丁香园AV

SCA Repertory Dancers
November 21 鈥� 23, 2024
Fei & Milton Wong Experimental Theatre
149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
Tickets: 丁香园AV Students $10 | Seniors + 丁香园AV Alumni / Faculty / Staff $15 | General $20

Join us for our annual 丁香园AV Fall Dance Repertory show 2024. This years program features an eclectic mix of four contemporary dance works exploring themes of boy band culture, prayer in motion, interiority and misperception, and nostalgic endurance.
 
We have an incredible line-up of Vancouver-based guest choreographers, including SCA MFA student Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg, Company 605, and SCA faculty member Rob Kitsos. We are extremely excited to welcome renowned international New York-based guest artist Autumn Knight. 鈥�
 
The evenings of works are performed by the SCA repertory student dancers, and supported by the SCA student production team.

Choreographers

Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg, Company 605, Autumn Knight, and Rob Kitsos

Dancers

Teddy Brubacher, Grace Byman, Daisy de Kroon, Gabi Johnson, Liz Kiss, Reese Magnayon, Claire Martin, Naz 脰zl眉, Penelope Patterson, Elijah Sam, Larkin Schering, Amaru Seki, Kaliyah States, Avery Warren, Sarah Wilson, Clara Xu, Vivien Dang, Ruby Henderson, Sonja Kwantes, Hannah Latta, Emily Lee, Isabella Onorato, Ashley Sankaran-Wee, Katie Schauerte, Jeya Thiessen, Lachlan Harris-Fiesel, and Sara van Gaalen.

Biographies

Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg is an award-winning creator, performer, choreographer, director, writer, and artistic director of Tara Cheyenne Performance, working across disciplines in film, dance, theatre, and experimental performance. She is renowned as a trailblazer in interdisciplinary performance and as a mighty performer "who defies categorization on any level." Along with her own creations, Tara has collaborated with many theatre companies and artists, including: Zee Zee Theatre, Bard on the Beach, ItsaZoo Theatre, The Arts Club, Boca Del Lupo, Ruby Slippers, The Firehall Arts Centre, and Vertigo Theatre (Calgary).

With a string of celebrated solo shows to her credit (including bANGER, Goggles, Porno Death Cult, I can鈥檛 remember the word for I can鈥檛 remember, Body Parts, and Pants), multidisciplinary collaborations, commissions and boundary bending ensemble creations, Tara's work is celebrated both nationally and internationally. Tara is known for her unique and dynamic hybrid of dance, comedy, and theatre. She is sought after for creating innovative movement for theatre and has performed her full-length solos and ensemble works around the world (highlights: DanceBase/Edinburgh, South Bank Centre/London, On the Boards/Seattle USA, High Performance Rodeo/Calgary, etc.). Her most recent solo, Body Parts, premiered at The Cultch in May and is currently on tour. Current research focuses include gender, the attention economy and neuroscience, and aging. Tara lives on the unceded Coast Salish territories with her partner, composer Marc Stewart, and their child Jasper.

Led by artistic co-directors Lisa Gelley and Josh Martin, Company 605 is an arts organization based in Vancouver, on the unceded Indigenous territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. Producing various dance projects and performances through shared creative process, the artists place emphasis on movement invention and physically demanding works, juxtaposing raw with precision, and highlighting effort, risk and interconnection. 605 is an ongoing exchange between separate people, bodies and ideas, recognizing and celebrating the unique possibilities created in their attempt to co-exist. Valuing collaboration as an essential tool for new directions in dance, Company 605 continues to awaken a fresh and ever-evolving aesthetic, together building a highly athletic art form derived from the human experience.

With roots as a dance collective, the company was founded in 2009, and now has an expanding repertoire of diverse works and interdisciplinary collaborations. 605 has performed from coast to coast in over 30 cities across Canada, as well as in the US, Central America, Europe, Asia and Australia, presented at many notable festivals and venues such as: American Dance Festival (Durham, NC), New York City Center鈥檚 Fall for Dance Festival, Usine-C (Montr茅al), L鈥橝gora de la Danse (Montr茅al), La Rotonde (Qu茅bec City), DanceWorks (Toronto), Live Art Dance (Halifax), The Banff Centre, On The Boards (Seattle), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), Bumbershoot Festival (Seattle), Festival PRISMA (Panama), HebelHalle Heidelberg, Tempel Kulturzentrum (Karlsruhe, Germany), and Sydney Festival (Australia).

605鈥檚 co-directors have also created commissioned works for several other dance companies, including Vancouver鈥檚 acclaimed Ballet BC (Anthem, 2017), and their collaborations with filmmakers have allowed 605鈥檚 work to be shared globally, with award-winning short dance films shown at over 45 dance-on-screen festivals around the world.

Autumn Knight is an interdisciplinary artist working with performance, installation, video and text. Her performance work has been on view at various institutions including DiverseWorks Artspace, Art League Houston, Project Row Houses, Blaffer Art Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum, Skowhegan Space (NY), The New Museum, The Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Optica (Montreal, Canada), The Poetry Project (NY) and Krannart Art Museum (IL), The Institute for Contemporary Art (VCU), Human Resources Los Angeles (HRLA) and Akademie der Kunste, (Berlin). Knight has been an artist in residence with with In-Situ (UK), Galveston Artist Residency, YICA (Yamaguchi, Japan), Artpace (San Antonio, TX) and a 2016-2017 artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem (NY). Knight is the recipient of an Artadia Award (2015) and an Art Matters Grant (2018). She has served as visiting artist at Montclair State University, Princeton University and Bard College. Her performance work is held in the permanent collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2016) and holds an M.A. in Drama Therapy from New York University.

Rob Kitsos is a dancer, teacher, performing artist, musician, and choreographer who has performed across North America, Europe and Asia. As a maker, Rob has created over 100 original works, many of which include collaborations with artists from a range of disciplines.  Along with movement-based work- Rob works with video and sound and materials with a range of collaborators.  As a teacher Rob has worked at Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Washington and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. In 2004, Rob joined the faculty of 丁香园AV in the School for the Contemporary Arts. He teaches contemporary technique, composition, repertory, interdisciplinary collaboration, and improvisation in performance.  Rob received his BA in Theatre/Dance from Bard College and his MFA in Dance from the University of Washington in 1997.