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End of March Newsletter



Happy start of Spring! We joyously welcome in this season of growth, transformation and blooming. We have loved gathering with some of you at our monthly Moon Meetings and our Vancouver One Night Choirs, and look forward to this next season of connection. Now more than ever, we feel the huge gift of coming together to practice, exchange and be with each other. 


We are so excited to be writing about our upcoming performance offerings and an update on our Matching Donation Campaign!  Dance Dim Sum is happening May 4th at Vancouver’s Left of Main, the Tkarón:to premiere of Firehorse and Shadow is coming to the Citadel in Toronto June 5-8th, and we are getting so close to reaching our matching donation goal!!!  Thank you Sandra and Jim Pitblado for making Springtime so exciting!!!



UPCOMING

Image design by Camille Rojas
Image design by Camille Rojas

Firehorse and Shadow

Dreamwalker Dance Company presents Toronto’s premiere of Firehorse and Shadow, a co-production with Citadel + Compagnie!


Combining elements of contemporary dance, shadow puppetry, animation, video and theatre, Firehorse and Shadow explores cosmology, family histories, relationships, Chinese medicine, wellness, food, and fate. The work illuminates embodied and often untold stories, centering on the lived experiences of Chinese Canadian women, while also delving into broader narratives of identity and heritage.


Firehorse and Shadow is co-created by choreographer/performer/writer Andrea Nann, shadow artist/performer Annie Katsura Rollins, director/dance-storyteller Sarah Chase, and dramaturge/visual artist Cindy Mochizuki, with music by Ben Grossman, animation by Elysha Poirier, and lighting by Echo Zhou (after Jennifer Lennon).  



Dates & Times: June 5–8, 2025 

Location: The Citadel, 304 Parliament St, Toronto, ON

Tickets: $35 Regular, $25 Artist/Student/Senior*


This is a piece we had planned to share back in March of 2020 – due to the pandemic, the work shifted and became an online offering, then later became a multi-year project-in-community in Vancouver. We are so excited to now share it back in Tkarón:to.


*If ticket prices are a barrier, please email Kelsi at kelsi@dreamwalkerdance.com 



Jia Yi (Judy) Luo & Juolin Lee
Jia Yi (Judy) Luo & Juolin Lee

Dance Dim Sum

We are thrilled to kick off Asian Heritage Month 2025 with a community gathering and sharing of new works-in-progress at Left of Main in Vancouver’s Historic Chinatown. JL² (Judy Luo and Juolin Lee) will be sharing some of their work and shared process, and Judy and Andrea will be sharing an excerpt of their new work 田天 tiántiān, created in collaboration with choreographer Sarah Chase.


There will be tea, snacks, and a chance to connect in community – and dance dim sum! 


Dates & Times: May 4th, 11:30am-12:30pm 

Location: Left of Main (211 Keefer St, Vancouver) 

Tickets: By Donation


More about the works:

JL²: Formation explores how the intersection of cultural upbringing, physical training, spiritual formation and geographic location impact the expression of the body.


田天 tiántiān is a new dance work featuring two generations of deeply realized Chinese Canadian dancers who move in unusual synchronized harmony. 田天 tiántiān is created and performed by Jia Yi (Judy) Luo and Andrea Nann in collaboration with choreographer Sarah Chase.


For more information, or for any questions, please email Creative Producer Kelsi James at kelsi@dreamwalkerdance.com.



Monthly Offerings

Conscious Bodies: Sharing Embodied Stories  – our monthly Zoom gathering – is happening every New Moon throughout 2025. Join the mailing list or follow for updates on our social media. Accompanying embodied activations will also be posted on our site – this month’s activation is “Awakening” !


One Night Choir, our drop-in embodied choir happening at Morrow in Vancouver is on again this April 14th, and monthly through September 2025. Sign up online, and follow for updates on our social media!



Matching Campaign

Earlier this month, the Dreamwalker board launched this year’s Matching Donation Campaign! Generously funded by Sandra and Jim Pitblado, every dollar donated during the campaign will be matched up to $10,000. 






We wish you all good things for this season: may all that was seeded and hibernated in you through Winter begin to thaw, and sprout, and blossom.


Warm wishes,

Dreamwalker Dance

 
 
 

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It is our intent that everyone feels invited, wanted, and welcomed to participate in our events and activities. We continue to do the work to listen, learn, unlearn, and relearn in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Calls to Action, in response to the Black Lives Matter Movement, and in recognition of all past and present atrocities, persecution and mistreatment of people based on their ethnicity, culture, place of origin, race, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical appearance, and/or (dis)ability.   We stand in solidarity with all who are facing or have faced persecution or discrimination, and are working to create a supportive, safe and equitable world. 

 

We are honoured to live, work and create in Toronto/Tkaronto on Dish With One Spoon Indigenous Territory and acknowledge the Land as Traditional Territory of many Nations including the Haudenosaunee, the Anishnabeg, the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Chippewa, and the Wendat Peoples.

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