Native Intelligence/Innate Intelligence

Bear witness to stories from varied identities, weaved together in celebration of difference and unique individuality.

Radio III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ

Different histories, artistic/cultural educations, and experiences fuse together to create a new form of dance that you don’t want to miss!

RADIO III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ is an indigenous futuristic concert, a beautiful and uncomfortable dance performance and a perverse triangle of shifting power that seeks to be unfaithful to both minimalism and postmodern dance’s claims to so-called “neutrality”. In this work, we seek to live, layer and situate form in our bodies, as these evoke past, present and future possibilities.

CORE/US

Vanessa Goodman (Vancouver) considers the embodiment of sound and how to generate artistic material in real-time that creates a direct correlation between movement and sound. Core/Us is a captivating new group work from Action at a Distance. Choreographed by artistic director Vanessa Goodman, four dancers expertly transverse our perception of how we hear movement and see sound with mesmerizing results. The live score sculpts an ever-evolving atmosphere that builds gravity for the body.

Skeleton Flower

Skeleton Flower is a performance of live music, visceral movement theater and dance, projected cinematic imagery and storytelling ritual. It is a semi-autobiographical exploration of Haruko Crow Nishimura’s (DAE’s director) struggle with identity, depression, childhood trauma, and the awakening of personal power. The piece deals with these issues with humor and imagination, casting her family as monsters from a Godzilla movie, and traces her personal struggle through three fairy tales which were read to her by her mother growing up (

CUTLASS SPRING

Inching towards decensorship, engaging the infinite potential of everyday objects, CUTLASS SPRING is, at once, a manifesto and a heated reflection, an ethnography of sexual understanding and an archaeology of desire.

The Forever Project

Piacenza’s 30-year professional performance career and her history as a sex worker become an embodied tapestry of artistic material, a thematic entanglement of sex labor, the pursuit of freedom, and ageism.

The Other Shore: Always Now

Always Now is one of two complementary works within zoe | juniper’s performance, The Other Shore. In Always Now, the audience is guided through different spaces and positions to witness the performances, including lying comfortably on the floor, while multiple dancers move around and above them. With an exciting cast of 5 local and international dancers, Always Now explores perspective, lived experience, and body language as the audience is invited to experience the piece from very different viewpoints.

NOTHINGBEING

NOTHINGBEING is a project initiated by choreographer Takahiro Yamamoto, and developed in collaboration with Samita Sinha, David Thomson, and Anna Martine Whitehead. This work investigates ways to embody the presence of nothingness and "being," breathing spaces that we could easily dismiss and consider possibilities for the unfiltered self.

STAR POWER HOUR: The Cast of The Shipment

Artistic Director Rachel Cook sits down with the creative collaborators of "THE SHIPMENT" to talk about what went into the piece.

Watch "THE SHIPMENT" on ontheboards.tv!

This segment aired during the 2021 ontheboads.tv fundraiser in March 2021.

STAR POWER HOUR: Rachel Mars, Michelle Ellsworth, and Jenny Peterson

Artistic Director Rachel Cook sits down with artists Rachel Mars, Michelle Ellsworth, and Jenny Peterson to talk about their favorite performance objects, previous pieces—and to briefly introduce their pets to the world.

Watch Michelle Ellsworth's "Phone Homer" on ontheboards.tv!

This segment aired during the 2021 ontheboads.tv fundraiser in March 2021.