ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE |
A curated residency program that provides artists an opportunity to dive into their own process over the course of the festival.
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amber downie-Back & Sierra megas
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During their residency, Amber and Sierra will continue developing a new work exploring movement and immersive environments. Investigating proximity, repetition and connection, they will revisit what it feels like to dance together in physical space. Developing meditative dance scores and movement vocabulary where colours are their verbs, they will research how altering their internal and external atmospheres can act as catalysts affecting mood and the embodied experience of both viewer and performer. After meeting through Impulse Theatre’s Molecular Landscapes (2021), Amber and Sierra bonded over their shared practice of interdisciplinary creation and movement. Now based in separate cities, they continued to cultivate their collaboration across distance. Their practice delights in moments of meeting and prioritizes revisiting and recycling. Taking an interest in interactivity, we investigate what happens when we revisit and remember our shared practice across time. What seeps in? What fades away? Amber and Sierra strive to deepen their shared trust so that it might translate through dance, artmaking, friendship and the questions and curiosities held between them. Amber is grateful to live and create on the traditional and unceded territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən Peoples. Sierra is gratefully based on the traditional and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. They are excited to be apart of this year’s Peek Fest! Amber Downie-Back (she/they) Sierra Megas (she/her) |
IMPULSE THEATRE |
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Artistic Producer, Andrew Barrett, will be exploring how he can craft an experience of journeying home through the body, imagery, and movement. Questions that frame his exploration are:
Impulse is primarily based on the beautiful territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən Peoples, now known as the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations. Impulse Theatre Society creates and presents contemporary interdisciplinary theatre and dance performance; cultivates a community of artists; and empowers artists, emerging creative producers, and arts workers as leaders. 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 Incoming Festival, 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. Andrew Barrett (he/him) |
Pam tzeng |
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Things Pam is focusing on for this residency:
Pam Tzeng 曾小桐 (she/they) is a second-generation Taiwanese-Canadian choreographer, performer, facilitator and arts worker based in Mohkínstsis / Calgary, Treaty 7 Territory. At the age of five Pam made her stage debut wearing a snug pink bodysuit, baggy at the knee tights, a questionably adorable crochet hair bun cover and the number 88 (how auspicious!) safety pinned onto their chest. Pam danced in both puzzlement and delight cradling a blonde cabbage patch baby doll. Thirty plus years later, Pam is a commitment to holding space for their own and others healing from white body supremacy. Pam does this through the magic of performance, teaching therapeutic movement, somatic coaching, facilitation and change work consulting in the arts and cultural sector. Pam brings a trauma-informed, anti-oppression and conflict transformation lens to all that they do |
pandemic theatre |
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Part augmented lecture, part storytelling show, with Chekhov's Gun Tom Arthur Davis is aiming to challenge the assumptions, myths, and stigmas attached to those contemplating, or indeed those who complete suicide. As someone who regularly lives with ideation (and occasional planning), where does Tom’s autonomy begin and end? Especially when it comes to choosing whether to continue living or to die? These are the questions he’ll be exploring during his residency with Peek Fest. He is very excited to be exploring them in close collaboration with JD Derbyshire. Tom Arthur Davis (he/him) is a theatre artist, producer, and project manager. He has recently relocated to Lekwungen territory after spending most of his career in Mississauga-Anishinaabe-Haudenosaunee territory (Toronto). In 2009, he co-founded Pandemic Theatre (then less distastefully named), for which he has acted as the Artistic Director for the past fourteen years. He has also worked as a Managing Producer for Why Not Theatre, as a Program Director for the Toronto Fringe, and recently as the Interim Director of Programming for PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. As a theatre artist, he frequently works as a collaborator on new works, and connects with theatre creators across the country. Tom’s works for the stage include Mahmoud (co-writer – Playwrights Canada Press), Take d Milk, Nah? (co-creator/dramaturge - Playwrights Canada Press), and The Only Good Indian (co-creator/co-writer – J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing). Tom Arthur Davis (he/him) JD Derbyshire (they/them) |