YLDE Co-Director Call

YLDE Co-Director Call — July 2022

We’re Hiring!

Title: Co-Director (45 week contract, possibility of renewal)

Wage: $27/hr

Starting Contract: $12,000

Timeline: August 22, 2022 – June 30 2023 (averaging 10.5 hrs/week)

DESCRIPTION

Young Lungs Dance Exchange is a not-for-profit artist-run support organization committed to the development, creation and presentation of contemporary dance and performance on Treaty 1 Territory, Winnipeg, MB.

YLDE’s range of projects are aimed at dancers, makers, thinkers of dance, and anyone contributing to their physical understanding of self and the world around them. YLDE believes that physical expression is a political act that requires support and community interaction. We therefore are committed to nurturing the beginnings of the creative process when artists are most engaged in experimentation, research, building new ideas and discovering new collaborations.

We’re looking for a Co-Director to join the team to co-lead our organization in supporting the evolution of dance in Manitoba. The ideal candidate will share with us a love for dance and the belief that dance should hold a vital and valued place in society. As well, they will have flexible daytime and evening availability, a strong grounding in dance/dance knowledge, strong grant writing skills, and have an excitement for creative visioning and working closely with a team to co-steer this organization.

RESPONSIBILITIES of YLDE’s CO-DIRECTOR

Organizational Development

Research, vision, and plan future Young Lungs Dance Exchange organizational development in collaboration with Co-Director and the board of directors
Research grant opportunities that match the direction of the organization

Human Resources

Co-Lead team of contractors (Residency Coordinator, Bookkeeping, etc.)
Liaise with, and maintain positive relations to all those connected to YLDE (contractors, artists, funders, partners, stakeholders, etc.)

Operations

Oversee all YLDE activity
Secure appropriate studio space/venues, and work with the online platform ‘Zoom’
Respond appropriately to evolving MB COVID-19 protocols
Manage workshops, training, jams, presentations, and outreach events
Write grants, reports, and contracts
Write calls for artists, calls for contractors, statements to the public, etc.

Administrative Tasks

Propose projected budget and maintain actual budget
General bookkeeping, and work with bookkeeper to manage YLDE finances
Manage payroll and pay all invoices
Maintain an organized filing system for all YLDE related documents
Report to the board of directors
Monitor work hours, budgeting time appropriately for work dense periods (ex. grant deadlines)

Communications and Outreach

Act as media contact
Establish and maintain partnerships by engaging with relevant organizations, artists, and stakeholders within the local, national, and international arts community
Manage, social media accounts (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook)
Produce regular bi-monthly e-newsletters
Manage website redevelopment
Monitor and respond to emails

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Excellent communication skills (written, verbal, and visual)
Strong independent work ethic, and excellent organizational skills
Proficiency in excel spreadsheets
Strong project management skills, ability to handle projects end-to-end
Must have a love for communicating with people, and deep respect for artists

Must be highly adaptable and able to co-lead a team, working collaboratively
Must have a strong dance knowledge base
Must have flexible daytime, and some evening and weekend availability
Must have access to wifi, work space, and a working smartphone & computer

Experience

Must have experience in leading an organization or team
Must have experience working in dance, performance, and/or the arts
Experience working within the Winnipeg dance community is an asset
Experience working in the non-profit sector, and with a board of directors is an asset
Experience using WordPress, google drives, Mailchimp, Zoom, Eventbrite, Facebook, Instagram, and twitter is an asset
Must have expertise in the areas of grant writing, budgeting, making schedules, and keeping deadlines

YLDE is committed to the principle of equitable access to employment, and welcomes applications from diverse backgrounds. We encourage you to self-identify in your cover letter.

If you are interested and qualified for this exciting opportunity, please submit a cover letter and resume by end of day, Sunday, August 14th, 2022 to Kayla Jeanson, Board Chair, Young Lungs Dance Exchange.
By email: YLDEcodirectorcall@gmail.com with subject line: YLDE Co-Director

Young Lungs Dance Exchange (YLDE) is located in Winnipeg, MB on Treaty 1 Territory. Our Board of Directors, Kayla Jeanson, Sam Penner, Yuri Karube, Susie Burpee, Neilla Hawley, Jennifer Otisi, Johanna Riley, and Ella Steele welcomes all humans to participate in YLDE activities, and strives to work on/with accessible platforms, and in physically accessible studios and venues. YLDE has a zero tolerance policy for any racial discrimination, transphobia, gender discrimination, misogyny, bullying, or sexual harassment. YLDE strives to be a safer space for everyone.

