performer: Alex Mah
Contributing dramaturg's for Senescence: Raïna von Waldenburg, Chick Snipper
image: Chris Randle
image: Chris Randle
EDAM Choreographic Series | Spring 2022
Featuring new work by guest artists Kate Franklin & Ralph Escamillan, and a directed improvisation by Peter Bingham & the EDAM Company.
May 25, 27, 28 & June 1, 3, 4, 2022
8pm @ EDAM (303 East 8th ave. Vancouver, BC)
Senescence
presented by
Vancouver International Dance Festival
March 24 - March 26 @ 6:30pm
Created by Olivia Shaffer with Alex Mah
Tickets
By donation/Free
(preregistration required)
KW Atrium Studio
110-351 Abbott St, Vancouver
image: Yvonne Chew
image: Chris Randle
EDAM Choreographic Series | Winter 2022
New Work by Generous Mess, Zahra Shahab, and Peter Bingham & the EDAM Company.
March 9, 11, 12, 16, 18 & 19, 2022 @ 8pm
(Wed/Fri/Sat)
Tickets
$20-$30
at EDAM Dance
303 E. 8th Ave, Vancouver BC
image: Sharai Mustatia
Kwê
by Jeanette Kotowich
with Stéphanie Cyr, Tamar Tabori, and Olivia Shaffer
Matriarchs Uprising 2022
Live in-person at The Dance Centre
February 18 - 19, 7PM | free or by donation
Dance In Vancouver 2021
Digital Offering (livestream)
November 26, 7pm | free
Kwê is derived from iskwêw (femme Spirit) and iskotêw (fire). It provides a fluid container to intentionally define and amplify iskwêwak sovereignty and dismantle dominant colonial and patriarchal narratives with vulnerability, courage and heart.
2021
image: Chris Randle
EDAM Choreographic Series | Fall 2021
Featuring new work by guest artists Kelly McInnes & Marissa Wong, and a directed improvisation by Peter Bingham & the EDAM Company.
October 27, 29, 30 & November 3, 5, 6, 2021
8pm @ EDAM
2020
Co.Erasga presents
Offering
Choreography by Alvin Tolentino
Performance by Olivia Shaffer, Joshua Ongcol, Marc Arboleda, Antonio Somera,
Molly McDermott, Marissa Wong, and Alvin Tolentino.
Saturday, Nov 28 / 3pm
Sunday, Nov 29 / 3pm
Live stream tickets only.
Sliding scale by donation, $5-$30.
Tickets: https://www.simplyk.io/ticketing/5f36fea89a77220029a29e00...
EDAM Choreographic Series | Fall 2020
Featuring new work by guest artists Benjamin Kamino & Antonio Somera Jr., and a directed improvisation by the EDAM Company.
November 11, 13, 14, 18, 20 & 21, 2020
8pm @ EDAM
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—CANCELLED due to COVID—
Vancouver International Dance Festival
presents…
Senescence
March 26 27 & 28 @ 7pm
Roundhouse Exhibition Hall
181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver, BC
Free with $5 VIDF membership
—CANCELLED due to COVID—
2019
New Works presents
Olivia Shaffer: Senescence
Kelly McInnes: Blue Space
Saturday, November 16, 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, November 17, 2:00 p.m
The Annex, 823 Seymour Street
Tickets: Sliding scale $8 – $18 – $28.
Pay what you can afford.
Book online at mixed-program.eventbrite.ca
The theme of hope in the face of mourning is at the heart of this mixed-program of contemporary dance featuring new creations by local choreographers and dancers, Olivia Shaffer and Kelly McInnes.
Senescence is a daughter’s personal reflection into caregiving for her father during his struggle with Parkinson’s disease and dementia. Olivia Shaffer dives into movement, text, and music, in collaboration with composer Alex Mah, to confront the inevitable failures in planning for our own mortality.
In Blue Space, Kelly McInnes explores our intrinsic connection as humans to water -- the water that makes up our bodies and the planet we inhabit. Blue Space explores tensions between the healing and the exploitation involved in our relationship to this essential aspect of our existence.
EDAM Dance presents
Featuring new work by guest artists Daina Ashbee and Yves Candau, and a directed improvisation by the EDAM Company.
