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  Sarah “Tangent” Lee

  

  Sarah “Tangent” Lee

  Dancer and designer Tangent has been performing and teaching dance since the nineties. She got hooked on the underground sounds of house and breaks in the first wave of rave culture and never looked back. As a founding member of the all-woman B-Girl Crew DECYPHER CRU (2000 - 2010), co-director of the house dance collective Capital Sessions (2008 - present) and resident instructor at the Flava Factory Dance Studio (2011 - 2023), she has been choreographing, performing, organizing events, teaching and studying dance for more than 20 years.

  She has studied from dance masters and pioneers in NYC, Paris, London and Tokyo such as Ken Swift, Ynot, Whichway Shannon, Tone McGregor, Ejoe Wilson, Caleaf Sellers, Bravo, Archie Burnett, Marjory Smarth, Brian “Footwork” Green, Buddha Stretch, Sekou Heru, Dazl, Yugson, Mamson, as well as Mr. Wiggles, Tyrone Proctor, Jazzy Jay, Poppin Pete, Benny, Future and Aus Ninja, and Melissa Aguirre.

  She has been actively involved in building up her urban arts community with her work with House of PainT Urban Arts Festival, Capital Sessions at the NAC and Flava Factory Dance Studio.

  Throughout the years, she has received numerous grants from Canada Council and Ontario Arts Council to support her creative, performative and teaching work.

  She has been involved as artistic director, choreographer and dancer in several video projects, including for the Juno Award nominated musical group Silla + Rise, Rise Records, Canada Council Digital Initiatives and for the NAC Canada Performs, Revive and Dancing for Joy projects.

  Having a trained visual eye and a meticulous attention to detail, her approach to dance is conceptual and she bears the name Tangent well, constantly surprising audiences and drawing on art-forms such as Martial Arts, Parkour and Yoga to inform her art.

  La danseuse et designer Tangent se produit et enseigne la danse depuis les années 90. Elle est devenue accro aux sons marginaux de la musique house lors de la première vague de la culture rave et l’est autant à ce jour. En tant que membre fondatrice de la troupe de B-Girls DECYPHER CRU (2000 - 2010), codirectrice du collectif de danse house Capital Sessions (2008 - aujourd’hui) et instructrice en residence au Flava Factory Dance Studio (2011 - aujourd’hui), elle chorégraphie, offre des prestations, organise des événements, enseigne et étudie la danse depuis 20 ans.   Elle a étudié auprès de maîtres et de pionniers de la danse à New York, Paris, Londres et Tokyo, tels que Ken Swift, Ynot, Whichway Shannon, Tone McGregor, Ejoe Wilson, Caleaf Sellers, Bravo, Archie Burnett, Marjory Smarth, Brian « Footwork » Green, Buddha Stretch, Sekou Heru, Dazl, Yugson, Mamson, ainsi que Mr. Wiggles, Tyrone Proctor, Jazzy Jay, Poppin Pete, Benny, Future et Aus Ninja, et Melissa Aguirre.    Elle a participé activement au développement de sa communauté artistique urbaine grâce à son travail avec House of PainT Urban Arts Festival, Capital Sessions et Flava Factory Dance Studio.   Dotée d’un œil visuel exercé et d’une attention méticuleuse aux détails, Tangent préconise une approche conceptuelle de la danse et porte bien son nom, surprenant constamment le public en s’inspirant de formes d’art telles que les arts martiaux, le parkour et le yoga pour nourrir son art.

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  étudiant en musique/étudiant en mouvement Rise Ashen

  

  étudiant en musique/étudiant en mouvement

  Rise Ashen

  Rise Ashen has devoted his life to the study of sound and movement. From his early years as a B-Boy in Montreal in the 80s to his studies at Fanshawe College (North America's Oldest Recording School) and the Banff Centre for the Arts, to his evolution as a Global Grooves and House Music DJ, his focus has been on applying hi-fi knowhow to underground music. His record collection spans the 4 corners of the world with house and club music of all tempos as his primary focus. As a DJ and live looper/finger drummer, he blends it all in a worldy mash and is always the sweaty and dynamic life of the party. 