YLDE Residency Coordinator Call

YLDE Residency Coordinator Call — July 2022

We’re Hiring!

Title: Residency Coordinator (32 Week Contract)

Wage: $24/hr

Starting Contract: $6,000

Timeline: August 22, 2022 – March 31, 2023 (averaging 7.5 hrs/week)

DESCRIPTION

YLDE’s Residency Programs are designed to support the creative processes of artists engaging in dance and movement based projects, by providing resources such as artists fees, mentorship, resources, and public presentation opportunities.

We’re looking for a Residency Coordinator to manage The Screen Dance Mentorship Residency Program running from September-December 2022 and the Research Residency slated to run January-March 2023. The ideal candidate will share with us a love for dance and the belief that dance should hold a vital and valued place in society. As well, they will have an excitement for the creative process, project planning, and engaging with/caring for people.

RESPONSIBILITIES of YLDE’s RESEARCH SERIES COORDINATOR

Administration

Report to Co-Directors
Collect all necessary materials from all Residency participants to promote the Residency (Ex. Headshots, bios, etc)
Liaise with selected artists to ensure all needs are being met
Collect photo consent from participants and the public at events
Liaise with, and maintain positive relations to all those connected to YLDE (contractors, artists, funders, partners, stakeholders, etc.)
Work within and maintain Residency budgets
Maintain an organized filing system for all Residency related documents
Monitor and respond to emails
Monitor work hours, budgeting time appropriately for work dense periods

Operations

Oversee all Residency activity
Secure appropriate studio space/venues, and work with the online platform ‘Zoom’
Working with Technical Support, ensure all technical needs are being met for virtual based activities
Working with Co-Directors, ensure all promotional material is being sent out in a timely and effective manner
Ensure accessibility needs are being met
Respond appropriately to evolving MB COVID-19 protocols
Create rehearsal schedules for all participating artists in the Research Series as needed
Administer contracts at the direction of Co-Directors
Organize and schedule public presentations and workshops
Hire, and ensure proper documentation is taken for all Public events
Work with ‘EventBrite’ and organize registration for public events
Coordinate volunteers and event staff needed for public activities
Keep track of numbers, significant learnings/events, and write a final report summarizing these details including naming all partners, artists, volunteers.

QUALIFICATIONS for YLDE’s RESIDENCY COORDINATOR

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Excellent communication skills (written, verbal, and visual)
Strong independent work ethic, and excellent organizational skills
Strong project management skills, ability to handle projects end-to-end
Must be highly adaptable and able to work collaboratively
Must have a love for communicating with people, and deep respect for art
Must be willing to work occasional evenings and weekends to attend events
Must have an understanding of the online platform ‘Zoom’
Must have access to wifi, work space, and a working computer

Experience

Must have experience in event planning and coordination
Experience working in dance, performance, and/or the arts is an asset
Experience working in the non-profit sector is an asset
Must have expertise in the areas of correspondence, time-management, budget keeping, and scheduling

YLDE is committed to the principle of equitable access to employment, and welcomes applications from diverse backgrounds. We encourage you to self-identify in your cover letter.

If you are interested and qualified for this exciting opportunity, please submit a cover letter and resume by end of day, Sunday, August 14th, 2022 to Jillian Groening, Interim Co-Director, Young Lungs Dance Exchange.

By email: younglungs.wpg@gmail.com with subject line: YLDE Residency Coordinator

We thank all applicants for their expression of interest, however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Screen Dance Mentorship Residency — Call for Submissions

Still from video animation essay by Toby Gillies with Bahay Perlas, 2021

Screen Dance Mentorship Residency — Call for Submissions

Program Runs September-December 2022, Winnipeg MB

The Screen Dance Mentorship Residency program is designed to support the choreographic inquiries of artists into the lens of filmmaking by providing mentorship and resources such as artists fees, studio space, and public presentation and discussion opportunities. The purpose of the residency is to allow for in-depth skill building in developing, creating, editing, and sharing video works.

Six (6) artists will be selected to participate in a mentorship residency with filmmakers Toby Gillies and Natalie Baird via the following application process. The Residency will take place in-person in Winnipeg, MB.

