Brandon Lee Alley
Inspiriting “Inspired by Rubber hose animations, we will be researching unorthodox movements using imagery and sound as a conduit.”
Brandon Lee Alley began his professional career with Hubbard Street 2 followed by one year with BODYTRAFFIC in LA. In 2015, he joined Ballet BC where he had the privilege of dancing many leading roles for 5 seasons. Brandon is also the Co-founder and Artistic Director of Dance//Novella collective based in Vancouver, Canada. In addition to creating dance, Brandon has a passion for sound design. He has made several original scores for dance and is excited to be formalizing his training with an audio engineering diploma from the SAE institute in North Vancouver.
Jess Wilkie
liquid and solid “In this class I would like us to explore movement from a place of play, curiosity and compassion. Starting with guided improvisation as a way to bring awareness and warmth from the distal ends of our bodies to our fluid centres, we will practice moving through sensation and indulging in what feels good. How can we sustain moving freely? How can we push without pushing? Staying within an improvised dance for the majority of the class, we will eventually find our way into a set movement phrase(s), an offering for you to inhabit as you wish, exploring new-found softness, fluidity and articulation.”
Jess Wilkie is a queer dancer, visual artist and movement teacher living on the stolen lands of the Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. She is a graduate of Modus Operandi where she trained in contemporary dance techniques and somatic approaches to movement. Jess’ dance practice is grounded in pleasure and injury prevention, listening to what her body needs and indulging the depths of her freaky imagination through movement. She is an ongoing student of Peter Bingham (contact improvisation) and a Pilates method Educator. Jess has had the opportunity to share choreographic works through Shooting Gallery Performance, BC Buds, Boombox Vancouver, Festival of Recorded Movement and New Works. Jess has had the joy of working with Company 605 over the past 7 years as a performer in various projects as well as touring with the company throughout Canada and Germany.
Jamie Robinson
Paradise Replica “Working with movement tasks of repetition and ‘forevering’, this class unfolds as an improvised exploration of movement as a connective, transcendental experience. We’ll begin this class focused on the individual experience, considering mind/body connection and notions of rest as a tool for relearning. We’ll gradually implement structures of repetition to build towards a shared, connective experience, considering how far movement can take us from ourselves and towards one another.”
Jamie Robinson is an artist living on the unceded territories of the ʷməθkʷəy̓əm, sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and sel̓íl̓witulh Nations. She has studied at Modus Operandi Contemporary Dance Training Program under the direction of Tiffany Tregarthen, David Raymon and Kate Franklin. Jamie has worked as associate artist to Company 605 since 2020. She has interpreted works by Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg, Company 605, and Justine Chambers. Her choreographic works have been supported by Toronto Dance Centre Emerging Voices Program, Adelheid’s re:research, Banff Centre for the Arts, and Dance Victoria. In 2019, she was the recipient of The Iris Garland Emerging Choreographer Award.
Bynh Ho
Re/pattern “In this lab-like class, we will begin with understanding our bodies as programs, run by subconscious patterns and ways of moving. Applying conscious attention and present-moment choice making, we examine how these patterns behave within our bodies and where we can go from here. We will meet our bodies through guided proposals for thought and movement, advocating for their inherent intelligence and updating their patterns to prime a safe embodied experience. We’ll go slowly and to a playlist that can remind us not to take ourselves too seriously.”
Bynh Ho has had the pleasure of working with Company 605 for more than five years as a collaborator, interpreter, performer, and otherwise. Works featured include “Vital Few” and “Loop, Lull” for stage, as well as works for film, such as “Cipher” and 605’s latest work “Future Futures”. Bynh’s formalized training began with Modus Operandi before graduating with a BFA from The Juilliard School. They have performed the works of choreographers including: Pina Bausch, William Forsythe, Ohad Naharin, and Sharon Eyal & Gai Behar, among others, while working closely with companies and choreographers including: Justine Chambers, MascallDance, BODYTRAFFIC, Action at a Distance Dance, Mardon + Mitsuhashi, and Crystal Pite. Their work and practice is based on unceded Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh territories.
Zahra Shahab
body flux “Every identity is composed of several contradicting and harmonizing characters/beings. How can we materialize these beings through movement, what imaginary physical landscapes do they exist within and how do they interact with one another? We will improvise our way into discovering an alternative character or two that exists within us, perhaps an inner outcast, or benevolent monster, and create small movement scores for them to exist in. We will dance these beings together and apart, becoming sensitive to the impact of various methods of witnessing/receiving one another.”
Zahra Shahab is an independent dance artist living on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish people. She is a graduate of the University of Calgary School of Creative and Performing Arts as well as Modus Operandi Contemporary Dance Training Program (Vancouver). Her choreographic practice takes root in the fantastical and the prophetic power of coaxing our imaginations beyond the confines of white supremacy. Her practice examines the multiplicity of characters that we use to adapt to the world both as a tool for survival as well as portals of expansion into ways of being that are beyond our cultures normative script. She has presented choreographic work and experimental video in Calgary at the Fluid Festival, Calgary Underground Film Festival, University of Calgary and Alberta Dance Festival, in Vancouver at Dance in Vancouver, Shooting Gallery Performance, Festival of Recorded Movement, PushOFF, and New Works Performance, in Toronto at the Toronto Dance Theatre’s Emerging Voices Program, and Mexico City’s Movimiento en Movimiento. You can see some of her work at zahrashahab.ca.
Jeanette Kotowich
Movement Offering with Jeanette Kotowich “We gather for this workshop to connect with embodied practices related to Jeanette’s research in Métis & Nêhiyaw Cosmology that bridge movement expressions into contemporary dance and performance practices. This is an experiential movement workshop, sharing Indigenous cultural perspectives and contempoary dance approaches. Bring your courageous hearts as we intentionally explore specific values to nourish our practices. Together we will stoke our creative fires with compassion, kindness, bravery & joy.”
Jeanette is a multi-disciplinary iskwêw, independent dance artist, creator, choreographer and Auntie Culture enthusiast of Nêhiyaw Métis and mixed settler ancestry. Originally from Treaty 4 territory Saskatchewan, she creates work that reflects Nêhiyaw/Métis cosmology within the context of contemporary dance, Indigenous performance, and Indigenous futurism. Fusing interdisciplinary collaboration, de-colonial practices and embodied research methodologies; Jeanette’s work references protocol, ritual, relationship to the natural/spirit world and Ancestral knowledge. Her practice is intergenerational and vocational; it’s a living and lived experience. Jeanette resides as a guest on the Ancestral and unceded Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) əl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ/ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) territories, colonially known as Vancouver. movementhealing.ca
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