≈ 70 minutes · No intermission
Last updated: November 17, 2021
I’m particularly thrilled to be welcoming Out Innerspace Dance Theatre for its NAC Dance debut with its latest creation Bygones, just back from an extremely successful European tour. Known to our audiences as exquisite performers with Crystal Pite’s Kidd Pivot, co-creators Tiffany Tregarthen and David Raymond weave a wondrous world of virtuosity and magic. Illusion, innovation, and imagery transform what we see and feel through this compelling, clever and haunting journey.
This season allows you to discover new names on the Canadian choreographic landscape as we experience the rich creativity these artists have to offer. Thank you for supporting NAC Dance.
Enjoy!
Vancouver-based Out Innerspace Dance Theatre (OIS) was founded by David Raymond and Tiffany Tregarthen on unceded Indigenous land of the Coast Salish peoples and has dedicated over 10 years to creating extraordinary dance experiences through uncompromising rigour and unreserved ingenuity.
OIS’s creations have toured nationally and internationally for eight years. Their works have been awarded The 2014 CanDance Creation Fund, The 2019 Crystal Dance Prize and Associate Artist of Agora de la Danse in Montreal for the next three years.
Entering their 17th year of collaboration, David and Tiffany are creating works for Ballet BC (Canada), Netherlands Dance Theatre 2, Hessisches Staats Ballett (Germany) and LUCODA Collective (Luxembourg). Bygones has been invited to Tanzmesse (Dusseldorf), Julidans (Amsterdam) Torino Danza, Theatre Freiburg, Cinars (Montreal), Milanoltre Festival (Milan), Canada’s National Arts Centre and venues in France, Hungary, South Korea and across Canada.
Their education program Modus Operandi offers relevant dance development and individualized mentorship generating some of Canada’s most radical and inspired young dance artists.
“The dancing is athletic, satisfying and accomplished. Tregarthen and Raymond’s vision is jaw-droppingly original…abstract, visceral and challenging. This is bold and exciting contemporary dance.”
Times Colonist
Created & Performed by David Raymond and Tiffany Tregarthen in collaboration with Elya Grant, David Harvey, and Lavinia Vago
Lighting Design: James Proudfoot
Video Light Design: Eric Chad
Sound Design: Kate De Lorme
Costume Design: Kate Burrows, vest by Hajnalka Mandula
Mixed Media Mask & Hands Design: Lyle Reimer (LyleXOX)
Stage Manager: Jessica (Ying-Jye) Han
Understudies: Aiden Cass, Zahra Ahmad Shahab, Jade Chong
Company General Manager: Martin Alldred for New Works
International Agent: Brent Belsher at Belsher Arts Management
OIS Board of Directors: Dylan Connelly, Marc-Andre Boyes-Manseau, Darcy McKitrick, Michael Musacchio, Tara Fanara Palko, Manoj Shankar
Music: Adam Asnan, Sanford Clark, Rural Colours, Lucrecia Dalt, JK FLESH, Leonor González, Blessed Initiative, Kaboom Karavan, Kid Koala, Kali Malone, Jake Meginsky, Andrew Pekkler, Thomas Stone, Warm Stranger, Eric Thielemans
Thank you to Kate Burrows, Eric Chad, Kate De Lorme, Elya Grant, Jessica Han, David Harvey, James Proudfoot, Lyle Reimer, Renée Sigouin and Lavinia Vago for their significant and phenomenal contributions to the content, creation and life of the work and this company. To our generous understudies Aiden Cass and Zahra Shahab and Jade Chong, Ellie Bishop and Talia Langtry. To Martin Alldred, Jonathan Kim, New Works, Kate Franklin and Brent Belsher for their integral roles in making this possible.
Thank you to Dance Victoria, Agora de la danse, La Rotonde, Théâtre Hector-Charland and The Dance Centre for such significant support and the continued investment in the company. To the Students of Modus Operandi for their participation in the research along with Eowynn Enquist, Isak Enquist, Oksana Augustine, James-Amzin Nahirnick and to RJR Creations, Hajnalka Mandula, Rob Kitsos, Wen Wei Dance, Lexi Vajda, Joshua Beamish and Kidd Pivot.
