Dance In Vancouver: Presenting Dance Regionally

PRESENTING DANCE REGIONALLY

With Holly Bright, Miriam Colvin, Karma Lacoff (CAN) and Annette Carmichael, Louisa Norman and Simon Hinton (AUS), facilitated by Jane Gabriels

Australian and Canadian dance presenters seem to share many realities and challenges related to programming and touring contemporary dance in regional or remote areas in both Canada and Australia. This dialogue will be an opportunity to discuss success stories, struggles and ambitions, and compare artists' and audiences' experiences.  How do we cultivate interest and increase greater literacy for contemporary dance? What kind of pre- or post-show audience engagement could be imagined? How to cultivate a longer term relationship to an artist often in passing? These are some of the directions that will be shared by this panel bringing in dialogue presenters from Canada and Australia working regionally.

Also in this conversation series:

Re-Defining Localness

Asian Artists’ Ecologies – Shared Stories/Tokenising Contexts

These conversations have been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body and is proudly supported by the Consulate General of Canada Sydney.

Presented as part of the 13th biennial Dance In Vancouver, November 24-28, 2021.