The Team
At F-O-R-M, our staff work in a collaborative working model. While everyone has their titles and responsibilities, we work collectively to make decisions, and sometimes support tasks which fall outside of our areas to support one another.
Associate Artistic Director (2021-22)
Youth Curator (2020-21)
Commissioned Artist (2019)
You’ll often find me…
• Co-creating, co-crafting, and co-curating festival programming
• Mentoring and transferring knowledge to nurture our next generation of artists and leaders
• Developing creative yet functional methods for organizing, archiving, and operating
• Dancing with words (aka. chasing grants)
Tamar Zehava Tabori (she/her) dances, creates videos, and contributes behind the scenes in the arts. With a BFA from Montreal's Concordia University, her artistic career has taken her across various stages and screens, both nationally and internationally. Tamar is grateful to have been deeply influenced by divergent perspectives on dance and movement, having worked with and for artists and companies such as Petrikor Danse, Kivanç Tatar, Amber Downie-Back, Shion Skye Carter, Scout Heckel, Bradley Eng, Jeanette Kotowich, Company 605, and The Falling Company.
Tamar's career is marked by commissions for performance, production and curation roles, aligning with her desire to share and grow within different creative capacities. Her experimental short films have screened at over 20 festivals worldwide, even finding unconventional temporary homes like building facades and public transit screens. With a personal value of defying norms and embracing movement as a constant theme, she's proud to be a part of F-O-R-M (Festival of Recorded Movement) as its Artistic Director.
Tamar is currently an uninvited guest finding inspiration and grounding on the stolen and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples; namely the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.
Photo by Erin Lum
Youth Programmer (2022-23)
Programming Assistant (2021)
Commissioned Artist (2020)
You’ll often find me…
• Curating short films and coordinating festival programming
• Supporting artists on their filmmaking journeys through the Commissioning Fund Program
• Leading outreach activities to engage youth and the street dance community
• Connecting with my youth!
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 by Sophia Mai Wolfe
Programming Assistant (2023)
Commissioned Artist (2021)
Short Film Artist (2020)
Submission Screening Assistant (2019)
You’ll often find me…
• Leading the Commissioning Fund Program by programming artist workshops, coordinating resources and being a listening ear to help bring Youth and Emerging artists ideas to life
• Supporting the curation of the Short Films Program
• Expanding my knowledge of disability justice in relationship to artistic practices
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 by Erin Lum
Associate Producer (2022)
You’ll often find me…
• Developing and implementing sponsorship plans and outreach
• Coordinating and executing festival activities
• Creating and maintaining budgets and payment schedules
• Supporting with grant writing
• Making lists and checking them twice
Chiara Lucchetta (she/her) is an independent dance artist, writer, movement instructor, and arts organizer. Chiara’s artistic journey has led her down many paths, including art curation, dissemination, presentation, production, and performance in commercial and fringe settings, such as dancing with the A-Team for the Toronto Argos and taking part in a commissioned choreographic residency with The Garage (Toronto, 2020).
Driven by cross-disciplinary working practices and passions, Chiara has trained in a variety of dance styles, journalism, creative writing, and holds certifications in various mind-body techniques including yoga, pilates, and mental health crisis response. She draws on the experience and knowledge she has cultivated from her various roles to facilitate community programming that provides supportive and empowering spaces for creative beings: everyone.
Enamored by the interconnective flow of the cosmos, Chiara’s creative practices and daily ruminations are driven by a curiosity to explore how her facets can exist together and inform one another. She is also the founder of Purple Glow Collective, a Toronto-based organization facilitating multifaceted spaces that encourage the cross pollination of creative practices and processes. Chiara believes that simply existing is a creative act and lives, works, and plays from this ethos.
Photo by Erin Lum
Graphic Designer Intern (2022)
You’ll often find me…
• Browsing graphic websites for inspiration and adding them to my collection.
• Photographing beautiful typefaces I encounter on the street.
• Laying out countless brand visual concepts for F-O-R-M in Illustrator on my laptop.
