Kaylin Metchie

You Have Forgotten More Than You Remember

You Have Forgotten More Than You Remember

Mr. Snortoose and the Machine-Children’s Machine review

Words by Kaylin Metchie Photos by Dan Borzillo An open, empty space filled with soulless sound. The ebb and flow of tones wash over your ears. You feel like you’re here, in the present, but at the same time lost in a different plane, a different dimension. Expectation is invoked. Desire builds, but will it […]

 Kaylin Metchie

Dance Yourself Away

Dance Yourself Away

EPIC presented by SFU dance undergrads

Words by Kaylin Metchie Edited by Elysse Cheadle EPIC – SFU Student Dance Show The cavernous Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre at SFU is a formidable arena. Its expanse highlights your smallness, while its dark walls envelope you like a hug from a long lost loved one. Tonight, the space is warm, buzzing with […]

 Mark Jacobs

Ben Brown: Improvising His Way to Clarity

Ben Brown: Improvising His Way to Clarity

Interview by Mark Jacobs Photos by Harley Spade Vancouver-based drummer and composer Ben Brown has enjoyed an impressive career as an in-demand session musician and as the driving beat behind Pugs and Crows, with whom he won the 2010 Galaxie Rising Star Award for Best New Group and the 2013 JUNO Award for Instrumental Album […]

 Mark Jacobs

SPATIAL POETICS XIII: WeMix

SPATIAL POETICS XIII: WeMix

Vancouver’s thirteen-year tradition of artistic mash-up plays to a packed house at The Western Front.

This marks the 13th consecutive year of Spatial Poetics, a celebration of cross-disciplinary artistic collaboration that heralds the beginning of the annual Powell Street Festival. For more than a decade, this event has mashed-up local artists of diverse interests, approaches, and specializations to create new works based on the adventure inherent in the seemingly happenstance […]

 Sheng Ho

Sweet Heart: The way that love transforms us

Sweet Heart: The way that love transforms us

Featuring Dancer/Choreographer Areli Moran and Multi-Instrumentalist Ben Brown, Sweet Heart fuses live music and movement

Photos – Sheng Ho Text – sweetheartpage.wordpress.com Sweet Heart is a piece about the ways that love transforms us. Featuring Dancer/Choreographer Areli Moran and Multi-Instrumentalist Ben Brown, Sweet Heart fuses live music and movement. Moran and Brown create a raw chemistry evoking Moran’s most intimate experiences with past lovers. There is an immediate rapport felt through the […]

 Justin Ramsey

Feeling Visions: Choreographer Julianne Chapple Talks LAUNCH Festival

Feeling Visions: Choreographer Julianne Chapple Talks LAUNCH Festival

Written by Justin Ramsey Edited by Kaylin Metchie Photos by Ash Tanasiychuk I am sitting in Kafka’s, a charming café in Vancouver’s fashionable Mount Pleasant neighbourhood, enjoying a fabulously foamy London fog. The white walls are decorated with art, and the large front windows fill the spacious room with a pale, natural light. At 9:53, […]

 Ash Tanasiychuk

Don’t Stop Playing: Preview of a Brief Encounters Pairing

Don’t Stop Playing: Preview of a Brief Encounters Pairing

The first ever collaboration between Karen Jamieson, contemporary dancer, and Nathaniel Justiniano, bouffon

Photos and words by Ash Tanasiychuk What’s the expression? “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing” (thanks George Bernard Shaw, that’s a good one). Sunshine and laughter. Claps of hands and stomps of feet. Smiles of play and bulges of… ogre lumps?! The Dance Centre, Davie St, […]

 Hailey McCloskey

Powell Street Festival

Powell Street Festival

The largest Japanese Canadian festival in the country celebrates 37 years through a variety of food, dance, performance, and ceremony

Written by Hailey McCloskey Tomomi Morimoto dances with ghost stories of Japanese lore. Performing at the Firehall Arts Centre, she begins with her back facing the audience. Some of the audience is privy to the sight of a mirrored mask she holds still by the clasp of her jaw. As she moves in fractions, we […]

 Shalon WH

Music and Movement Mondays

Music and Movement Mondays

A weekly collaboration of always changing dancers, musicians and locations, Ben Brown's experiment in cross-discipline dialogue is the stepping stone for Shapes In Sound

Written by Shalon W-H and Ash Tanasiychuk Photos by Ash Tanasiychuk and Yvonne Chew A unique series of evening events featuring a variety of multidisciplinary arts – Extravagant Signals – is about to launch into its inaugural year (June 15-22 2013). To prepare, Vandocument’s Shalon and Ash got a sneak preview of the improv music […]

 Ash Tanasiychuk

Luciana D’Anunciação’s Echoes a Textural Body of Movement

Luciana D’Anunciação’s Echoes a Textural Body of Movement

At the SFU MFA Spring Exhibition, D'Anunciação's slow reveal of body is a teasingly visual masterpiece

In late March 2013, the Audain Gallery hosted the Spring Exhibition of the current Master of Fine Art students from Simon Fraser University. Titled Syllogisms, there was a wide range of work to take in: a gallery full of paintings, sculpture, projection, and video. I was asked by dancer Luciana D’Anunciação to photograph her performance, […]