A mixed-bill performance featuring contemporary work by Choreographers Shelby Richardson and Giselle Liu. 

CHAR is a new dance work in development that responds to the ongoing experience of wildfire in Northern and rural communities. Through movement and sound, the piece reflects on repetition, disruption, and the ways these cycles stay in the body. This public showing includes excerpts from the work and a facilitated post-show conversation.

Choreography: Shelby Richardson in collaboration with Lauren Fisher, Shayla Dyble, Sara McGowan | Sound Design: Nancy Tam | Photography: Keli Watson | Lighting Design: Ray Morgan

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Behind Veiled Eyes is a multi-disciplinary contemporary dance work shaped by intergenerational and cross-cultural narratives, where movement, sound, and image move in colaboration.Audiences will experience an excerpt featuring a solo by Lauren Fisher and a duet by Shayla Dyble and Isabelle Dansereau-Corradi. Through intimate, physically grounded choreography, the work opens a space where lineage, emotion, and inner complexity are carried through the body.Blending contemporary dance with layered sound and projected, Behind Veiled Eyes invites viewers into a living landscape of memory and relationship, one that unfolds through presence.

Choreography - Giselle Liu in collaboration with performers | Technical Director Ray Morgan | Performers - Shayla Dyble, Lauren Fisher, Isabelle Dansereau-Corradi | Costume Design Katherine Liu | Projection Giselle Liu | Lighting Design - Ray Morgan and Giselle Liu | Sound Composition: Giselle Liu & Isabelle Dansereau-Corradi

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Left Unsaid is a 20-minute interdisciplinary performance in development. It explores the moment when inherited grief becomes active, as a physical encounter, as a presence living in the body. Through movement, live voice, and elemental materials like water, the work reveals how memory reorganizes through somatic experience.

Choreography - Giselle Liu in collaboration with performers | Technical Director - Ray Morgan | Performers - Shayla Dyble, Lauren Fisher, Sara McGowen & Isabelle Dansereau-Corradi | Mask Design - Lisa Dickson | Sound Design - Giselle Liu & Isabelle Dansereau- Corradi