Dance West Network introduces new program PIVOT: Digital Collaborations
The program is rooted in developing practices that encourage new digital works by dance artists of colour
Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde, in collaboration with Hiit’aGan.iina Kuuyas Naay – Skidegate Youth Centre, created a digital work called We are the Land & the Land is Us. .Photo by Cameron Watts
Dance West Network introduces PIVOT: Digital Collaborations, a new program for three selected artists: Simran Sachar, Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde, and Shion Skye Carter.
Funded by BC Arts Council Project Assistance: PIVOT: Digital Collaborations develops practices that encourage new digital works created by dance artists of colour. Recognizing that dance artists do not often receive sufficient media or digital support to shift their work from live performance to the digital realm, this project seeks to help artists of colour in their efforts to discover new approaches that engage digitally with more B.C. residents.
PIVOT: Digital Collaborations also offers the public the opportunity to further witness, connect with, and participate in these artists’ creative endeavours
Unique to this digital collaboration is the connection with three local communities throughout B.C., making the work at once highly local—each piece is made specifically from and for that community and that land—and also highly mobile in its virtual form.
Simran Sachar collaborated with Arts Revelstoke in the making of BETA बेटा for the LUNA Festival. Photo by Buchanan
Simran Sachar collaborated with Arts Revelstoke in the making of BETA बेटा, a 3D volumetric dance film, that was shared with an outdoor live audience during the LUNA Festival on September 25, 2021 on Secwepemc (Secwepemcul’ewc), Ktunaxa, Sinixt Territory/Revelstoke.
Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde, in collaboration with Hiit’aGan.iina Kuuyas Naay – Skidegate Youth Centre, offered three days of experiential community-based theatre workshops with seven members of the Haida Gwaii First Nation in August 2021 on the land and waters of their territory, culminating in the creation of a digital work called We are the Land & the Land is Us.
Shion Skye Carter was in residence at the Leña Artist Research and Residency Centre to research and begin the creation of a short dance film focused around ideas of the body in physical relationship with the historic Japanese charcoal kilns located on the traditional territories of Lamalcha, Penelakut, and Huitson First Nations/Galiano Island.
For more information, see PIVOT: Digital Collaborations.
Shion Skye Carter was in residence at the Leña Artist Research and Residency Centre to research and begin the creation of a short dance film. Photo by Dayna Szyndrowski
Post sponsored by Dance West Network