Joe Ink is part of The Scotiabank Dance Centre’s and the Canadian Music Centre’s presentation of  10X10X10 – ten choreographers collaborating with ten composers, creating ten ten-minute performances. Working with Marcus Goddard, Joe Laughlin will be choreographing a piece featuring dancers Tara Dyberg and Katherine Cowie.

This event will be a ground breaking production on several levels, marking the first production collaboration between the Dance Centre and the CMC which will provoke new dialogue between these two integral Vancouver arts centres. The 10 Associate Composers from the CMC and 10 Choreographers from the Dance Centre artists will have a wonderful chance to develop their work in direct collaboration with each other. The event also marks the 10th anniversary of the move to Davie Street for both the Vancouver Dance Centre and the BC Regional Centre of the Canadian Music Centre. The audience will be given the opportunity ample opportunity to explore the creative/collaborative process.

Date: Open House Sept 17, 2011 & Performances Oct 13 – 15, 2011
Location: ScotiaBank Dance Centre, 677 Davie Street, Vancouver

For more details, visit the CelebrateVancouver125 website or the ScotiaBank Dance Centre website

Saturday July 9th, 2-5pm

Come one, come all! Move It! invites participants back into their bodies, to everyone’s first language: movement.

This multi-generational community performance is a culmination of a series of on-going workshops that commenced earlier this year. Move It! combines non-professional movers to explore the processes of dance and movement.

Anyone can join! From toddlers to grandmothers and everyone in between, community members of all ages and abilities come together to be inspired, empowered and motivated to move their bodies through dance making.

These workshops leading up to the performance run:
June 27th – 30th, July 4 – 8th 11am-1pm
at The Firehall Arts Centre.
Everyone welcome! Free for all! Everyone dance!

For more information, please visit the Move It! page, or call The Firehall Arts Centre at 604.689.0691

Thursday,  April 21, 7:30pm
At the Roundhouse Community Performance Centre
181 Roundhouse Mews (Davie and Pacific)
$5 Minimum Donation at the door

As part of the Roundhouse Community Dancers residency program, Jacci Collins, senior facilitator of Move It! has choreographed a piece  to be showcased in LINK , an annual performance series of community dance in Vancouver.

Visit our Move It! page, for more information.

Firehall Arts Centre
280 East Cordova St, Vancouver BC

This much anticipated premiere of the full-length piece, dusk,  has the dance world taking notice.

“What makes the choreography so interesting is the way bodies melt and entwine in the duets, and carve space in the solos. At every given moment, there is an arresting image that catches the eye.”
-Paula Citron, Globe and Mail, July 2010

Dusk is the beginning of darkness in the evening.
It is the end of civil twilight.
In between the appearance of night and disappearance of light our perception may alter in a world of changing visibility. In the declining light we reconcile the memory of what was with the reality of what is.

Aug 22,  2pm performance
FREE
At Ron Basford Park, Granville Island.
As part of New Works’ All Over the Map series.

Move It! is everybody’s chance to groove! This performance will invite, empower, and motivate the audience back into their bodies through movement and dance making.All ages and abilities, all shapes and sizes, shake a leg, get down and funky.

For more information please visit the Move it page.

As part of the Dancing on the Edge Festival
July 12 & 13 – 7pm

At the Firehall Arts Centre, 280 E. Cordova St
To purchase tickets and for more information please visit
www.dancingontheedge.org

The first piece, Move It, is drawn with a large group of community dancers and the second, Dusk, is a series of movement studies created with professional dancers.

The human body wants to dance. Move it celebrates this by connecting a multi-generational group of people who come together and re-imagine their bodies in space.

Dusk is the beginning of darkness in the evening. This is the beginning of a full length work based on experiences surrounding declining light, physical transition and the memory of what was in relation to the reality of what is.

June 7-11 from 10-12pm
June 14-18 from 10-12pm
FREE
280 E. Cordova St at the Firehall Studio
Information and Registration: 604-689-0691
www.firehallartscentre.ca

Led by Joe Ink Artistic Director, Joe Laughlin and Move It! Facilitator, Jacci Collins, the workshop will culminate in a performance by the Move It! community dancers during this year’s Dancing on the Edge Festival in July.

The workshop is open to all ages; however, anyone 12 and under must be accompanied by a parent or caregiver.

For more information about Move It!, please click here.

This Move It! is made possible through the support of the City of Vancouver Great Beginnings Program, The Dancing on the Edge Festival and the Firehall Arts Centre as part of the Dancing in the Streets project.

Dusk is the beginning of darkness in the evening. It is the end of civil twilight.

This is the beginning stage of a longer work concerned with themes surrounding  darkness, shadows, limited visibility, and the fall of night

Dancers: Tara Dyberg, Michelle Cheung, Caroline Farqhuar, Samantha Gray(Apprentice)

Performances: EDAM, Vancouver BC,  December 2009

Joe Laughlin choreographs new work with Ballet British Columbia in collaboration with the Arts Umbrella Graduate Program in  Surfacing.

November, 2009

(in)habitat explores how we define our sense of place in the world and the importance of home as sanctuary. How does our physical environment shape our behaviour and impact our relationships? Shelter is a basic human need; it’s also an expression of our hopes, our dreams and even our deepest fears.

Performances: Firehall Arts Centre, as part of the Dance in Vancouver Festival Oct 2009

Read what Georgia Straight, Vancouver had to say.

So does Joe Ink!

Feb 16th, 7:00 pm
Roundhouse Community Centre

An Interactive Performance for all ages!

Shake a leg, get down and get funky with The Move It Show! – a magical interactive performance that connects audiences in a hands-on, full-body arts experience. The audience literally steps onto the stage in this live show and becomes featured as guest artists; to be whirled and twirled and inspired into movement by a marvelous program led by two of our most talented dancers. This energetic and humorous show promotes healthy self-image, cooperation and creativity. Every body is a dancer in The Move It Show!

The Move It Show! is partnered with the Roundhouse Arts Centre, the Looking Glass Foundation, Host a City Happening and Cultural Olympiad.

Tickets are FREE and we are hoping that all and everyone can come out for this. Get the whole family down. Its going to be a lot of fun. Please contact info@joeink.ca or 604-893-8807 for large groups or info. No reservations required, but we can save spots.