October 23, 25, 26, 30 and November 1 & 2, 2019
8pm @ EDAM
Tickets
Purchase online in advance for discounted rates:
$10 Oct 23
$15 Oct 25-30
$20 Nov 1-2
Day of Dance Innovators
Thursday, August 1, 2019
5 - 6:30 PM
Broadway Performance Hall
1625 Broadway, Seattle WA
$10 at the door
Works by:
MICHELLE BOULÉ / RAPHAEL XAVIER / OLIVIA SHAFFER / HEATHER KRAVAS / EMMA HRELJANOVIC
Small Stages
Summer Series outdoor event:
Saturday July 13 @ Bute-Robson Plaza
Sunday July 14 @ North Vancouver Shipyards
4 PM - FREE
Choreographer / Performer : Olivia Shaffer
EDAM Dance presents
New Work
by Idan Cohen, Jennifer McLeish-Lewis, and Peter Bingham
Six Performances:
Wednesday, April 9th, 8:00pm
Friday, April 11th, 8:00pm
Saturday, April 12th, 8:00pm
Wednesday, April 17th, 8:00pm
Friday, April 19th, 8:00pm
Saturday, April 20th, 8:00pm
at EDAM studio,
Western Front
303 East 8th Ave.
Vancouver,BC
Tickets:
$10-$25 +gst
Online (Brown Paper Tickets) or at the door
Boombox
February 23 & 24, 2019
7 PM at Boombox
Works by
Olivia Shaffer and Nayana Fielkov
Katie Lowen
Alex Mah
By-donation show (recommended donation of $15 per performance, cash only)
Tickets and info:
vancouverboombox@gmail.com
Fragile Forms
Presented by MACHiNENOiSY and PuSh International Performing Arts Festival presents
February 2-7, 2019
at Anvil Centre, New Westminster
Tickets $29/$17
6pm & 8:30pm shows each day
CHOREOGRAPHERS/DIRECTORS
Delia Brett and Daelik
DANCER COLLABORATORS Maria Autio, Minna Karttunen, Kelly McInnes, Diego Romero, Olivia Shaffer, Rianne Svelnis, Lexi Vajda
SOUND ARTIST Nancy Tam
VISUAL ARTIST, DESIGNER Natalie Purschwitz
LIGHTING DESIGNER Conor Moore
ARCHITECTURAL COLLABORATORS
Peeroj Thakre and Henning Knoetzele
ARCHITECT, AUTHOR CONSULTANT
Juhani Pallasmaa
image: Natalie Purschwitz
2019
Blood from Stone
Presented by Donna Redlick Dance
Friday, November 30 at 8:00pm
Saturday, December 1 at 8:00pm
at The Dance Centre
“None of us stands outside humanity’s black collective shadow.”
- Carl Jung
Inspired by past and present stories of Vancouver’s historic Blood Alley, Blood from Stone is an evocative and haunting new contemporary dance work by Vancouver choreographer Donna Redlick. Legend holds that executions and hangings took place in the alley and that buckets of blood spilled down the cobblestones from the alley’s butcher shops. Today the alley continues to ride upon these somewhat fabricated stories creating an energy that invites us to bring forward our darker shadow selves. What is partly a historical fiction has become a conceived and perceived truth that affects the alley’s current day actions and lived experiences.
The work is performed by dance artists; Salome Nieto, Alisoun Payne, Olivia Shaffer, and Cara Siu, with lighting design by Philip Birkby.
About Donna Redlick Dance
http://www.donnaredlick.com/Home.html
Purchase Tickets at Tickets Tonight:
http://www.ticketstonight.ca/includes/events/index.cfm?action=displayDetail&eventid=18758
EDAM Dance presents
New Work
by Lesley Telford, Arash Khakpour and Peter Bingham
Six Shows
Wednesday, November 7th, 8:00pm
Friday, November 9th, 8:00pm
Saturday, November 10th, 8:00pm
Wednesday, November 14th, 8:00pm
Friday, November 16th, 8:00pm
Saturday, November 17th, 8:00pm
at EDAM studio,
Western Front
303 East 8th Ave.
Vancouver,BC
Tickets:
$10-$20 +gst
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3717296
EDAM’s Artistic Director, Peter Bingham, has developed Snail Tornado, a directed improvisation. Performed by Anne Cooper, Elissa Hanson, Arash Khakpour, Walter Kubanek, Diego Romero and Olivia Shaffer.
Guest artist Lesley Telford has worked with collaborators Heather Myers and Barbara Adler to create "Anecdote / Bad Day at Mt. Vesuvius."
Guest artist Arash Khakpour has created "Skinning and Unskinning: Please retain this for future reference," in collaboration with performers, Marisa Gold, Billy Marchenski and Mitcholos Touchie.