Young Lungs Dance Exchange (YLDE) is committed to the principle of equitable access and strives for a fair, cooperative, respectful, and safe environment that protects and promotes human rights and affirms the dignity of all persons. A minimum of two (2) Black, Indigenous, or artist of colour (or artistic team-lead) will be selected of the two (6) projects. We encourage you to self-identify.

YLDE has funds set aside to support a portion of accessibility-related costs. We are happy to work together with artists to secure the appropriate and necessary budgeting requirements.

Applications will be reviewed and chosen by a selection committee.

About the Mentoring Filmmakers:

Toby Gillies and Natalie Baird are a visual art duo based in Winnipeg. Since 2014 they have shared collaborative practices rooted in drawing, photography, filmmaking, and animation. They have worked with community groups and in health care settings to collaborate with fellow creatives and unlikely artists to imagine, make, and share small and large-scale art productions. Their community-engaged work has taken many avenues, including art facilitation and immersive art experience – resulting in animations, video works, ceramic murals, photo-printed canvas tents, publications, vinyl window installations, and public exhibitions. Since 2014 they have been artists in residence at Misericordia Health Centre, making art with adults and seniors living in long-term and transitional care. Currently Toby and Natalie are co-directing a short animation, featuring elder Edith Almadi as she shares her imagination and the power it has to bring her to the stars, in development with the National Film Board.

Over the years Natalie and Toby have had the opportunity to collaborate with dance and movement artists to inspire and co-create new works. They are excited to mentor and learn from the six participating artists.

Stedroy Crump and Tessa Rae, 2022 / Photo by Michelle Panting

Context & Outline:

Resources facilitated by YLDE during the residency:

• A budget of $4,000 for artist fee

• Access to camera equipment and editing software

• Mentorship all along the way

• Public presentations of the works created in residence

• Free access to six additional public Screen Dance Education Events with guest artists

Each artist/group is required to adhere to the following:

• All artists involved must be available for, and share their work at the Public Screen Dance Presentation, on Sunday December 4, 2022

• Share their process with other participating artists-in-residence through cohort meet-ups

• Be available for all seven Bi-Weekly Learning sessions with Co-Mentors and cohort running September 5-November 28

1 – Meet and Greet: Introducing Artists and Projects / Getting Started: Gathering the Pieces, Putting Together a Team

2 – Pre-Production: Storyboard, Shot Lists, Shooting Schedules

3 – Cameras: What to choose? What is available? / Know Your Resources

4 – Shooting: Lighting, Locations, Composition, Style, Content, Colours

5 – Sound: Getting the Rights to Music, Shooting with Sound, Editing Sound

6 – Editing: Deciding on Editing Software / Working with an Editor

7 – Dissemination: Presentation Platforms & Promotion

Submission Guidelines:

To apply, please submit the following information by email with the subject line: Screen Dance Mentorship Submission to younglungs.wpg@gmail.com

DEADLINE TO APPLY: Friday, August 19, 2022

1. Contact information: Full name, preferred pronouns, email, address, phone number.

2. A description of your dance film idea (800 words max.): Explain the inspiration for your film exploration and why you wish to make it now, as well as what sort of mentorship support you are looking for with this project (for example, three things you are hoping to learn through this mentorship residency)

3. CV (two-pages max.)

4. Biography (250 words max.): Please include any relevant dance and filmmaking experience you might have. Note: You do not need to have any filmmaking experience to participate in this program.

5. Two items of support material: This can include recent dance/movement work, or relevant materials to provide context for your film idea. Support material can be sent in the form of weblinks or attached documents with your emailed application. The jury will be asked to spend no more than 8 minutes on each submission’s support material. Please provide information on what you would like the jury to focus on if you are providing material that is longer than 4 minutes/1 written page/5 images for each item of support material.

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https://vimeo.com/736669465

https://vimeo.com/736671875

For questions, including further accessibility funds information, please do not hesitate to contact us at younglungs.wpg@gmail.com.

Young Lungs Dance Exchange is a not-for-profit artist-run support organization committed to the development, creation, and presentation of contemporary dance and performance on Treaty 1 Territory, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

More information about Young Lungs Dance Exchange at www.younglungs.ca.

The Screen Dance Mentorship Residency is made possible with the generous support of Canada Council for the Arts.

