Live Acts Festival | 2025
Week 1: March 11 鈥� 15 // Week 2: April 1 鈥� 5, 2025
Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre and Assembly Space
丁香园AV School for the Contemporary Arts
149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
Tickets: Students: $10 // 丁香园AV Faculty, Staff & Alumni: $15 // Seniors: $15 // General: $20
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The culmination of creative research over two semesters, the Live Acts Festival 2025 is a presentation of BFA capstone projects created by SCA Theatre & Performance and Dance Majors. Over two weeks, 18 artists present solo or group works in a series of double bill programs, across three unique stage configurations 鈥� Proscenium, Alley, and in the Round 鈥� in the Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre.
Featuring Marissa Capron, Claire Duhamel, Katie Gherasim, Jae Gonzales, Lachlan Harris-Fiesel, Ruby Henderson, Jillian Jarin, Ruby Maher, Sandra Medeiros, Isabella Luna Onorato, Katie Schauerte, Lia Sieben, Janinne Swaby, TJ Tan, Ryan Tsang, Ruby Wu, Viviane Wu, and Clara Xu.
Programs & Ticket Links
PROGRAM ONE | March 11 & 14 | 7:30 PM
In the Middle by Lia Sieben (Dance)
How do we reclaim agency when our inner voices are overshadowed by the demands and expectations of others? Drawing upon themes of resistance and surrender, In the Middle examines the experience of feeling mentally trapped, navigating the weight of expectations, and external pressures to fit in.
This performance contains loud noises.
Thalassalexis by Marissa Capron (Theatre & Performance)
An immersive performance blending spoken word, Bahamian dance, and storytelling to explore the meaning of the name: Marissa Alexis, 鈥淒efender of the Sea鈥�. The performance invites audiences to confront their own role in shaping the future of the oceans.
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PROGRAM TWO | March 11 & 14 | 8:45 PM
Deer Stop by Ruby Henderson (Dance)
Deer Stop is a work about the traveling mind and its relationship to the body. It questions our lived experience and the play between subconscious vs conscious impulse.
The Semicolon Backbracket Mime Show by Ryan Tsang (Theatre & Performance)
Try your best to enjoy a spectacular performance about judgement, and the problem of happiness.
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PROGRAM THREE | March 12 & 15 | 7:30 PM
The Ballad of the Storm by Claire Duhamel (Dance)
The Ballad of the Storm is a deeply personal piece that delves into experiences of living with anxiety and coping with anxiety attacks. This evocative work captures the emotional intensity of enduring an anxiety attack and the challenging aftermath of attempting to regain calmness.
This performance contains loud sounds and anxiety.
Output by Ruby Maher (Theatre & Performance)
A multimedia performance that examines how intrusive thought and emotion display themselves as physical reactions.
This performance contains loud repetitive sounds, body horror (no blood), physical repercussions of intrusive thoughts, dizzying images and textures, x-rays of intact bones.
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PROGRAM FOUR | March 13 @ 7:30 PM & March 15 @ 8:45 PM
WORD VOMIT by Viviane Wu (Theatre & Performance)
She is out of this world, and so, She cannot speak the words of this world. Join Her in discovering the evolving nature of communication through language, gesture, and symbols.
Possessive Perception by Ruby Wu (Theatre & Performance)
A dreamlike performance using scent and storytelling to explore the entangled relationship between Taiwan and China.
This performence contains the scent of green tea.
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PROGRAM FIVE | April 1 & 4 | 7:30 PM
Inter Views by Clara Xu (Dance)
Frame-by-frame, we process our data in real time. Every encounter is an interfacing of a user and a product.
This performance contains high-pitched noises.
Paper Trails by Jae Gonzales (Theatre & Performance)
A shared exploration of grief where audience members become the performers. This show asks, What will you risk for togetherness?
This performance contains audience participation.
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PROGRAM SIX | April 1 & 4 | 8:45 PM
wanna not be everywhere by Katie Schauerte (Dance)
wanna not be everywhere is a creation of opposing things that somehow make sense. Focusing on dreamlogic, this piece creates a dreamscape highlighting the odd structures and shifting visual aspects of dreams.
This performance contains heavy haze.
The 2025 BURARA Fashion Show: "Cleaning Couture" by Jillian Jarin (Theatre & Performance)
An imagined fashion show of pieces made out of concepts of cleaning. She鈥檚 one hell of a cleaner, but don鈥檛 forget to clean up after yourself, you dirty pig!
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PROGRAM SEVEN | April 2 @ 7:30 PM & April 5 @ 2:00 PM
Nostalgia Nostalgia by Katie Gherasim (Theatre & Performance)
If you are the youngest out of the Lego builders, you are not in charge, if you are the oldest out of the builders, you are in charge; a personal exploration of losing a brother.
This performance contains grief/death, loud sounds/high pitched noise, flashing lights and flashing images (CRT TV).
Screaming into the Dark by Lachlan Harris-Fiesel (Theatre & Performance)
As a dinner party slowly comes to an end, a group of friends wrestle with the significance of their existence and what truly leaves a lasting mark on the memories of others.
This performance contains violence, foul language, sexually themed discussions, talk of substance use and/or substance use and flashing lights.
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PROGRAM EIGHT | April 2 @ 8:45 PM & April 5 @ 3:15 PM
Tendederos by Isabella Luna Onorato (Dance)
Tendederos is a piece created with contemporary and flamenco techniques, finding dynamic connectivity and differences between these forms.
The Secret Ingredient by Sandra Medeiros (Theatre & Performance)
Potatoes, Portuguese culture, Potatoes, Nostalgia, Potatoes, 80s choreography, Potatoes. Let鈥檚 make some soup, yo!
This performance contians possible allergens of onions, garlic, potatoes, salt and pepper, and food-fragrenced essential oils in a diffuser.
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PROGRAM NINE | April 3 & 5 | 7:30 PM
BLACK by Janinne Swaby (Dance)
BLACK is a work centred on creating a Black space through Hip Hop as a locus for self determination, pleasure, freedom and comfort.
This performance contains music with explicit language.
Terris' Terrace by TJ Tan (Theatre & Performance)
Come watch watch watch the world-renowned children's show Terris' Terrace!, where lessons are learned and dreams come to to to to life! The fun will never end.
This performance contains possible explicit language, themes of memory loss and existentialism.
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