The ingenuity, invention and beauty of the Baroque era reflected the theatricality and spatialization of power. As the body carves itself into an edifice of fleeting perfection so too do great empires crumble. Only this time, it’s chamber ballet disrupted.

Sleeping Booty finds three fairy tale ballerinas at the crossroads of girlish naiveté, Stepford wife-hood, and happily-ever-after. An irreverent tale a little more twisted than Disney or the Brothers Grimm might have us believe.

In a distant galaxy, a newly minted human creation in search of a soul. A clash of technology and dance, when movement becomes sound becomes light becomes image becomes life.

Winner of 2006 Isadora Award for Excellence in Choreography.

Joe Ink continued to surprise in this gently melancholic, evocative solo (or duet, whichever way you want to look at it) about a man and a teacup.

An international collaboration with the South African dance company Moving Into Dance Mophatong. A mesmerizing work of great artistic, social and political significance, the piece was inspired by the dancers’ own stories and experiences.

Humorous and emotionally compelling, The Body Remembers is a highly kinetic look at the mechanics of moving and the material life of the human body.

Lines between audience and performers blur in this outrageous and interactive dance cabaret about the seven deadly sins, which features the audience in the middle of the action. Original score by Hard Rubber Orchestra’s John Korsrud.

Another work involving scaffolding, Swing Theory premiered in the great hall of the National Gallery of Canada. Four dancers negotiate the unyielding metal framework, accompanied by photographic images, an original score and a live jazz band.

An amused and amusing look at social conventions. L’Etiquette was created for the Banff Festival Ballet.

Sparked by a 1940s snapshot of Joe Laughlin’s father and his three brothers, this piece looks at what it means to move like men. A social commentary on the Old Boys’ Club. Originally created for the KISS Project.

Three daring female dancers explore a steel structure of tubes, rods and clamps in this look at human fragility and industrialism. The beginning of Joe Ink’s self-defined “scaffolding period.”

Highly athletic, high-impact dance with a twist: the performers are dressed in hockey equipment.

Gender lines are blurred in this socio-political commentary on being male AND
female.

AIDS is everyone’s war.