Jingyi 景怡 (She/They) is a visual and user experience designer, and currently pursuing her master’s degree of interaction design at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
Born and raised in Tianjin, China, and currently based in Vancouver, BC (the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ peoples), Jingyi’s immigrant journey has instilled in a deep awareness of cultural adjustment and self-identity adaptation. This experience fuels her passion for empowering clients not only through striking visual communication designs but also through user-centric and problem-solving design solutions. Jingyi is currently passionate about collecting and digitally archiving objects that hold history around her, believing this to be a fundamental aspect of the interaction between humans and objects. In her professional practice, she explores and applies the transformative power of brand design to benefit the community. She developed and equipped these skills during her career at F-O-R-M, and she actively assists local clients in enhancing their product visuals through collaboration.
Technology and Interaction Artist in Residence (2023-24)
Short Film Artist (2020)
Jasmine Liaw is an emerging interdisciplinary artist in contemporary dance performance, new media art, and experimental film. Bicoastal, she is based in so-called Toronto and Vancouver. Evidenced in collaboration and community, her work leans into transcultural narratives intersecting her Hakka diaspora, and queer theories in temporality and ecology. She holds a Certificate Diploma with Distinction from the Conteur Academy in Toronto. She recently completed a two-year artist-in-residence with F-O-R-M Recorded Movement Society’s Technology & Interaction Program. Recent presentations include Images Festival, The Asian Arts & Culture Trust with Holt Renfrew and Urbanspace Gallery, Gallery 44, Northwest Film Forum, Charles Street Video, XINEMA, Vector Festival, Pleasure Dome, and more. In 2023, she received the Emerging Digital Artist Award presented by EQ Bank and Trinity Square Video for her experimental film work, xīn nī 廖芯妮.
With a passion for digital marketing and communications, Jasmine’s excited to be joining F-O-R-M’s team as their 2024 Communications Coordinator!
Photo by Jasmine Liaw
Workshop Facilitator (2024)
Artistic Consultant (2024)
Founding Artistic Director (2015-2022)
You’ll often find me..
• Writing grants, mentoring and supporting current staff and our 2024 commissioning fund artists
My name is Sophia Mai Wolfe (she/her/hers), I am a queer, Japanese-Canadian independent artist whose practice is ever-changing. My practice moves and connects me to live performance, video documentation, curation, festival programming, editing, filmmaking, and directing. I am a grateful guest of what is colonially know as Vancouver on the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish),and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. My dance practice has led me to performing and touring internationally with companies and independent choreographers such as Company 605, Co-Erasga, Chick Snipper, Cindy Mochizuki, Lisa Mariko Gelley, Kelly McInnes, Antonio Somera, Zahra Shahab, The Only Animal and New World Theatre.
I hold an MA in Screendance from the London Contemporary Dance School, and am the founding Artistic Director of F-O-R-M (Festival Of Recorded Movement). Through completing my MA, I became interested in making work that challenges and slows our attention. I use film and dance to invite connection and empathy towards the bodies we witness on screen, as well as invite sensation within the bodies of those witnessing. I work independently and collaboratively with artists and communities to engage audiences in work that moves them through embodied and imaginative experiences.
I am also involved with videocan as a video archivist and on the research team which is an online archive of Canadian performance directed by Patrick Blenkarn and Milton Lim. I have also curated screenings for New Blue Dance Festival (Toronto), Vancouver Art Gallery, DOTE (Vancouver) and Body+Camera (Chicago).
Photo by Erin Lum
2024 Artistic Committee
Bona Lee is an emerging Korean-Canadian multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto, Canada. As a musician and lover of all art mediums, she is passionate about creating artistic works surrounding the internal human experience. At the age of 14, Bona started an arts magazine and media platform called ONEUL ZINE, which grew to releasing multiple issues and collaborating with artists worldwide including from the United States, England, France, India, and Australia. In addition to running an art magazine, Bona is passionate about artistic exploration, which led to her debut short film “PULSE” premiering through F-O-R-M's Mini Commissions Program in 2023.