Out Innerspace is privileged to be dancing on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.
Out Innerspace gratefully acknowledges the generous support for the creation of Bygones:
Presenting/Producing partners Agora de la danse (Montreal, QC), La Rotonde (Quebec City, QC).
Dance Victoria Chrystal Dance Prize and Artists in Residence Program at the Dance Centre.
Creation and production residencies with The Dance Centre, Theatre Freiburg, Arts Umbrella Dance, ArtSpring, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Revelstoke Performing Arts Centre, The Yukon Arts Centre and Centennial Theatre.
The generous support of Canada Council for the Arts | Conseil des arts du Canada, The BC Arts Council and City of Vancouver
Out Innerspace is a Vancouver-based Contemporary Dance organization founded in 2007 by directors Tiffany Tregarthen and David Raymond. OIS has dedicated over 10 years to creating extraordinary and integral dance experiences through uncompromising rigour and unreserved ingenuity. Full-length works Me So You So Me (2012), Vessel (2010, 2013) and Major Motion Picture (2015) have enjoyed five National Tours and performances for 23 schools through ArtStarts. Major Motion Picture is the 2014 recipient of the CanDance Creation Fund commission. OIS was a featured company at the 2017 MilanOltre Festival in Italy and celebrated as “One of the most beautiful and interesting works of the entire festival.” (labottegadelbarbieri.org).
Their latest creation, Bygones is co-produced by L’Agora de la danse, La Rotonde and Dance Victoria and was awarded the 2019 Crystal Dance Prize and Dance Centre Artistic Residency. An initiative of Out Innerspace, Modus Operandi offers pivotal post-secondary contemporary dance education to young aspiring professionals and is grounds for some of Canada's most exciting new dance artists.
Born in Prince George, BC, Tiffany Tregarthen's early career began in New York and Seoul followed by 2 years in Antwerp training, performing and creating in Belgium, Italy and The Czech Republic. Alongside co-directing Out Innerspace and Modus Operandi, Tiffany has created a work for Les Grands Ballets Canadiens through their National Young Choreographer Competition, toured internationally with numerous companies including Wen Wei Dance, Justine Chambers, Company 605, Beijing Modern Dance Company and has been a member of Kidd Pivot since 2013.
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David and Tiffany’s studies and early careers lead them to New York, South Korea, Brazil, The Netherlands, The Czech Republic, and Italy. Their collaboration formed during a two-year residency in Antwerp, Belgium before returning to Vancouver, Canada to form Out Innerspace and its education program Modus Operandi. They have worked at institutions including London School of Contemporary Dance, Rotterdamse Danssacademie, Fontys Danssacademie, Hansung University and NYU. Their performance careers include dancing with Justine A. Chambers, Company 605, Wen Wei Dance, and Beijing Modern Dance Company. Additionally, they have both been significant contributors to Kidd Pivot, touring internationally for 8 years with award winning works The Tempest Replica, Polaris, Betroffenheit and Revisor. Together, they create, educate, perform, mentor, produce, and facilitate residencies for dance artists.
Born in Penticton, BC, David Raymond began as a tap dancer, later forming the hip hop collective Over the Influence. His early career has taken him to Brazil, Belgium, Italy, The Czech Republic, and The Netherlands before returning to Vancouver to co-create Out Innerspace. David is the 2010 Isadora performance award winner, creates video design for dance, has toured internationally with numerous Canadian companies and is currently performing with Kidd Pivot.
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David and Tiffany’s studies and early careers lead them to New York, South Korea, Brazil, The Netherlands, The Czech Republic, and Italy. Their collaboration formed during a two-year residency in Antwerp, Belgium before returning to Vancouver, Canada to form Out Innerspace and its education program Modus Operandi. They have worked at institutions including London School of Contemporary Dance, Rotterdamse Danssacademie, Fontys Danssacademie, Hansung University and NYU. Their performance careers include dancing with Justine A. Chambers, Company 605, Wen Wei Dance, and Beijing Modern Dance Company. Additionally, they have both been significant contributors to Kidd Pivot, touring internationally for 8 years with award winning works The Tempest Replica, Polaris, Betroffenheit and Revisor. Together, they create, educate, perform, mentor, produce, and facilitate residencies for dance artists.
