Digital Access | REELING: Dance on Screen

Adam Bentley

Adam Bentley (he/him), the face of #yegfilm, is an Edmonton-based screenwriter, filmmaker, and founder of the International Festival of Winter Cinema. He produces video works on anxiety and distance in an era of climate breakdown and isolation, and collaborates with other artists to do the same. Adam has been awarded funding for multiple projects from the Edmonton Arts Council, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Calgary Arts Development, and Canada Council for the Arts. He also attended the highly prestigious Banff Centre writing retreat. His works have been screened at film festivals across Canada, the United States, and Europe. His work has also been featured on Air Canada and CBC Television. When not writing or filming, he can be found biking, summer or winter, in Edmonton’s river valley.

Audrey Boccara

Audrey Boccara is a professional dancer, choreographer, circus artist, instructor, and film director. After graduating with a Bachelor’s degree from the National Superior Conservatory of Paris for Music and Dance, she moved to Canada and worked with Ballet Edmonton, Atlantic Ballet, Ukrainian Shumka Dancers, and Alberta Ballet.
Her passion and creativity led her to dive into the circus world. She created and
performed various acts that combine circus and dance for companies including Cirque de La Nuit, Mile Zero Dance, The Little Red Ball Company, Fruit Loop, Cirque de la Lune, and SkirtsAFire.
Audrey has also been coaching both competitive and recreational children and adults for almost a decade. She values the importance of creating a safe and supportive environment where her students can develop their skills and reach their full potential as performers.
Her artistic vision has been showcased in her works as film director and choreographer for Alberta Ballet and the Ukrainian Shumka Dancers. With her keen eye for detail and a natural inclination for movement, Audrey has been bringing a unique perspective to dance filmmaking, capturing the beauty and grace of the dancers in a stunning visual
narrative. Her innovative approach to storytelling through movement has already garnered attention. With each project, Audrey continues to showcase her artistic vision in new and imaginative ways.

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erψn temp3st

erψn temp3st is a multimedia artist and performer of settler descent. They are interested in the body as a builder of worlds and use digital technologies to render those worlds visible. Their exploration across multiple disciplines aims to redefine body-based practices in terms of technological, sonic, and sculptural intervention. erψn’s work has been presented in theatres, galleries, and cinemas across Canada and internationally in India, Venezuela, and the United States. They are the recipient of multiple grants, awards, and residencies across Canada. erψn is one half of soft tooth||SFTTTH, an interdisciplinary sound collective that explores intimacy, resonance, and relationality. They were an artist in residence at Lorganisme (QC) and DUPLEX AiR (Portugal) in 2022 and at Tangente Danse (QC) in 2023.

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Parker Thiessen

Parker Thiessen is a filmmaker, sound artist/musician and designer originally from Beaverlodge, Alberta, with an interest in experimentation and DIY aesthetics. Through his work, Thiessen has explored and propelled the growth of the experimental music scene in Edmonton, initiating the Ramshackle Day Parade noise collective and label, co-founding Pseudo Laboratories cassette label, and performing in Zebra Pulse, Private Investigators, Soft Ions and solo as Bong Sample and more recently as Kaunsel. His film work includes experimental shorts, stop motion, live projections, music videos and video feedback/glitch experimentation.

Shannon Lin

Shannon Lin (she/her/hers) is an emerging dance artist based out of and originally from Amiskwacîwâskahikan, also known as Edmonton, Alberta. She trained and competed in various styles of dance for over ten years at Dance Theme prior to obtaining a BFA (Honours) from Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts in Vancouver, BC in 2020. Shannon has an extensive ballet background and trained in the Royal Academy of Dance syllabus, and has attended numerous competitions, conventions, and workshops throughout North America. At Simon Fraser University, Shannon learned various modern techniques such as Cunningham, Graham, Limon, and Horton, while also performing in several school performances featuring works by Joshua Beamish (MOVETHECOMPANY), Vanessa Goodman (Action at a Distance), Judith Garay (Dancers Dancing), Anya Saugstad, and many others. Shannon has collaborated with other students in the School as a choreographer for student film projects, and has since presented work at Nextfest with Good Women Dance Collective and Breakaway Entertainment. She is looking forward to exploring movement and film through REELING this year.

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Shawn Bracke

Shawn Bracke is a versatile Choreographer, Dancer and Visual Artist, creating movements for stage, film and television. His work is story-based and aims to inspire audiences to think critically and feel deeply. His aesthetic stems from his strong technical training and a professional career that's immersed in the commercial and concert dance worlds. His extensive training in Contemporary, Ballet, Jazz, Tap, Hip-hop genres and social dance vernacular have been integral to his unique movement. Shawn draws from experience with improvisational acting techniques to create a heightened emotional state with his work.

Having spent time living in Vancouver, London UK, Milan IT and now in Toronto, Canada. Shawn has gained credits working with major brands.

