impulse theatre presents
molecular landscapes
july 29 to august 8
free / multiple outdoor sites

​When do your molecules dance?

Impulse Theatre brings a soft and joyful work of site-responsive dance theatre to you in local parks, hills, forests, and lagoons. molecular landscapes is a process-based project that started in early June with research visits and creative explorations of multiple sites across lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ territories. The team, spurred by their curiosities, have collaboratively crafted a long-form structured improvisation informed by research into local fauna and flora, our molecular ancestors, soft sculptures, local histories, the body in nature, and much more.

The project asks us to carry our bodies back into ecosystems that created us. It is a love story about the joy and magic of nature created. It is a reminder of where we came from, and where we pour our attention.
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​ATTENDANCE INFO
  • All performances are free.
  • But you're welcome to donate through the link below!
  • We advise arriving at locations five minutes early to ensure you have enough time to travel and/or find the location.
  • A human (see Andrew Barrett's lavender face below) will inform you where the performance is taking place at that time.
  • Bring a meal! Set up a picnic blanket! it's dinner and a happening.
  • The performance can be more like an installation, so feel free to move around and see it from difference perspectives.
  • Dress/prepare for the weather. Be mindful of heat and the forecast.
  • Bring a cushion or chair if you need it. We empower your comfort!

If you’re interested in supporting the project, please considering donating at donorbox.org/molecularlandscapes

Thank you to the generous support of the Province of British Columbia and the CRD Arts Support Service on this project.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE & LOCATIONS​

Wednesday, August 4 - Highrock Park
Thursday, August 5 - Saxe Point Park
Friday, August 6 - míqәn / Beacon Hill Park
Saturday, August 7 + 8 - Witty’s Lagoon + Salt Spring Island
     Filming Guerilla Pop Up Performances


Locations are subject to change; check back for updates.

We are grateful to live, create, and perform on the unceded and traditional territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən, W̱SÁNEĆ, and Quw'utsun peoples.

the artists

andrew barrett he/him
Facilitator/Choreographer

Andrew is a queer multidisciplinary theatre artist based on Lekwungen territory/Victoria, BC. He is a creator, performer, teacher, choreographer, director, and administrator. 

As the Artistic Producer of Impulse Theatre, he has led the creation and presentation of over fifteen new works and established the company’s annual festival Peek Fest. As a solo artist, he attended One Yellow Rabbit’s Summer Lab Intensive in 2016 and was one of Dance Victoria’s 2020/21 Artists-in-Residence. He regularly brings his hybrid dance and theatre ideology to creative partnerships as a performer, choreographer, and movement consultant.

nicole bartosinski she/her
​performer

Nicole is a multidisciplinary artist who is currently based in Victoria BC.  As an Alumni of the Canadian College of Performing Arts, she has dipped her paintbrush in playwriting, choreography, and acting for film and stage. She has worked with Story Theatre company touring BC & Alberta, as well the Greater Victoria Shakespeare Company as both an actor and movement director. This is Nicole's first project with Impulse Theatre and is grateful to return to the world of creating, dancing, and performing with Molecular Landscapes. 

allison brooks ​she/her
​performer

​Over the last 3 years Allison has been a dancer for Winnipeg’s  Contemporary Dancers Artist in Residence Program and participated in the creation of three world premieres with choreographers Jera  Wolf (2021), Jasmine Ellis (2019), and Jason Martin (2018). Prior, she was a member of WCD’s Verge with Stephanie Ballard and Brent Lott. She performed with Meagan O’Shea in Dance Like No One’s Watching in Victoria and St. John's Newfoundland, and in O’Shea’s The Love Project in Vancouver. Allison has performed  with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra under  the direction of Odette Hey, and internationally with GPS Dance Collective in Leon Guanajuato  Mexico (2017). 

amber downie-back she/her
​Performer

Amber is a dancer and interdisciplinary artist interested in integrating dance in collaborative contexts with other mediums such as music and video art. Her practice examines the reflection of natural space in the digital world. She is interested in the physiological and somatic responses elicited by anxiety, as well as the environments that soothe them. She creates transformative experiences that are intimate, communal, and atmospheric.

Amber lives on the traditional and unceded territory belonging to the Lekwungen Peoples, on whose territory she is grateful to perform and dance.

VÉRONIQUE EMMETt SHE/HER
​performer

Véronique is a dance artist living and creating on unceded Lekwungen territory. She is a graduate of the Professional Programs at the Winnipeg School of Contemporary Dancers (2016) and Decidedly Jazz Danceworks (2020), and holds a BA (Hons) in Dance from the University of Winnipeg (2016). Véronique has had the honour of working with many renowned artists and companies across Canada including Free Flow Dance, Bisia Belina, Jennifer Mascall, Koba Entertainment, NAfro Dance Productions, Stand Up Dance, SOS Dance, Stephanie Ballard and Dancers, and Kelly Hobson.

Véronique’s explorations in movement are influenced by our collective desire to find connection to the environment, to each other, and to ourselves.

CORINA FISCHER SHE/THEY
costume designer

Corina Fischer (she/they) is a multidisciplinary performance designer/practitioner and a recent graduate of the University of Victoria's theatre program (BFA 2021). They grew up on the unceded territories of the Lekwungen speaking people, and have been privileged to work on a number of land based creations here. Select projects include A Midsummer Night's Dream (Costume design, Green World Theatre Company, 2021), WOODSONG - 1000 seconds, 1000 years for Old Growth (Performance, 2021),The Memory of Water: Rock Bay Creek (Performance, 2020), Are We All Dead? (Set design, Student Alternative Theatre Company, 2019) and Kid Viking (SKAMpede 2018).

noah mckimm ​he/him
​PERFORMER

Noah is a freelance dance artist living and working in Victoria. Having trained in Montreal and Vancouver, he is adept in both classical and commercial dance forms. Selected recent credits include Third Canvas’ Brambles Child (Victoria, 2019) Small Stage Winter Series (Vancouver, 2019), and Impulse Theatre’s Conversations with the Sea (SKAMpede 2020). Noah most recently finished a session with the Performance Research Project in Vancouver.

sierra megas she/her
​PERFORMER

Sierra Megas is currently based on the traditional territories of the Lkwungen (lək̓ʷəŋən) (Esquimalt and Songhees) peoples in Victoria, BC. She holds a BAH in English Literature from Queen's University, a Certificate in Visuals Arts from Yukon School of Visual Arts, and 3 years of self-directed study in contemporary dance and Contact Improvisation. In 2020, she was a recipient of EDAM Dance’s Scholarship Training Program. Sierra is in the early stages of developing her creative practice as a dance artist. She engages with dance as a playful form of expression, and a way to explore her identity and relationships with environments.
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research team

Andrew Barrett, Nicole Bartosinski, Allison Brooks, Amber Downie-Back, Noah McKimm, and Sierra Megas.

special thanks

N. Zoey Gauld and Julie Mombourquette for their creative contributions.
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