Photo by Emilee Stewart
Brandon Wint is an Ontario-born poet, spoken word artist, educator and multi-disciplinary storyteller based in western Canada. For more than a decade, Brandon has been a sought-after touring performance poet, having shared his work all over Canada, and internationally at festivals and showcases in the United States, Australia, Jamaica, Latvia and Lithuania. Brandon is ever-grateful for the power of poetry as a spiritual technology and social force. He is devoted to using poetry as a tool for refining his sense of justice, love, and intimacy. Brandon Wint's poems and essays have been published in The Ex Puritan, Event Magazine, Arc Poetry Magazine, and Black Writers Matter, among other places. Divine Animal (Write Bloody North, 2020) is his debut collection of poetry. His debut film, My Body Is A Poem/The World Makes With Me screened at DOXA documentary film festival and Reelworld Film Festival in 2023.
Adam Smith (he/him) is a Calgary-born, interdisciplinary artist. He is a founding member of the Calgary-based All Styles Dance crew Blasé, and was a commissioned artist in F-O-R-M 2023. Adam is currently enrolled in the Music & Sound program at SFU, his most recent focus has been on deconstructing and exploring the relationship between movement and sound. Adam hosts a yearly event, titled -/30, which challenges artists to create new work, daily, for 30 days. He is currently working to expand -/30 to function as a platform for anonymous artists. Adam's music can be found under the pseudonym Godfreed.
Photo by Rowan Adams
Workshop facilitators
Sarah Wong (she/they) is an emerging writer, choreographer, and interdisciplinary artist based in Vancouver, Canada on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Her work emerges from lived experiences as a queer and disabled 2nd generation Chinese-Canadian, focusing on archival processes and accessing embodied intergenerational knowledge to trace relationships between identity and lineage. Their practice makes space for the multiple, creating work that spans performance, site-specific installation, textiles, poetry, film, and zines. Sarah approaches access as a creative practice that is inextricably tied to movements for justice and collective liberation. They are devoted to cultivating practices of care, creating and facilitating spaces for bodies to rest.
Image description:
A selfie taken by Sarah, a Chinese person in her twenties with lightly tanned skin and black hair with neon green highlights, cut into a mullet. They wear a dark green tank top to match their highlights, dangly rock earrings, a necklace with a rock (they really like rocks), and a black KN95 cone-shaped mask to protect them from breathing in viruses and wildfire smoke. She stands in front of a white wall and looks straight into the camera, her face aglow with summer sweat.
Joshua Lam (he/him) is an emerging Creative Producer, Director, and Writer working in the Vancouver Film Industry. He contributes to the community as the Lead Creative Producer for Vancouver Asian Film Festival’s [VAFF] Mighty Asian Movie-making Marathon [MAMM], a program that helps support Asian-Canadians in film. He has also completed his 2021 - 2022 Canadian Media Producers Association [CMPA] producing mentorship with Brightlight Pictures in development and production of Feature Film and TV. Josh continues to develop his skill in sharing comedic & dramatic stories in the intersection of self-identity, queerness, family, relationships, and culture.
Sasha J. Langford makes sounds, writings, and intermedia performance works that investigate how bodies attune to one another across varied historical and social conditions. In her musical collaborations with choreographers and media artists, as well as her solo live performance practice, Sasha's work has been presented at Ehkä-Kutomo (Turku, FI), FestivALT (Kraków, PL), Lines of Flight Festival of Experimental Music (Dunedin, NZ), Ende Tymes (Brooklyn, NY), Suoni Per Il Popolo (Montreal, QC), and the International Noise Conference (Miami, FL), among other venues. As a writer and thinker, Sasha has published critical texts and delivered public talks through Access Gallery, About A Bicycle, Charcuterie, The School of Making Thinking, and the Vancouver Institute for Social Research. Sasha is Faculty at Columbia College, where she teaches media and cultural studies on occupied xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ territories known as Vancouver, BC.