Elya is a graduate of contemporary dance program Modus Operandi. She also attended Rubberbandance Group’s Domaine Forget, École de Danse Contemporaine de Montréal and the Eastman/Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Intensive in Antwerp. Elya has worked with artists and companies such as the response., Company 605, Heather Laura Gray and Karissa Barry. She interned with Out Innerspace from 2014-2016 and has been performing, touring and creating with the company since.
David Harvey is a Seattle based dance artist and educator. He studied at Interlochen Arts Academy, The Kirov Academy of Ballet and the Alonzo King Lines Ballet School. Harvey then danced for Alonzo King Lines Ballet from 2007-2014, and continues his relationship with AKLB School as a returning faculty member and choreographer. He has also worked with Bobbi Jene Smith, Tom Weinberger, Sarah Foster Sproull and has been a member and collaborator of Kate Wallich’s The YC since 2015. Harvey began dancing with Out Innerspace in 2017.
Lavinia Vago is an Italian dance artist, performer, educator, maker, collaborator, and director based in Seattle. She experiments and creates dance works as a solo artist. Her work researches and attacks themes of disobedience, kinesthetic empathy, queerness, altered states and transcendence inside experimental soundscapes. She performed, created works and toured with SBDNY, Loni Landon Projects, Vim Vigor (NYC), RUBBERBAND, Kate Wallich / The YC, Saint Genet, Tianzhuo Chen and most recently joined Out Innerspace. She is Artistic Programming Director and Lead Teacher of Dance Church®; teaches Dance for Parkinson’s, the Rubberband Method, and workshops aimed to subvert, queer and rethink dance spaces, contemporary technique, floor work, and improvisation.
Eric Chad is an lighting/projection artist and show control/integration specialist based in Vancouver, B.C. Eric’s work blends interactive elements, generative design, and live tracking into his love for natural forms. Eric’s recent credits include works with Emma Portner, Electric Company Theatre, Out Innerspace Dance Theatre, Crystal Pite, Action at a Distance, Joe Ink, Plastic Orchid Factory, Shay Kubler Radical System Art, Kidd Pivot, and Chuthis. Eric is one of the founding members, and the current Technical Director of Lobe Studio in Vancouver BC, the first permanent 4DSOUND venue in North America. Eric was also a primary designer on Sanctuary: The Dakota Bear Ancient Forest Experience, and The Canadian Pavilion at the Dubai Expo. Eric received his Master of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia, and a Bachelor of Science from McGill University.
Jessica Han is a stage manager, theatre technician, lighting designer and filmmaker based in Coast Salish Territories (also known as Vancouver, BC). You can find her touring with dance companies such as Co. Erasga, Company 605, Out Innerspace Dance Theatre and Raven Spirit Dance. She also works annually with Vancouver Folk Music Festival, Vancouver International Dance Festival, and Vancouver Queer Film Festival. Jessica is the 2018 recipient of the Larisa Fayad Memorial Award in Lighting Design and Technical Direction.
Kate is a Vancouver-based Sound Artist and Designer. She graduated from UBC in 2015 with a BFA in Theatre Design and Production and has a certification in Audio Engineering. Kate’s work integrates immersive spatial sound landscapes, technology and sound healing and her designs are inclusive of high caliber recording and editing, composition, programming, live mixing and interactivity. She is the Co-founder of Lobe Spatial Sound Studio.
Select design credits include: Major Motion Picture (Out Innerspace Dance Theatre); Epilogos, Telemetry, Feasting on Famine (Shay Kuebler Radical Systems Art); Salmon Girl (Raven Spirit Dance); Sta/g-mos (Kate De Lorme Design).
From Edinburgh, Scotland where he received his initial theatre training, James has been living in Vancouver since 1993. He has contributed lighting designs for dance works to many companies.
NAC Dance team
Cathy Levy, Executive Producer
Tina Legari, Associate Producer
Mireille Nicholas, Special Projects Coordinator and Assistant to the Executive Producer
Sophie Anka, Company Manager
Siôned Watkins, Education Associate and Teaching Artist
Brian Britton, Technical Director
Livia Belcea, Communications Strategist
Chatelaine Rindorindo, Marketing Strategist