Wonderstruck | Belle Spirale - Good Women Dance Collective

Presented by Springboard's Fluid Fest 2024:

Wonderstruck:

Belle Spirale (Vancouver)

Good Women Dance Collective (Edmonton)

cSPACE Marda Loop | 1721 29th Avenue SW

November 1 & 2, 2024 | 7 PM

Tickets: $30/$20

Belle Spirale (Vancouver)

light in the rafters is an immersive exploration of creation and connection. This innovative collaboration between dance, film, and visual art blurs boundaries to reflect the dynamic interplay between body and image. With evocative lighting, atmospheric stage design, and improvisation at its core, the piece invites deep contemplation and emotion. 

Belle Spirale Dance Projects is an arts organization led by Artistic Directors Alexis Fletcher and Sylvain Senez, based in Vancouver. Both are former principal artists/rehearsal directors at Ballet BC. 

Belle Spirale is a platform for many artists. The team produces its own creations, and commissions original works, believing in a hands-on and heart-centred approach to art making. Through the cross-disciplinary nature of their pieces, Belle Spirale creates poetic, relevant, and visually compelling performances, believing dance to be a distinct and powerful tool for connection, communication, and togetherness. 

Fletcher and Senez currently hold the position of Artists in Residence at Chutzpah! Festival, and their work has been generously supported by Dance Victoria, Ballet BC, Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council, Presentation House Theatre, New Works, Vernon Performing Arts Centre, Dancing on the Edge, Dance: Made in/fait au Canada, among others. 

Senez is a 2024 DORA Award nominee for Outstanding Scenic Design in Dance.
Belle Spirale is a 2023/24 recipient of the prestigious Chrystal Dance Prize.

www.bellespirale.ca

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Good Women Dance Collective (Edmonton)

You may not be able to tell exactly what it is…something is emerging. 

there we are. There. is a premier duet created by Alison Kause and Alida Kendell. Absurdity and intimacy are explored as the two inhabit their world in ways that are recognizable yet slightly off kilter. They talk straight and sit crooked. They are in between, unraveling, navigating and arriving. 

Alida Kendell is a contemporary dance choreographer, performer, instructor and mother in amiskwacîwâskahikan, Edmonton. She has trained in both ballet and contemporary dance, completing her BA at the School of Contemporary Dancers in Winnipeg, MB. Her artistry is fed by her work as a collective artist with the Good Women Dance Collective (GWDC), her independent projects, and caregiving. Career highlights so far include performing in the Sterling award-winning productions BEARS (Pyretic Productions) and The Cardiac Shadow (Northern Light Theatre and GWDC), which she co-choreographed. 

Alida has choreographed numerous dance works for GDWC including Love Fail, a full length collaboration with Pro Coro Canada, Withheld, which was supported by Mile Zero Dance through their Artist in Residence Program and was presented at Fluid Festival in Calgary, and there we are. There, a duet choreographed and performed by Alida and Alison Kause. Alida’s choreographic works outside of GWDC have included Blood of Our Soil (Pyretic Productions) and The Particulars, a movement-based play produced by Punctuate! Theatre which premiered at the Theatre Centre in Toronto. 

Recently Alida has returned to a solo practice that investigates durational improvisation as an escape from and return to self. Her recent participation in the Hack Lab (Theatre Direct) has inspired her to work in ways that incorporate the experience of motherhood rather than working in spite of it. 

Alison Kause is a founding member of the Good Women Dance Collective and a teacher in Dance Education with Edmonton Public Schools. She is a graduate of the Grant MacEwan Dance Program and the School of Contemporary Dance at SFU, as well as the Education program at the University of Alberta. She has trained and performed across Canada and been inspired by work with local and international colleagues. She has worked with Justine

Chambers, Melanie Kloetzel, Peggy Baker, Shasha Ivanochko, Melanie Demers, Mile Zero Dance, Heidi Bunting, Brian Webb, Jen Mesch Dance Conspiracy, AM Choreography, Krista Posyniak, Richard Lee, Isabelle Rousseau, Katherine Semchuk, Jessica McMann, Marynia Fecekz and GWD Collective artists. Alison has performed in Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary, Vancouver and Edmonton. Alison is inspired by the challenge of finding an intersection between being an artist, mother and teacher - these roles constantly demand attention, inform one another and provide diverse perspectives. 

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