A double bill of choreography by Emmalena Fredriksson.
Premiered at the School for the Contemporary Arts, co-presented by Dancing on the Edge Festival and SFU Woodwards in June 2023.
Set and Costumes: Alaia Hamer
Performers (pictured): Emmalena Fredriksson, Hayley Gawthrop, and Jessica Keeling
Music for Soft Palate: © Linda Fox
Photo Credit: Carla Alćantara
Ecdysis is a new work of choreography created and performed by Emmalena Fredriksson. Site specific production at 1422 Progress Lab in October 2022, presented in partnership with Tara Cheyenne Performances and New Works.
Image credits: (Photos 1 - 3) Luciana Freire D’Anunciacao, (Video stills 4 & 5) Lukas Hyrman & Dan O-Shea, (video still 5) Lukas Hyrman
Creative Team: Emmalena Fredriksson (choreography), Alaia Hamer (Costume design, scenography), Bob Pritchard and Daniel Tsuii (Spine technology), music (Filip Gorecki), Hayley Gawthrop (rehearsal director).
https://www.emmalenafredriksson.com/ecdysis
(Lighting Design)
Written and created by Leah Abramson, co-presented by Music on Main and SFU School for the Contemporary Arts, directed by Megan Stewart and produced by Leah Abramson, Megan Stewart, and Joanna Dundas. “Songs For a Lost Pod began as singer-songwriter/composer Leah Abramson’s fourth album of original songs, combining scientific research, orca vocalizations turned into beats, and marine mammal history.”
https://www.leahabramson.com/songs-for-a-lost-pod/
Pictured: Barbara Adler (narrator), Meredith Bates (violin), Mark Beaty (cello/bass), Cole Schmidt (guitar), Morgan McDonald (keyboards), and Kyle Cashen (drums/percussion/samples). Choir: Emily M Cheung, Hilary Ison, Emma Postl, Alex Scott, Emily Millard, and Shannon Scott
Visuals: Mind of a Snail
Photo Credit: Jan Gates
Video Creidt: Filmed by Collide Entertainment
(Lighting design)
"A mountain of wool turns into a cloud. A stream of thread becomes a song and slowly leaks out of a bucket. Morning rises on a curtain, pushes our gaze to the end of the world, until the sun finally sets on our laps.
Taking inspiration from Norse folktale East of the Sun and West of the Moon, a team of performers animate the stage using movement, words, and piles of fleece. The encounter between traditional folk art and live performance, written story and oral telling – feminine and masculine, animal and human, merge in this sensory trip to the edge."
Created & directed by Robin Leveroos
Pictured: Elysse Cheadle, Gordon Havelaar, Linnea Gwiazda, Pascal Reiners, Elliot Vaughan
Photos by Lukas Englehardt
(Lighting Design)
The Piano Teacher is a Governor General's Award winning play written by Dorothy Dittrich. It premiered in 2017 on the Newmont Stage at the BMO Theatre Centre in Vancouver. Produced by the Arts Club Theatre Company.
Photo credit: David Cooper Photography
Pictured: Megan Leitch (Erin), Caitriona Murphy (Elaine), and Kamyar Pazandeh (Tom)
Creative team: Yvette Nolan (Director) Scott Bellis (Tour Co-director), Rachel Ditor (Tour Co-director & Dramaturg), Sandra Drag (Stage Manager), Patrick Pennefather (Sound Designer), David Roberts (Set Designer), Jenifer Darbellay (Costume Designer).
