PERFORMANCE LAB

PERFORMANCE LAB PROGRAM

A mentorship program for interdisciplinary, contemporary performance, dance, and/or
non-traditional theatre artists.

A mentorship program that provides artists with studio and financial support alongside one-on-one mentorship with a mentor that invites participants to interrogate and innovate their artistic process. The program offers a new mentor each year and artists are selected through an application process.

PAST PARTICIPANTS

2024

Julian Legere / Cocksure Productions
Cheyenne Scott

Mentor: Adrienne Wong

Lee Ingram

Mentor: Pam Tzeng

2022

A dancer on her with her arms spread wide up against a screen with a variety of text across the top.

A dancer kneeling. They hold a thin piece of wire that is a attached to a pile of it on the ground beside them.

Hilary Ho
The Beckoning

Sierra Megas
beach studies

Mentor: Andrew Barrett

2021

A grid of 9 photos that feature close up photos of different body parts

The shadow of a person behind a screen. They hold a bright light that shines in the middle of their shadow.

A drawing on a water colour background of a person looking into a mirror.

Sophie Underwood (Victoria, BC)
In Motion

Colette Habel (Vancouver, BC)
Sensitive Content

Ryan Wilcox (Halifax, NS)
i think i loved you (and it scares me)

Mentor: Stewart Legere

2020

A father and son laughing together in a chair

A screenshot from Zoom that shows two people each in their own kitchens and a third screen with an overhead view of the food waiting to be cooked

A screenshot from a website entitled “Royal Academy of Intelligent Design”

Howard Dai (Vancouver)
The Rex Project

happy/accidents (Vancouver)
a place once called home

FromTheCorner Productions
Selective Memory

Mentor: Adrienne Wong

2019

A close up photo of a person’s face pressed against water and the reflection of the face

Two people standing. One holds a garbage bag and the other leans on the table.

Two dancers face each other with their arms raised. One uses a manual wheelchair and the other is standing.

Embrace Arts (Victoria, BC)
S_ _ _Pace

Re:Current Theatre (Vancouver & Toronto, BC)
100 bad plays about the environment and one red balloon

SNAFU Dance Theatre (Victoria, BC)
SNAFU Shorts: Epidermis Circus and Today you, Tomorrow me.

Administrative Mentor: Clayton Baraniuk

2018

Three artists on a stage, with the backs of audience heads visible in the shot. Two of the artists are holding up a rope that has word cards attached to it. The third artist is picking up another word card.

An artist in a leather jacket holds their arms up with biceps flexed

Two artists stand at a table playing a game. Behind them the game and their scores are being projected onto the curtain.

Milton Lim + Patrick Blenkarn (Vancouver, BC)
culturecaptial

Rose Cotton (Victoria, BC)
Gender is Mine: A One Person Poetry Slam

Broken Down Bus Productions (Victoria, BC)
off on/on off