SCA | Quick News | May 21, 2021
Read Calderon – and then Mask It!
Read an essay from SCA alumni Davey Samuel Calderon (Playwrights Theatre Centre's Dramaturg, Public Engagement) about "The Dramaturgy of Online Security." Read it HERE. Also, Calderon is running "Mask It!" for the next New(to)Town Collective "Training Jam" on Sunday, May 23, 2021, from 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM. Register HERE.
Bergonzoni's Ho.Me
SCA alumni Carolina Bergonzoni is presenting a FREE screening of Ho.Me (audio-described version) on Thursday, May 27, 2021, presented by Collingwood Neighbourhood House in partnership with the All Bodies Dance Project. More info and RSVP HERE.
Dai in Collider
Rush for the last remaining tickets for Collider (running May 28 @ 6:00 PM, May 30 @ 2:00 PM, June 3 @ 5:00 PM, and June 5 @ 2:00 PM), presented by Upintheair Theatre and Single Thread Theatre Co., and immerse yourself in SCA alumni Howard Dai and the rest of the Collider team's work. More HERE.
Do the convocation slide
Attention all SCA folks graduating at the June 29 convocation: the deadline to submit your personalized "convocation slide" is Wednesday, May 26, at 11:45 PM (PST). And they say "late submissions will not be accepted." Get in there and get it personalized. More HERE.
Basanta in ÉCRAN TOTAL
SCA alumni Adam Basanta is part of the exhibition ÉCRAN TOTAL at Montréal's Centre de design de l'UQAM, which runs May 19 - June 17, 2021. More HERE.
Cheyenne reviewed and Startle Reflex
SCA alumni Tara Cheyenne's Body Parts reviewed by Stir Vancouver. Read it HERE. Also, the application deadline for Startle Reflex, a residency program with Tara Cheyenne's company for female-identifying and non-binary artists, is May 27, 2021. More HERE.
CAMP previewed
Nice coverage in Stir Vancouver for CAMP dance collective, which includes SCA alumni Eowynn Enquist and Stefan Nazarevich. Read it HERE.
Lin and Cassady in Nextfest
SCA alumni Shannon Lin will be presenting And Along Came Tomorrow, a dance film she produced, choreographed, and performed (with direction by Valentine "Tino" Dumec), and Katie Cassady will be presenting "II," which she choreographed for dancers Sarah Wong and Sophie Mueller-Langer and featuring music by SCA alumni Stefan Nazarevich, as part of The Nextfest Arts Company's 2021 Nextfest Festival (June 3 – 13, 2021), curated by Good Women Dance Collective. Full info and schedule HERE.
STOP ASIAN HATE!!!!
Full support! Great to see many SCA alumni names and faces as part the Boca del Lupo initiated STOP ASIAN HATE project, as well as many folks who've taught with us. If you're an "Asian performing artist, leader, practitioner, or administrator," sign up, too. Find out more about this project HERE.
SCA Leo nominations
SCA alumni LS Todd's Monkey Beach was nominated for nine Leo Awards, which recognize excellence in the British Columbia film and television industry, and SCA alumni Gloria Mercer's Hekademia was nominated for two (also, Hekademia will be streaming "Canada-wide" as part of the Oakville Festivals of Film & Art, from June 23 – 29, 2021). See the whole list of Leo nominees HERE.
New gigs for Aoki and Valentine-Lewis
Congratulations to SCA alumni Jennifer Aoki for her new position as Artistic Co-Director at Voirelia: A Dance, Psychology, and Philosophy Hub, and congratulations to SCA alumni Andrea Valentine-Lewis for her new position as Gallery Coordinator at the Burrard Arts Foundation. Also, read Valentine-Lewis in ReIssue on the New Westminster New Media Gallery's exhibition MirNs, which runs to August 1, 2021. Read it HERE.
Ybarra, van Wyk, and Kotowich are mentors
SCA MFA student Faune Ybarra, SCA alumni Eddy van Wyk and Jeanette Kotowich, and Erica Hiroko are all Emerging Creatives Mentors for the Vines Art Festival. The application deadline for this mentorship program is May 26, 2021. Find out more HERE.
Cuykendall's Floating Departures
Watch a trailer for School of Interactive Arts + Technology PhD Candidate and frequent SCA dance instructor Shannon Cuykendall's new dance film Floating Departures. Watch it HERE.