(Lighting Design)
“Commissioned by Luminato, and the result of a years-long collaboration and deep friendship between playwright/actor Niall McNeil, Neworld’s Artistic Director Marcus Youssef, theatre practitioner James Long (also Artistic Director of Theatre Replacement), and composer Veda Hille, King Arthur’s Night is epic in scale and radically inclusive. “ (Neworld website)
https://neworldtheatre.com/projects/king-arthurs-night/
Photo credit: Tim Matheson (photos 1, 4-8), Andrew Alexander (photos 2 & 3)
Creative Team: Written by Niall McNeil and Marcus Youssef, Original Music Composed by Veda Hille, Directed by James Long, Produced by Neworld Theatre, Choreographer Josh Martin, Costume Designer Christine Reimer, Set & Prop Designer Shizuka Kai, Lighting Designer Kyla Gardiner, Sound Designer Nancy Tam, Video Designer Parjad Sharifi
Performers (some pictured): Performers Amber Funk-Barton, Andrew Gordon, Nathan Kay, Tiffany King, Nicola Lipman (2017), Anton Lipovetsky (2017), Billy Marchenski, Niall McNeil, Lucy McNulty (2017/18), Kerry Sandomirsky (2018/19), Matthew Tom-Wing, Sophia Wolfe (2019), Marcus Youssef
Musicians (some pictured): Veda Hille, Christine Fellows (2017), Barry Mirochnick (2017, 2019), Skye Brooks (2018)
(Lighting Design)
Anthropocene was a devised theatre work led and directed by Ker Wells and performed by students at the School for Contemporary Arts, SFU in March of 2016. I worked closely with Robert Leveroos who designed the intricate and beautiful scenography for the piece.
Photo Credit: Lukas Engelhardt
Pictured: Marina Buston, Tess Conrad, Jessica Del Fierro, Andrew Ferguson, Sarah Ferguson, Erica Ford, Katie Gartlan-Close, Dominique Hat, Katrina Robinson, Beth Saul, Emilyn Sim, Madisen Steele, Kaitlin Stoneman, Meghan Trevor, and Dominique Wakeland,.
(Lighting Design)
Stroking The Unknown Dog is work choreographed by Emmalena Fredriksson. This version was performed in May 2013 at Studio T Goldcorp Centre for the Arts.
Photo Credit: Adam Campkin
Pictured: Alex Mah, Alexa Mardon, Ashley Whitehead, Layla Marcelle Mrozowski, Maria Houar and Marc Arboleda.
(Lighting Design)
Safe/Guard is a performance work created and performed by Robin Leveroos. Pictured here at the Gam Gallery in Vancouver in 2011.
Photo Credit: Chris Randle
(Lighting Design)
Together()Apart is a performance experience for an audience of one created by Isabelle Kirouac. Each performer had a 5-10 minute piece that repeated for three hours. The lighting cohered the intricate timings within the work.
Photo Credit:
Pictured: Ashley Whitehead, Emma Garod, Emmalena Fredriksson, Hailey McCloskey, Kat Single-Dain, Michael Udem, and Willoughby Arevalo.
(Lighting Design)
The Games We Play was choreographed by Emmalena Fredriksson and performed by the School for the Contemporary Arts (SFU) repertory class in March 2015 in the Fei & Milton Wong Experimental Theatre (Goldcorp Centre for the Arts).
Photo Credit: Jonothan Kim
(Lighting Design)
Thank You, You're Not Welcome is an original work created and performed by Noam Gagnon (Vision Impure). The images were taken at The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts during the 2011 Production.
Photo Credit: Chris Randle
(Lighting Design)
Lowest Common Denominator is a new work by Canadian playwright Dave Deveau, it was directed by Cameron Mackenzie for Zee Zee Theatre at the PAL stage in Vancouver in 2014.
Photo Credit: Moon Rider Productions
Pictured: Deborah Williams, Shawn Macdonald & Dallas Sauer
(Lighting)
5@50 was co-produced by Zee Zee Theatre and Ruby Slippers Theatre
at PAL Studio Theatre in May 2016, and directed by Cameron Mackenzie.
Photos Courtesy of Zee Zee Theatre
Photo Credit: Tina Krueger Kulic
Pictured: Diane Brown, Veena Sood, Deborah Williams, Donna Yamamoto & Beatrice Zeillinger
(Lighting Design)
The classic Tennessee Williams play The Glass Menagerie as performed by Fire Escape Equity Co-op, directed by Shawn Macdonald at the Jericho Arts Centre in 2014.
Photo Credit: Mark Halliday
Pictured: Marylin Noory, Scott Button, Christine Quintana and Graeme McComb.