Home/Body, Home/Land with Jaime Black

**offering** **by Jaime Black**, 2021 / **photo credit: Niklas Konowal**

Home/Body, Home/Land with Jaime Black

August 29-31, 2022

11-3pm daily

Outdoors, in Stead, Manitoba (1 hour North East of Winnipeg, near Broken Head First Nation)

YLDE will have room to transport 6 participants, leaving the city from downtown at 10am-arriving back in the city at 4pm daily. You are also welcome to attend using your own transportation.

Lunch will be provided.

For site access info email younglungs.wpg@gmail.com

Click here to register!

~ Pay-What-You-Can // Suggested $90 Donation ~

Limited capacity, Register by August 21

About the Workshop:

Home/Body, Home/Land is a three-day, site specific performance workshop held in partnership with and on the traditional territories of the Métis, Anishinaabe and Cree communities in Manitoba. Through our work we will explore the histories of the land we are on, creating interconnections and linkages between the land and the body through movement and physical interactions with the land and one another. We will facilitate creating relationship to the land by allowing our bodies to tap into the histories of the site and observing the cycles, changes, and movements of the land we are on, building a mimetic series of gestures that reflect the environment and embrace the land as teacher and guide.

*As lunch is provided, when registering for the workshop, please indicate any dietary restrictions. Please also include any access needs that you have as well as transportation resources and requirements, ie. access to a vehicle and how many seats, or if needing a ride.

About Jaime:

Jaime Black is a multidisciplinary artist of Anishinaabe, Métis and European descent. Black’s art practice engages in themes of memory, identity, place and resistance and is grounded in an understanding of the body and the land as sources of cultural and spiritual knowledge.

YLDE thanks Winnipeg Arts Council, Manitoba Arts Council, and Canada Council for the Arts for their continued funding support, thank you also to this workshop’s partners Jérôme Marchildon & Angela Fey!

Presence Action Support: Movement Workshop with Ali Robson

Saturday, June 18th, 2022
10am-3pm
At The Output, 100 Arthur St, 2nd floor

The venue is wheelchair accessible with gender inclusive washrooms. Face masks required.

For building access info click here https://art-space.ca/accessibility-info/, or email younglungs.wpg@gmail.com.

Click here to register!
~ Pay-What-You-Can ~

Please register by June 10th.

About the Workshop:

This workshop is designed to reflect on how we move into presence, action and support. The day will be divided into two halves; the first half will include a group warm up and the second half will be movement improvisations in small groups. The warm up will include improvised movement pathways that are designed to physically warm up, encourage reflection and engage the imagination. The movement improvisations will be a chance for participants to respond physically to a movement score as well as observe fellow participants. This second half of the day will include group discussions and reflections.

This workshop is open to anyone interested in exploring movement as an expressive and reflective medium. The day will move cautiously into working in a shared space together and any partnering (ie: physically touching) will be at the discretion of each participant.

There will be lunch provided in between the first and second part of the day. In registering for the workshop, please indicate any dietary restrictions and/or access needs that you have.

About Ali Robson:

Ali Robson is a dance artist, parent and lifelong learner who is curious about collaborating across disciplines, in different communities and creating work with and for people of all ages. She has worked as a dancer, teacher, choreographer, rehearsal director, movement coach and collaborator since 2004. Ali is a collective member of Weather Parade Dance Theatre with Natasha Torres-Garner, and together they produce intergenerational performances in public and artistic spaces. Ali is an instructor at the University of Winnipeg and has taught creative movement and improvisation classes for children and adults throughout Winnipeg and across Canada. She is currently working towards a degree in Urban and Inner City Studies. Most recently her artistic and academic collaborations have included using arts-based research to look at social issues like housing and adult literacy.

This workshop is made possible with the generous funding support from Manitoba Arts Council.

YLDE Online Auction Fundraiser!

Young Lungs Dance Exchange (YLDE) is a not-for-profit artist-run organization who is grateful to have the incredible support of donors. We are able to continue our abilities to be a critical network which connects, sustains, and champions dance and movement artists in Manitoba and beyond thanks to over 15-years of community-driven fundraising efforts.

