Credit: Paper Mountains by Anya Saugstad    

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Professional experience:

2018 - present
Action at a Distance (Vanessa Goodman), Anya Allegra Saugstad, Cindy Mochizuki, Company 605, Odd Meridian Arts (Ziyian Kwan), plastic orchid factory, Venus Art Gallery, Wen Wei Dance

Festivals and platforms:

CanAsian Dance KickStart Festival, CAPSULE by the National Arts Centre (Ottawa/online), City of Vancouver Public Art Program, Dance Victoria, Dancing on the Edge Festival (Vancouver), Dance in Vancouver, Estrogenius Festival (NYC), Expanse Festival (Edmonton), Festival of New Dance (St. John’s), F-O-R-M Film Festival, Kinetic Studio (Halifax), LEÑA Artist Residency & Research Centre (Galiano Island), Left of PuSh (Vancouver), Live Art Dance (Halifax), Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre (Burnaby), OUTstages Queer Arts Festival (Victoria), Powell Street Festival (Vancouver), PuSh Performing Arts Festival, Prismatic Arts Festival (Halifax), Richmond Art Gallery (Richmond), Springboard Performance (Calgary), Tangente (Montreal), TO Live/Greenwin Theatre (Toronto), Vines Art Festival (Vancouver), What Lab Artist Residency (Vancouver)

Training/repertoire experience

b12 Berlin Workshop Festival (Bret Easterling performance project, Marion Sparber physical theatre), Amsterdam Intensive (Akram Khan, Hofesh Shechter, Gaga), Yossi Berg & Oded Graf, KT Niehoff, Rob Kitsos

Choreographic commissions

Irina Lord (film), Old Man Canyon (music video), Simon Fraser University, Urban Ink

Teaching

Original “Movement + Calligraphy Workshop” facilitated in Vancouver and Victoria BC, upcoming in 2024 in Galiano Island BC, Edmonton AB, Halifax NS, and St. John’s NL

Dance technique classes and workshops: Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Bonsor Community Centre, Edmonds Community Centre, Simon Fraser University (website-building workshops), Training Society of Vancouver ‘Working Class’, AMOK Summer Lab, Kinetic Studio contemporary dance workshops (Halifax)

Please contact for a full CV.

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commercial work + photoshoots