Workshop Facilitator
Artistic Consultant
Nancy Lee 李南屏 is a Taiwanese-Canadian media artist, curator, and cultural producer renowned for their interdisciplinary works. They ventured into XR with the 2017 360 dance film "Tidal Traces," produced by the NFB, and co-created "Telepresence" in 2018, blending VR with live performance. Lee's art has been showcased internationally at Cannes, SXSW, MUTEK (Montreal & Japan), Centre Phi, and the Berlin Film Festival.
Dedicated to community engagement, Lee teaches XR workshops at IM4 Media Lab and supports artists at the Festival of Recorded Movement. They co-founded Chapel Sound, an electronic music and art collective, and CURRENT, a multidisciplinary initiative supporting underrepresented artists. Additionally, they serve as a board director for Love Intersections and Normie Corp, uplifting queer voices in media arts and music.
Lee operates a vibrant studio in Vancouver's Chinatown, serving as a creative hub for cross-genre performances, workshops, and artist residencies. As a community consultant, Lee collaborates with Creative BC and Music BC, providing grant coaching and outreach to improve funding accessibility. Their commitment to promoting gender equity in the music industry is underscored by their participation in the Keychange EU Innovator program across Canada and Europe. They have offered programming consultation to VIFF and MUTEK Forum.
As a Sundance Institute New Frontier Alumni and 2022-2023 artist-in-residence at the Society of Arts and Technology (Montreal), Lee collaborates with Kiran Bhumber on "UNION," a speculative sci-fi exhibition exploring 3D scanning/printing, XR, and multi-channel A/V dome theatre performance. Recently, they shifted focus towards performing dance and composing in their new show “OSMOSi: 422 Unprocessable Entity,” and a documentary project titled "Woven Memory" alongside Soledad Muñoz.
Past Staff
Volunteer Coordinator (2017)
Volunteer / Box Office Coordinator (2018)
Associate Producer (2019-2020)
Creative Producer (2022)
My F-O-R-M experience has been wide-ranging, moving from Volunteer Coordinator to Creative Producer over a 6 year period. The time in-between was infused with high-quality mentorship from Kristina Lemieux and loads of practical hands-on experience; these were opportunities to prove my own capability to myself, watching in real time as my skillset grew from timidity into the type of confidence that only comes through doing the thing. This year, I am grateful to Chiara for giving me the opportunity to step into a mentorship role as I passed on my knowledge, and feel that the future of the festival is in the innovative and capable hands of the next generation. My time at F-O-R-M introduced me to the radical possibilities within non-profit leadership structure and empowered me to find pathways to integrate my passion for numbers, data and bookkeeping within my artistic practice.
Kayla (she/they) is a human being made of approximately 7 octillion (7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) atoms. Kayla organizes her atoms to laugh, cry, drink coffee, rest, create dance, hike, and produce shows and festivals.
She is a second generation settler from the Menno Colony in Chaco, Paraguay via her maternal side. Born on the unceded, ancestral and traditional Stó:lō, Kwantlen, and Nuxwsa’7aq (Nooksack) territories (Abbotsford, B.C.), they now reside on the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) territories (Vancouver, B.C.).
I am currently working towards becoming a Holistic Bookkeeper specializing in arts/non profit/charity bookkeeping and financial education for artists from a trauma-informed and embodiment lens, and am in the research process for a new interdisciplinary movement score work.
Chimgee Mendee (she/her) is a community-driven creative from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, based on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples (Vancouver, BC). She holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of British Columbia with a double specialization in Marketing and Operations & Logistics.
As a continuing love letter to the communities in this city that make it feel less cold and distant and much warmer, kinder, and softer, she created and curates @hotmothertruckers, a “Vancouver” events page where QTBIPoC events are prioritized. She enjoys designing delicious and disconcerting graphics for the page. Since December 2021, she has gathered and shared community events every week with a dedication to celebrating the expression and action of community, how we come together, what we create for each other, and how we build with and for our full selves.
To recognize and support artists at university, she co-founded exposure UBC, the student organization of UBC Arts & Culture, which promotes emerging artists while pushing minority voices to the forefront and challenging colonial frameworks. She has since worked in research, public programming, and marketing & communications.
New to the F-O-R-M team, She is honoured and delighted to be a part of F-O-R-M’s unique mission in marrying the practices of both film and movement and supporting youth + emerging artists in exploring the artforms.
Photo by Sophia Wolfe
Kaila Bhullar (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist and experimental filmmaker based in the stolen traditional territories of three Local First Nations: the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) tribes.
Bhullar specializes in editing, photography, mixed media, and audiovisual works. With a particular interest in abstraction and digitally-based art forms, they use art-making as an introspective tool that explores various internal dispositions. These inquiries into the self often manifest as collages of varying forms and multimedia installations. Some of Bhullar’s recent projects include I Spy…2022 (A Disposable Camera Project), UNIT/PITT, 2022; Digital Interventions, Massy Arts Gallery, 2022; Everyone is Happening Always, Audain Gallery, 2022; and the Small File Media Festival, SFU, 2020. Bhullar is currently completing a BFA at SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts, and is grateful to be collaborating with F-O-R-M as their editor/videographer & technical support intern.
Photo credit: Marwah Jaffar
Kimberly Ho 何文蔚 (all pronouns) is excited to join the F-O-R-M team, as the new Communications Producer! They are an interdisciplinary artist and arts administrator based on the unceded ancestral lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and Tseil-waututh peoples, known as Vancouver. Growing up in a working class immigrant family, Kimberly’s work is nourished by collaborative processes and organically aims to be non-hiecharcial. In their artistic practice, they seek to explore their Hakka diaspora through the physical body and food culture, framing new media as a dimension of queer futurisms, and immersive art as a site of liberation.
Kimberly’s creative output spans across mediums, including theatre, photography, visual arts, new media, fashion styling and writing. Their work “tou saang zhu 土生豬” was presented as part of the group exhibition (Re)Visions at the Art Gallery at Evergreen, and Massy Art Gallery. They were also the recipient of Vancouver Asian Film Festival’s inaugural Richard K. Wong Film Fund and winner of the People’s Choice Award for Best Short Film for their participatory documentary “To Make Ends Meat 心頭肉”. Their acting credits included Theory at Rumble Theatre’s Tremors Festival, the world premiere of House and Home at Firehall Arts Centre, and “No More Parties”, featured in film festival platforms including Toronto International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival and was one of seven films selected to represent Canada for Telefilm’s Not Short on Talent program at Clermont-Ferrand.
Photo by Flory Huang
Hân Phạm (she/her) is an emerging Vietnamese documentary/ experimental filmmaker and artist based in Vancouver. Experimenting with film form and its haptic time/space structure, she wishes to construct a collective healing space for minorities through her films - a healing space carried from the storytelling tradition of re-imagination, conversations, collaboration, and communal experience. Her works have exhibited at Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver Queer Film Festival, Reel Youth Film Festivals, and Vines Arts Festival. She is currently finishing her BFA in Film at Simon Fraser University.
Sammy Chien (Chimerik) is a Taipei born, Vancouver based interdisciplinary media artist, director, performer, researcher and mentor who works with film, sound art, new media and dance/theatre performance. He has studied film (BFA Honours) at Simon Fraser University and developed an expertise in electroacoustic music and digital technology in performance environment. After learning real-time performance softwares from Troika Ranch (NYC/Berlin) he continues his deep interest in interdisciplinary collaborations and forges deep connections between image, sound, and movement. He has collaborated visually, aurally and conceptually in numerous multi-disciplinary projects which have exhibited across Canada, Western Europe, and Asia including Centre Pompidou(Paris), Museum of Contemporary Arts Taipei, National Centre for the Performing Arts(Beijing), Hellerau: European Centre for the Arts Dresden. His recent collaboration with Beijing Modern Dance Company includes working with artists such as Wong Kar Wai’s Cinematographer Christopher Doyle, the Father of Rock in China Cui Jian and having lunch with Ai Wei Wei. Sammy has also been involved in research or mentorship in projects that focus on the integration between art, science, technology and spirituality as well as engaging with various community groups such as social activists, low-income residents, mental health, spiritual healing, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ2+, indigenous, multicultural background and youths. Sammy is the Co- Founder/Artistic Director of Chimerik似不像 collective.