  He has performed in clubs and festivals in the US, Canada, Scandinavia, Europe and Asia and his music regularly gets support from A-list DJs worldwide. His study of Yoga has led him to combine his musical journey with his Yoga journey and he has been DJing extensively for yoga classes, festivals and events since 2012. A long-time househead who has trained with many pioneering NYC dancers, since 2008 he has also been co-leading Capital Sessions Community House Dance Practices with his partner Tangent and teaching at Ottawa’s Flava Factory Urban Dance school.

  He has collaborated with countless artists including Montreal's Miguel Graca (Juno Award winner), Jojo Flores, Fred Everything, Toronto-based Ammoye (multi-Juno nominee), Dubmatix (Juno Award winner), Version XCursion, LAL, Eccodek (Juno Award winner), Kobotown (Juno Award winner), King Sunshine, UK’s Sean Escofferey, Berlin’s Steph Lefrancois, New York’s Angel Moraes and Nickodemus, Kasm and Seed Organisation, Ottawa’s Bhavantu Collective, Ottawa’s Juno-award winner Kellylee Evans, and Algonquin Singer Flying Down Thunder, with whom he received a Juno nomination in 2012 for their debut album, One Nation, as well as a Native American Music Awards nomination in 2014 for their sophomore album, North Wind. He made 3 records with Silla, an Inuit throat-singing duet. They performed and toured for 6 years as Silla and Rise with Rise playing electronic percussion. They were nominated for a Juno Award for Best Indigenous Recording, a Juno for World Music Album of the Year, and they won the Mundial Stingray Award in 2018 as well as the SSIMAs for best Inuit ensemble and Best Artistic music video in 2021.

  He is currently working on music with Trevor “lifeboogie” Walker, with Cree/Potawatomi singer Theland Kicknosway, and Ottawa singer Kellylee Evans.

  He believes music and dance are essential to human culture and he aspires to embody the wise words of Fela Kuti: "when the higher forces give you the gift of musicianship …it must be well used for the good of humanity".

  Rise Ashen a consacré sa vie à l’étude du son et du mouvement. Depuis ses premières années en tant que B-Boy à Montréal dans les années 80 jusqu’à ses études au Collège Fanshawe (la plus ancienne école d’enregistrement d’Amérique du Nord) et au Centre des arts de Banff, il se concentre sur l’application du savoir-faire de la haute-fidélité à la musique de danse mondiale.

  Sa collection de disques couvre les quatre coins du monde et sa priorité est la musique de club de tous les tempos. En tant que DJ, il mélange tout dans un amalgame mondial et met toujours de la vie dans la fête. Il a joué dans des clubs et des festivals aux États-Unis, au Canada, en Europe et en Asie. Son étude du yoga l’a amené à combiner son parcours musical avec son parcours de Yogi et il a été DJ pour de nombreux cours de yoga, festivals et événements depuis 2012. Avec sa partenaire Tangent, il a fondé Capital Sessions Community House Dance Practices en 2010 pour partager l’amour du couple pour la musique et la culture house.

  Son premier album avec le chanteur algonquin Flying Down Thunder a reçu une nomination aux Juno en 2012, et le deuxième album du duo a été nommé aux Native American Music Awards en 2014. Depuis 2015, il collabore avec Silla, l’ensemble inuit de chant guttural basé au Nunavut, avec lequel il a été sélectionné pour la liste longue du prix Polaris en 2016, nommé pour un prix Juno en 2017 et en 2019, en plus de remporter le prix Stingray au Mundial en 2019 et le groupe inuit de l’année et la vidéo artistique de l’année aux SSIMAs en 2021. 

  Il croit que la musique et la danse sont essentielles à la culture humaine et qu’unis, les artistes peuvent mener l’humanité vers un mode de vie plus éclairé. Il aspire à incarner les sages paroles de Fela Kuti : « lorsque les forces supérieures vous donnent le don de la musique... il doit être utilisé pour le bien de l’humanité ».

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