Residency Reflections: Open Rehearsal with Belle Spirale

Residency Reflections 2025-26

Open Rehearsal with Belle Spirale Dance Projects

with support as a New Works' Artist in Residence

November 21, 2025 | 5:30-6:30pm

Roundhouse Community Centre, 181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver

FREE

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About the work: 

We're exploring the actual moment of decision-making - that often split-second pause before you respond (or react) to another person, a world event, or a deeply personal choice. Where in the body does this conversation happen? What occurs in that momentary space between stimulus and response?

Central to this research is the lived experience of Co-Artistic Director Alexis Fletcher and co-creator/performer Ariana Barr as empathetic and nuanced female artists.

Join us for this showing and facilitated discussion as we share work-in-progress from our very first week of creation. This is Belle Spirale at its most vulnerable and authentic - ideas still forming, questions still unfolding, community invited in.

About the Belle Spirale:

Belle Spirale Dance Projects is a Vancouver-based arts organization founded by Alexis Fletcher and Sylvain Senez, situated on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.

Fletcher, a former principal dancer and current rehearsal director at Ballet BC, and Senez, a longtime Ballet BC principal artist, rehearsal director, and 2024 DORA Award nominee, began co-creating independent works in 2016. Together, they have produced ten original creations supported by leading arts institutions across Canada.

Their grassroots platform, The Dance Deck, launched in 2015, has become a cherished part of Vancouver’s summer arts scene. Belle Spirale emphasizes collaboration, commissioning, and a heart-centred approach to dance, creating visually striking and poetic works that foster connection and community.

Belle Spirale is honoured to be nominated for Best Dance Company in the 2025 Best of Vancouver Awards.

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Learn more details about the event:

https://www.newworks.ca/residency-reflections-with-belle-spirale/

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Presented in partnership with the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre