An extraordinary double bill that left me utterly transformed. … amongst the most embodied dance productions I have ever seen.
~ Review Vancouver
COMING SOON / PROCHAINEMENT
Dancing on the Edge Festival
June 12 & 13
A Double Bill by Belle Spirale Dance Projects featuring the choreographic works of Alexis Fletcher/Sylvain Senez and Sid Chuckas. Witness a true celebration of our exceptional community, where 11 diverse artists— 7 from Belle Spirale and 4 currently dancing with Ballet BC—join forces to bring you an evening of powerful and poetic dance.
New Creation: DOVES by Sid Chuckas
Belle Spirale is proud to produce an exciting new creation by Sid Chuckas. A powerful emerging voice in our community, and an artist loved for their compelling performances both with Ballet BC and at The Dance Deck, we cannot wait to share this innovative new work which draws from Sid’s unique voice as a dancer, creator and an architect.
DOVES drifts between memory and dream, inhabiting the strange geography of the sleeping mind: our dreams not as linear narratives, but constantly evolving terrain. Bodies dissolve through softness, collision, longing, and flight. Children echo in distant fields. Rain presses against the earth. Water rushes toward somewhere unnamed.
The work remembers what it felt like to disappear into imagination completely — to move without gravity through worlds both beautiful and unbearable.
Dreaming becomes instinct. Survival. Surrender. A body in motion before language can explain it. Like birds navigating invisible currents, DOVES searches for the quiet knowing within wonder, fear, and the landscapes we carry long after waking.
~ Sid Chuckas.
DOVES was originally created with generous creation support from Ballet BC’s Take Form.
PERFORMERS: Ariana Barr, Nathan Coburn, Brenna Metzmeier, Kylie Miller, Kaylin Sturtevant, Stan Tonin.
Photos of Sid Chuckas by Marcus Eriksson
KIN
Created by Belle Spirale Directors Alexis Fletcher and Sylvain Senez in collaboration with the performers
Ysadora Dias by Sylvain Senez
Performed by Lazaro and Ysadora, KIN explores ideas of belonging, lineage and kinship as guided by these Brazilian artists’ personal stories and shared mother tongue.
Through the honesty, vulnerability and daring of the dancing body, KIN celebrates arrival, tenacity, and the people who become our chosen family.
Lazaro Silva by Michael Slobodian
Created in 2023 with original cast Lazaro and Juan Duarte as a work in progress performance commissioned by STAND Festival, we are thrilled to be presenting the fully developed world premiere this season!
