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  • Progress Lab 1422 William Street Vancouver, BC, V5L 2P7 Canada (map)

FORMations: Movement and Filmmaking Jam
Saturday November 9 at 1:00pm - 5:00pm PST

With: Josh Oncgol, Miguel Maravilla, danielle Mackenzie Long and Erin Lum 
Location: Progress Lab, 1422 William St. Vancouver

This event is free to attend!

Our annual movement and filmmaking jam returns! Participants will create and present their own short movement-based film by the end of this workshop. 

FORMations is open to all movement and film backgrounds and experience levels, prioritizing participants between the ages 15 to 25. All you need to bring is yourself, comfortable clothes to dance in, and a phone with space to record a few videos. Expect to play the roles of dancer and filmmaker in this jam and see your ideas come to life!

Inspired by his current piece, “The E.N.D: Energy Never Dies”, Josh will lead an exploration of the street dance concept of the Cypher; a communal gathering of creative exchange and energetic flow. F-O-R-M Associate Artistic Directors Erin and danielle will facilitate an exploration of how moving bodies relate to the lens of the camera, in response to the movement of the Cypher. Miguel will support this collaborative exchange with live improvised music to interact and respond to.

*Please note: you do not need access to a smart phone in order to participate!

Accessibility Measures for this Event

Mask Mandate

Throughout the festival wearing masks is highly encouraged for all events when possible as a practice of collective community care. With the festival taking place during the peak of flu season, we strive to be able to gather in groups while being mindful of our own and others’ health needs. We will have masks available on site throughout the festival. For events with smaller gathering spaces air purifiers will be on site to assist with providing clean air and circulation. We are encouraging Masks by:

  • All staff will be wearing masks throughout the entirety of the festival events, only when we are speaking on a stage at a distance from folks during speeches/talkbacks will we remove our masks to help support our ASL interpreters and lip readers

  • Printed signage will be posted throughout our event spaces, as well as included in our screening slides that play on loop prior to the start of each screening stating "Masks Highly Encouraged"

  • We will have volunteers stationed before our box office and will be handing out masks to each individual who enters the space

  • Currently we have surgical masks available for audiences, and are in the process of trying to secure more masks that are either N95 or KN95 (we currently do not have these confirmed)

** 2 air purifiers will be in the space at this event
** Stim Toys will be available to borrow

Meet the facilitators:

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Josh Ongcol
Josh Ongcol

Josh Ongcol (he/they) is a Dubai born, Queer, Filipinx dance artist, interested in the ways tenderness manifests in my body, and its receptivity to deep connection, wisdom, and transformation. He is interested in ways we could communicate through multiple medium of art/language. With this, He hopes to unravel the concept of “home” and “KAPWA” and “belonging” through embodied memory. Josh continues to be influenced by streetdance and underground dance cultures such as vogue house and street styles and has trained in contemporary through Modus Operandi.

In his current work called “The E.N.D: Energy Never Dies", he collaborates with local musicians and dancers, exploring the streetdance concept of the Cypher; a communal gathering of the creative energetic flow; an organization of dance and gatherings and what it means to be together in moments of exchange and transformation.

Miguel Maravilla
Miguel Maravilla

Miguel Maravilla is a first-generation Filipino immigrant, essayist, self-taught artist, musician, sound engineer, and activist born in Manila, Philippines, and currently residing on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations.

danielle Mackenzie Long
danielle Mackenzie Long

I use a lowercase “d” because I desire to navigate the world by easing into spaces. I go by my full name to acknowledge my maternal lineage.

danielle Mackenzie Long, a queer emerging artist, resides on the stolen and unceded territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm nations. They seek to use new media and film to liberate gender non-conforming dance artists to create work that surpasses gendered bodies through various means of visual presentation and audience access. 

At this time their creative practice is being expanded through engagements with Action at a Distance/Vanessa Goodman, Co.ERASGA/Alvin Erasga Tolentino, Shion Skye Carter, steph cyr, Kaili Che, and self checkout/Lamont. Spaces they have been in recent residencies with include Toronto Dance Theatre (Pilot Episodes) and New Works. As the current Associate Artistic Director of the Festival of Recorded Movement (F-O-R-M), they work alongside a small team of creatives, supporting the seeds of creations by Youth and Emerging artists whose works speak to the theme of “recorded movement.” Occasionally danielle also studies Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia with the aspiration to infiltrate and challenge the academic world by navigating it with an emphasis on curiosity, refusal, and rest.

Photo credit: Samanatha Bush

Erin Lum
Erin Lum

Erin Lum (she/her) is an emerging filmmaker, dance artist, and writer based on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples (Vancouver, BC). As F-O-R-M’s youngest staff member, she is passionate about fostering youth-engaged spaces in the arts. 

Erin’s instinctual love for movement is a vessel to explore other creative practices. She previously published 25 interviews with Canadian dance artists as the blog writer of Story Bloom. In 2020, she was a F-O-R-M Commissioned Artist. Her first dance film Zì Jǐ premiered at F-O-R-M’s 5th festival and has since screened at over 11 film festivals, including a weeklong projection onto the National Arts Centre building in Ottawa. Her second short, Something To Forget Me By, premiered in 2022. Erin is currently pursuing her undergrad degree in Sociology and Communications at Simon Fraser University. In 2022, Erin showcased a multi-media project Just By Existing in a group exhibition at the Art Gallery at Evergreen. She is working on expanding this project into a documentary film with the support of DOXA Documentary Festival.

Photo credit: Nicole Yen

Venue Accessibility

Progress Lab
1422 William St, Vancouver, BC, V5L 2P7
Wheelchair accessible via elevator | Wheelchair accessible washrooms on site

For more information about our accessibility measures, visit our FAQ page.

Earlier Event: November 8
Opening Screening: Where We Dwell
Later Event: November 10
THE GET-DOWN: Ladies Cypher