Residency Reflections: Open Rehearsal with Belle Spirale Dance Projects
COLORES, co-produced by Alyssa Favero and Ana Sosa with support as a New Works’ Artist In Residence, brings together performers and audience members to celebrate the roots of waacking/whacking and Asian diaspora lineages.
Date/Time: Nov 21 2025, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Vancouver, Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | Event calendar181 Roundhouse Mews
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with support as a New Works' Artist in Residence
About the work
This November, Belle Spirale Dance Projects heads into the Performance Centre for a Creation and Lighting Residency with support from New Works. Led by Co-Artistic Directors Alexis Fletcher and Sylvain Senez, this recently formed, celebrated dance group will continue creating their newest work within a theatrical environment. Audiences are invited to join Belle Spirale behind the scenes for an open rehearsal and artist chat on November 21, offering an intimate glimpse into their creative process.
About Belle Spirale
Belle Spirale Dance Projects is a Vancouver-based arts organization led by Artistic Directors Alexis Fletcher and Sylvain Senez. Rooted on the unceded Indigenous territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations, Belle Spirale serves as a collaborative platform for the work of many artists.
Through its evolving creative processes, the organization produces original work by both Fletcher and Senez, while also commissioning choreographies from a range of emerging and established voices. Belle Spirale builds connections between Vancouver’s independent dance community and national and international networks, with a focus on creating poetic, thoughtful, and resonant contemporary dance.
With a cross-disciplinary approach and a deep value on accessibility, the company strives to engage audiences across backgrounds — from seasoned dancegoers to those experiencing contemporary dance for the first time — offering work that fosters meaningful connection, communication, and togetherness through movement.
Residency Reflections
An intimate look into artistic process
Each season, with generous partnership from the Roundhouse Community Centre, New Works supports 1 - 3 artists in a Theatre Residency; dedicated time in a fully-equipped theatre setting to develop a new piece or facet of their practice without the pressure of a pending performance. These artist-led residencies provide essential space, time, and theatrical resources, supporting artists as they bridge their work from the studio to the stage.
At the culmination of each residency, artists welcome the public into a shared moment of curiosity and reflection; this is Residency Reflections. The artist chooses the format of the reflection - maybe an artist talk, open rehearsal, workshop, performance, or installation - as best serves their work and process.
By bringing our focus to creative practice, not creation, Residency Reflections centers artist-audience exchange and celebrates the often unseen moments of creation — the questions, experiments, and relationships that shape new choreographic work.
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