impulse theatre: creating in the expanse
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OUR MISSION/MANDATEImpulse Theatre creates embodied interdisciplinary theatre and dance performance. The company hosts a community of local, regional, and national artists to collaborate, conspire, create, and learn. Impulse provides springboards for arts workers and performance makers to test new creations, develop their agency, and bridge the gap to the next level of opportunities. Impulse carves out space for work outside of the mainstream and seeks to challenge audiences' relationship to performance. |
our purposes
The purposes of the Society are:
- To advance the public’s appreciation of the performing arts by creating, producing, hosting and touring performances and festivals featuring qualified contemporary theatre and modern dance artists, and by providing accessible and/or free admission to reduce barriers to audience participation.
- To preserve and promote the development of, and excellence in, the theatre and dance industries in Canada by providing training, administrative support and production resources, where such resources are otherwise difficult to access or not available, to enable artists, in particular queer, disabled, or otherwise marginalized practitioners, to collaborate, create original work and develop new audiences.
- To advance education by providing structured learning activities to artists, such as instructional seminars and workshops led by qualified instructors in the areas of arts practice and arts administration, and by providing opportunities for students to publicly exhibit, present, or perform their works in conjunction with these learning activities.
our history
Impulse is primarily based on the beautiful territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən/Victoria, British Columbia.
Impulse Theatre was founded in the summer of 2010 on a rock in the ocean. We have created over twenty new highly visual and engaging works since inception and have brought work to upintheair's rEvolver Theatre Festival, the Belfry's Spark Festival, Intrepid's Winterlab, UnoFest, and YOU Show series, Theatre SKAM's SKAMpede, the Victoria and Vancouver Fringe Festivals, and the Firehall Arts Centre's BC Buds Festival.