Residency Reflections: Work-in-Progress Sharing with Isak Enquist
Isak Enquist of Little Room Productions, supported as a New Works Artist in Residence, will continue creation on his newest work Fall(se) Cirque(us) this January at the Roundhouse
Date/Time: Jan 11 2026, 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Vancouver, Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | Event calendar181 Roundhouse Mews
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Cost: Free
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Contemporary Dance Class: 10 – 11:30am - Open to all levels
Open Rehearsal: 12 – 2pm. Drop in to witness the creative process behind Fall(se) Cirque(us)
About the Open Rehearsal
During the residency, Isak and collaborators will explore the technical aspects of the piece in a black-box theatre setting — diving into creative and theatrical elements not available in a studio context.
The public is invited into the space for an open rehearsal, offering a behind-the-scenes look at a work-in-progress that will premiere in March 2026.
Contemporary Class Description
This class is centered on pouring weight into the floor, accessing the horizontal plane, and generating power through complex spirals.
Rooted in Isak Enquist’s diverse movement background—including Shotokan Karate-Do, Breaking, snowboarding, Graham, Horton, and contemporary forms—the class develops stability as a platform for creativity by exploring momentum, counter-direction, and the efficient transfer of energy through hands and feet to create expansive movement.
This practice emerges from a belief in expanding embodied expression beyond dominant ballet aesthetics. By sharing alternative physical language, this class supports artists to expand their range, encouraging the reclamation of movement, embodiment, and personal expression.
About Isak Enquist
Isak Doran Enquist is a movement artist, choreographer, actor, teacher, and experimental sound designer living on Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh, Skwxwú7mesh, and xʷməθkwəy̓əm nations. Raised in the Ktunaxa of Canada, he began formal training in Shotokan Karate-Do before pursuing post-secondary dance education at Simon Fraser University and Modus Operandi (Vancouver).
Isak has performed nationally and internationally with Canadian performing companies such as Out Innerspace Dance Theatre, Compagnie Vision Impure, Shay Kuebler Radical System Art, Mahaila Patterson-O’Brien, Amber Funk Barton, Mascall Dance, Generous Mess, Cristina Bucci, Anne Plamondon Productions, and Corporeal Imago. He is on faculty with Vancouver’s Harbour Dance Centre, Lamon Dance Company, and a guest teacher with Training Society of Vancouver, Goh Ballet Academy, and GötesborgOperan Danskompani (Sweden) among many others.
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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