Smith's Images that Take, Images that Give
Check out SCA student and SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement's Communications Coordinator Paige Smith's webpage dedicated to the SCA exhibition Images that Take, Images that Give, which ran March 18 – 27, 2021, at SFU Galleries' Audain Gallery. See it HERE.
Watch Carter in Spells for Chinatown
Watch SCA alumni Shion Skye Carter and Marisa Gold, Justin Calvadores, and Sarah Wong dance in the Jo Hirabayashi produced video version of Dumb Instrument Dance's Spells for Chinatown, commissioned by and presented for Barking Sphinx Performance Society and Sawdust Collector's ongoing FieldTrips series. Watch it HERE.
Work with Sam
Go work with SCA alumni Sam Mason at The Cinematheque's Summer Film Camp. More HERE.
McMann at the Roundtable
SCA alumni Jessica McMann is part of the Roundtable on Indigenous Musical Sovereignty / Table ronde sur la souveraineté musicale autochtone on May 26, 2021, at 2:00 PM (EDT), presented by Orchestras Canada. RSVP HERE.
Peters and Guimond's Charégraphie
SCA alumni Deanna Peters (Mutable Subject) and collaborator Emma-Kate Guimond are presenting their work Charégraphie, "an in situ choreography performed with cars," at the FURIES est un festival de danse contemporaine, which runs July 29 to August 1, 2021. More HERE.
Yoon in ANTI-ASIAN RACISM UNDONE
The SCA's Jin-me Yoon will be participating in ANTI-ASIAN RACISM UNDONE, a FREE two day event streaming online on Saturday, May 29, from 12:30 PM – 5:30 PM and Sunday, May 30, from 12:00 PM to 6:30 PM. Find the full schedule and links HERE.
Jackson's speech
Watch SCA alumni Lisa Jackson's speech given for winning the DOC Ontario Vanguard Award, which is "given to an emerging or mid-career professional filmmaker, who demonstrates a keen artistic sensibility and forward-thinking approach to the craft, with the potential to lead the next generation of doc-makers." Watch it HERE.
Lamoureux and Saugstad in an Outdoor Dance Lab
SCA alumni Heather Lamoureux and Anya Saugstad are participating in an Outdoor Dance Lab, whcih is presented by New Works and Made in BC - Dance on Tour, on Tuesday, May 25, 2021, at 10:00 AM (PST). RSVP HERE.
Daniel discusses Old Stories & New Choreographies
The SCA's Henry Daniel was part of the panel discussion Old Stories & New Choreographies: Migration of Tales, People, & Dance on Thursday, May 20, 2021, presented by 1014 and MeenMoves. More HERE.
Spence's The Divine For Me Is Whatever Is Real
Sample The Divine For Me Is Whatever Is Real by SCA alumni Alexandra Spence & collaborator MP Hopkins on Greece's More Mars' Bandcamp page HERE.
K BODY AND MIND is returning
SCA alumni Conor Wylie / Wake of Vultures (Wylie with fellow SCA alumni Nancy Tam and Daniel O’Shea) and SCA folks heavy crew's K BODY AND MIND is returning via Kitchener-Waterloo's Open Ears Festival of Music & Sound, running from June 3-6, 2021. More HERE.
Sum and Vickers @ the Jazz Fest
Both SCA alumni Amanda Sum and her group and Assertion, featuring SCA alumni Charlene Vickers, are booked for the International Jazz Festival, presented by Coastal Jazz and Blues Society. Check out the full schedule HERE.
Lim in Elasticity
SCA alumni Milton Lim is one of the co-writers of ElastiCity: Performance Studies and Theme Parks for Performance Studies international's GPS 4.1 (“Elasticity”). Read it HERE.
Morelli's J'aime Hydro?
SCA alumni Didier Morelli's essay "J'aime Hydro?," which "looks at the myth of clean energy at Hydro-Quebec, greenwashing, decades of colonialism by the public utility, and Quebecois contemporary arts and funding," is included in Espace art actuel - pratiques et perspectives new issue on Climatology. More HERE.
Joey Chaos on CJLO
SCA (almost!) alumni Joseph Malbon (a.k.a. Joey Chaos of Joey Chaos and The Ghosts) gets interviewed by Grade A Explosives on CJLO radio out of Concordia University. Listen HERE.