Shawn's Directorial and Choreographic Dance On Film works have been featured in over 25 International Film Festivals including the Oscar qualifying Hollyshorts Film Festival, Inside Out (TIFF) Film Festival and Canadian Film Fest. Selected Choreography credits include: Macy's, The Hudson Bay, The Abnormal Beauty Company (Deciem), Much Music MMVA's, YTV the Zone, The Next Step (associate chor.), We Day, BBC television, Converse, Bud Light Sensation, ACT Toronto, Freeform Network.

As an instructor he has taught at over 250 locations (studios, conventions and training programs) in Canada, the US, the UK, France and Italy. Prominent institutions and programs include: Liverpool Institute For Performing Arts (UK), Centennial College (ON), The Source Dance Company (BC), Harbour Dance Centre ITP (BC), George Brown (ON), Scholarship Dance Program (ON) and Randolph College For The Performing Arts (ON). Additionally he's currently a guest faculty member at: Studio North (ON), and has been faculty member at professional drop in centres: Underground Dance Centre (ON), Metro Movement (ON), Millennium Dance Complex (ON), Harbour Dance Centre (BC), Pineapple Dance Studios (UK), Studio 68 (UK) and The Dance Attic (UK).

Aly Turgeon

Aly Turgeon is a choreographer and interdisciplinary artist from Edmonton AB, currently based in Montreal QC. They graduated from Victoria School of the Arts, where they focused on composition,
performance, and written critical analysis of dance, and trained at a local studio for 15 years, gaining
technical proficiency in multiple styles of competitive dance. Aly’s choreographic practice is fuelled
by curiosity, seeking to uncover truths and complexities about the world and place them in a moment
in time. Through consistent practical research and self-reflection, they are equipped with a
well-rounded understanding of conceptual propositions before entering the studio. They’re passionate
about creating safe and respectful spaces of dialogue within their rehearsals; encouraging all
perspectives to be heard. Using these tools, they prioritize creating multiple access points to their
work, allowing audiences with all ranges of dance experience to enter the worlds they build.

Cameron Fraser-Monroe

Cameron Fraser-Monroe (he/him) is a member of the Tla'amin First Nation. At three years old he started Ukrainian dancing in Vernon, BC. He was privileged to receive several years of training and performance with World Champion Hoop Dancer Dallas Arcand and studied Grass Dance with Elder Mollie Bono.

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Jasmine Liaw

Jasmine Liaw is a queer emerging Chinese Hakka Canadian interdisciplinary artist in dance performance, new media art, and experimental film. Bicoastal, she is based in so-called Toronto and Vancouver. Her practice explores the complexities of her contemporary views of Hakka diaspora, queerness, and environmental anxiety. She is the Artistic Associate of Chimerik 似不像, working in interdisciplinary research and creation. She is the current artist-in-residence with F-O-R-M Recorded Movement Society’s Technology and Interaction Program. Some of her recent collaborations and presentations include The Asian Artist Culture and Trust/Holt Renfrew, Vector Festival, MPCAS/Grunt Gallery, RT Collective Commission Film Program in partnership with Toronto Dance Theatre, in conjunction with Chimerik's project "Ritual Spective,” and adelheid dance projects.

Mark Bath

Mark Bath is an artist based in Toronto. Originally from Newfoundland, Mark studied
Dramatic Literature, Creative Writing and Performance and Communications Media at
Memorial University; and Illustration and Printmaking at OCAD University. In addition to
his visual art practice, Mark is an active dancer, having performed in Neighbourhood
Dance Works’ New Chapter Dance Project Navigating Home in 2019, a collaboration
with 21 Newfoundland dancers and choreographers Christopher House and Anne
Troake.

Sandra Lamouche

Sandra Lamouche is a member of the Bigstone Cree Nation in Northern Alberta. She is a champion hoop dancer, an award-winning Indigenous education leader, TEDx Speaker, author, a multidisciplinary storyteller and artist. She completed her master’s thesis on Indigenous Dance and wholistic well-being. The hoop dance and its teachings of unity, balance, equality and interconnectedness of creation influence her creations. This often includes land based practices, environmental and climate related topics as well as, social justice issues include advocacy for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Residential School Survivors and their descendants, both which have impacted her and her family.

Tavia Christina

Tavia Christina is a multi-hyphenate artist based in Tkarón:to (Toronto, ON), residing on
treaty 13 territory. Tavia embraces their ethereal nature as a driving force in both their
artistic expression and research. They find solace, inspiration, and the ability to create
through movement, seeing it as a means of communication, healing, and personal
transformation. Their choreographic research and development are informed by
improvisation, voice work, and a deep connection with the surrounding ecology. Their
practice is based in somatic movement, improvisation, and spiritual endurance. They
have a background in western contemporary dance training -graduate from Toronto
Metropolitan University- as well as other mediums such as: curation, acting, poetry,
occultism, film and photography.

Yezenia Jiang