The goal of YLDE’s 2022 fundraiser is to strengthen our three poles of programming: Research Series, Workshop Series, and Outreach Series. The Research Series provides space, time, and financial support for selected artists to further explore critical inquiries related to dance and movement creation. The Workshop Series provides a platform wherein artists can share knowledge while exploring emergent questions related to training and form in a supportive environment with peers. The Outreach Series is a flexible approach to knowledge sharing which encompasses casual, personal encounters with dance and performance that have taken shape as movement research labs, reading groups, and artist talks. All three poles connect artists in ways that are transdisciplinary, transregional, and collaborative while bringing audiences closer to the inner workings of the creative process.

Our online auction features a stellar collection of experiences, items, and artworks that speak to the fabulous arts and culture scene of the prairies.

Online auction extended to Sunday, June 12 at 11:59 pm

Please click here to view the auction items! You will need to login or create an account on the auction website to bid/buy.

Movement Offering & Artistic Sharing with Jeanette Kotowich

May 12th 2022
6:30 – 9 pm
At Théâtre Cercle Molière (340 Provencher Blvd)

The venue is wheelchair accessible with gender inclusive washrooms.
Face masks are mandatory.

ASL Interpretation Provided
Suggested Donation $1 – $30
Click here to register!

About the Workshop:

We gather for this workshop to connect with embodied practices related to Jeanette’s research in Métis & Nêhiyaw Cosmology that bridge movement expressions into contemporary dance and performance practices. This is an experiential movement workshop, sharing Indigenous cultural perspectives and contemporary dance approaches. Bring your courageous hearts as we intentionally explore specific values to nourish our practices. Together we will stoke our creative fires with compassion, kindness, bravery & joy. All experiences and bodies are welcome.

About Jeanette:

Jeanette is a multi-disciplinary iskwêw, independent dance artist, creator, choreographer and professional Auntie of Nêhiyaw Métis and mixed settler ancestry. Originally from Treaty 4 territory Saskatchewan, she creates work that reflects Nêhiyaw/Métis cosmology within the context of contemporary dance, Indigenous performance, and Indigenous futurism. Fusing interdisciplinary collaboration, de-colonial practices and embodied research methodologies; Jeanette’s work references protocol, ritual, relationship to the natural/spirit world and Ancestral knowledge. Her practice is intergenerational and vocational; it’s a living and lived experience. Jeanette resides as a guest on the Ancestral and unceded Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) əl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ/ (Tsleil-Waututh) and Xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) territories, colonially known as Vancouver. movementhealing.ca

This workshop is made possible with the generous funding support from Manitoba Arts Council, with additional support from our partners Art Holm & Théâtre Cercle Molière.

The Dancer Transition Resource Centre will be hosting A mini networking event for on the MOVE 2022 participants in this same venue from 4:30 – 6:30pm prior to Jeanette’s workshop. Learn more and register for this event here.

Open Jam: All-Styles Street Session

2022 Artists-In-Residence Tessa Rae and Stedroy Crump will lead a workshop that will host a community cypher/jam for all-styles of dancers

Friday, April 8
8:30 – 10:30 pm
At the Output, 100 Arthur Street, 2nd Floor
Gratefully accepting donations at the door

Click HERE to register!

About Tessa Rae

Tessa Rae is a Queer interdependent dance artist from the Treaty 4 Territory of Regina, Saskatchewan. She graduated from Ryerson University with a BFA in Performance Dance, working with choreographers such as Heidi Strauss, Kate Hilliard, Marie-Josee Chartier, Manuel Roque, Louis Laberge-Cote, and James Kudelka. Somewhere throughout her early training years, she fell in love with Hip Hop and Soca music, which inspired her entry into Hip Hop, Breaking, Dancehall and House training in addition to modern and contemporary dance. Tessa is now closely affiliated with New Dance Horizons where she is engaged in a long-term residency and mentorship with artists Robin Poitras and Edward Poitras. Most recently, she completed a new solo commission choreographed by Margie Gillis, supported by New Dance Horizons and SK Arts, and feels honoured to be continuing her involvement with The Legacy Project for Margie’s 50th anniversary season in 2023.

About Stedroy Crump

Stedroy has been in love with Hip Hop ever since he was young. He was enrolled in dance classes at 8 years old, but really fell in love with the craft at 12 as he started to compete in local dance competitions. Meeting his cousin- Naquan – at this age made him hungry as ever to keep learning and growing since Naquan was far better than him and had never taken classes! This hunger helped Stedroy become the recipient of the Manitoba Dance Festival Scholarship(x2), taking home Gold at Dance World Cup (Niagara Falls), while being undefeated in all local dance competitions. Wayne Santos was Stedroy’s mentor growing up and he was fortunate to have met him at Marquis Dance Academy. Stedroy currently teaches at Muse Studios, Kids Etc Youth Movement Company and Masterworks Dance Studio.

