In partnership with the Vancouver Public Library, Pop Up Dances will be celebrating dance and poetry at the VPL’s downtown central branch, featuring some of Vancouver’s most exciting literary and performance artists
Date/Time: Mar 18 2018, 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Vancouver, Vancouver Public LibraryCost: Free
For this series, New Works commissions artists to create short pieces for site-specific settings around public spaces, creating unique settings for audiences to experience dance in a non-traditional setting, unexpected places, and with a fresh perspective.
Project Soul + Rupert Common
Project Soul is a crew of street dancers from Vancouver, BC that have come together to share their passions with each other and with as many communities as they can. Kim Sato is a professional street dance artist and director of Project Soul, whose passion and love for dance has taken her on an amazing journey around the world. Victor “Savage Rock” Tran is an accomplished professional dancer, choreographer, and teacher who continues to compete and perform across the globe independently and as part of Project Soul.
Rupert Common is an interdisciplinary artist and facilitator from Turtle Island, where he lives on un-ceded, Coast Salish Territory (Vancouver, B.C., Canada), and lives a freelance lifestyle devoted to art and culture. He studies and trains in street-dance, rap, improvisation, music theory, guitar, piano and voice. His background in English literature, theatre, comedy and improv inform his approach to stage and street performance.
All Bodies Dance + Amber Dawn
All Bodies Dance Project is an inclusive dance company that brings together artists with and without disabilities to explore movement as a means of creative expression. All Bodies creates an open, safe and fun environment where everyone can experience the joy of moving and creating within a diverse community.
Amber Dawn is a writer living on unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations (Vancouver, Canada). Her memoir How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir won the 2013 Vancouver Book Award. She is the author of the Lambda Award-winning novel Sub Rosa, and editor of the anthologies Fist of the Spider Women: Fear and Queer Desire and With a Rough Tongue. She teaches at Douglas College, UBC, and SFU, and is the director and creative mentor of the Thursdays Writing Collective: a drop-in, community -driven space in the Downtown Eastside, an area challenged by poverty-related issues and beloved for its activism and creativity.
Olivia C. Davies + Julie Peters
Olivia C. Davies is a Canadian artist, working across choreography and community-activated art, exploring the emotional and political relationships between people and places. Davies’ work traverses boundaries and challenges social prejudice, conveying concepts and narratives with pieces and workshops that open different ways to see and experience the world.
Julie Peters is a writer and yoga teacher in Vancouver, B.C. She has represented Vancouver twice at the Women of the World Poetry Slam and was part of the 2012 Vancouver Poetry Slam Team. She is the author of the book Secrets of the Eternal Moon Phase Goddesses: Meditations on Desire, Relationships, and the Art of Being Broken.
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