2022 Research Series: Endnote Roundtable Discussion

Young Lungs Dance Excahange is excited to present the 2022 Research Series! Join us as Chiamaka Barbara Ukwuegbu and David Oro present their written and visual essays as a response to the 2022 Artists-In-Residence.

Sunday, April 10, 2022
2:00 – 4:00 pm
At The Output, 100 Arthur St, 2nd floor
This is a FREE event

Click HERE to register!

Event will be held in-person. Masks are mandatory, and space will be limited.

For building access info, click here https://art-space.ca/accessibility-info/, or email younglungs.wpg@gmail.com.

About Chiamaka

Chiamaka Barbara Ukwuegbu (She/Her) is a storyteller of Nigerian descent who resides on Treaty 1 Territory & The Homeland of the Metis Nation. Her writing work includes opinion pieces, book reviews, short stories, essays, and poetry which she reluctantly shares on her blog and her Instagram page. For her, storytelling means returning home to her body, holding on to joy, unlearning silence, and giving herself permission to own her voice.

About David

David Oro is the Co-Founder & Art Director of U N I Together Productions and Founder & Creative Director of studiosarisari, a visual development studio for books, film, video games, and digital media. David has 25+ years of expertise in illustration, conceptual design, storyboarding and motion & graphic design. Born in Manilla, now based in Winnipeg, he has worked with Electric Monk Media and Complex Games to create work which can be found on Games workshop, SONY, Disney, CBC, Bell MTS and Shaw Media. Most recently, he storyboarded for an episode of Tales from the Loop, from Amazon prime directed by Jodie Foster.

Young Lungs Dance Exchange’s Research Series is generously supported by Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council.

2022 Research Series: Research Presentations

The 2022 Artists-In-Residence will present their creative research from their time in residence with Young Lungs Dance Exchange.

Saturday, April 9, 2022
7:00 – 9:00 pm
At The Output, 100 Arthur St, 2nd floor

Click HERE to register!

For building access info, click here https://art-space.ca/accessibility-info/, or email younglungs.wpg@gmail.com.

Event will be held in-person. Masks are mandatory, and space will be limited.

Payment is sliding scale $5-30
This event includes ASL Interpretation

About Angela’s Research

You Are Her(e) was originally created as a live performance piece exploring the relationship between the perceived imperfections in my body and the more laudable imperfections that one finds in the natural world, and which are described as “natural beauty.” This research will directly influence my next steps in furthering You Are Her(e) – re-envisioning the project as an Augmented Reality app.

The pandemic’s forced pause on this work has provided me with time to become curious around the bigger themes and ideas posed in this work – the role of eco-feminism and how colonialism has affected the way we speak about and interact with both land and women’s bodies; how crippling the creation process affects our relationships to each other, to the work and to our self; when colonial land stewardship practices and Indigenous knowledge are presented side by side, how do we, as artmakers, embody this information and allow it to affect our personal storytelling? Finally, I have made a commitment to making work with a low to no carbon footprint. I believe this research is integral to the creation of an interactive app that can engage users without the need for travel, sets and tickets!

 In this exploration, I also hope to affirm that the physical differences which the fashion and beauty industries try to fix and change are in fact the key important elements in our individual personal beauty. Using my personal story of reclaiming my body as a positive thing through the metaphor of national parks and natural beauty, I want to explore adding the stories, ideas and personal experiences of other female identifying folks to create a collage of personal histories where we are encouraged as a community to embrace our own and others’ unique personal beauty.

About Stedroy and Tessa’s Research

Stedroy and Tessa find they are connected through their love of Hip Hop dance and culture. Having both been raised in the prairies with vastly different histories, they are excited about this opportunity for creative research as it allows them each to work outside their respective communities. In the spirit of exchange and reciprocity, they intend to create solos for one another with a focus on the role freestyle/improvisation plays in their performance and choreographic practices.

Young Lungs Dance Exchange’s Research Series is generously supported by Manitoba Arts Council and Winnipeg Arts Council.