Annie (she/her) is an artist and producer primarily working in theatre. She is the General Manager of Groundling Theatre Co. and Communications Producer at Generator. Annie has been spending the pandemic cooking, reading, and escaping to nature as often as possible.
Annie is a third-generation settler by way of Ukraine on her maternal side, Scotland on her paternal side. She was born and raised in the unceded territories of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil- Waututh), and xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) peoples. Annie is currently an uninvited guest on the ancestral territories of the Haudenosaunee, the Wendat, and the ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐗᑭ (Anishinabewaki) in Tkarón:to (where the trees meet the water).
Alger Ji-Liang 梁家傑 (he/him) is an emerging interdisciplinary artist based in Vancouver, BC on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Alger's lens-based works are primarily researched through lived experiences of the body to express individual and communal experiences of navigating identity, grief, and space. He is currently working on community-engaged art and film projects, and a body of movement-based photographic work. Alger thinks a lot about kin and (re)orientations.
Photo Credit: Ciara Kosai
Founding Producers
Led by artistic co-directors Lisa Gelley and Josh Martin, Company 605 is an arts organization based in Vancouver, on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded Indigenous territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. The company is dedicated to producing new dance work through a shared creative process. Inspired by the merging of urban and contemporary forms, 605 places emphasis on movement invention and physically demanding works, valuing collaboration as an essential tool for new directions in dance. 605 is an ongoing exchange between separate people, bodies and ideas, recognizing and celebrating the unique possibilities created in their attempt to co-exist. Through constant collaboration with all involved artists and performers, Company 605 continues to push into new territory and awaken a fresh and ever-evolving aesthetic, together building a highly athletic art form derived from the human experience.
With an expanding repertoire of diverse work, 605 has toured from coast to coast in over 30 cities across Canada, as well as in the US, Central America, Europe and Australia, presented at such notable festivals and venues as: Usine-C (Montréal), Bumbershoot Festival (Seattle), La Rotonde (Québec City), DanceWorks (Toronto), Push International Performing Arts Festival (Vancouver), Live Art Dance (Halifax), The Cultch (Vancouver), The Banff Centre, On The Boards (Seattle), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), New York City Center’s Fall for Dance Festival, American Dance Festival (Durham, NC), Festival PRISMA (Panama), Tempel Kulturzentrum (Karlsruhe, Germany), and Sydney Festival (Australia). Additionally, 605’s short dance films have been shown at over 45 dance-on-screen festivals and events around the world. company605.ca
Photo by David Cooper
Kristina Lemieux (she/her) is an accomplished arts manager with more than 20 years of professional experience. She is also a contemporary dancer. Raised in Treaty 6 territory (rural Alberta), Kristina lived in Edmonton, attending the University of Alberta, for 10 years before heading to Vancouver where her passion for the arts has driven collaboration, creation, and innovation in the Vancouver arts scene for over a decade. After working with Generator in a freelance capacity for several years, Kristina made the move to Toronto in January 2017 to take on the role of Lead Producer of Generator. In Vancouver, Kristina is also the proud co-founder and Creative Producer of F-O-R-M, and continues her work with Dancers of Damelahamid (Coastal First Nations Dance Festival), and her project Scaffold, a coaching and skill development service designed to support performing artists and groups.
Kristina is passionate about generating dialogue in the arts and, to this end, earned a certificate in Dialogue and Civic Engagement from Simon Fraser University. In all that she does she works to support independent artists across performing disciplines in finding ways to make art outside of the currently prescribed modes.
Kristina is an eleventh generation settler on her paternal side, from France, and a first generation settler on her maternal side, from Netherlands.
Photo by Flory Huang
Jenna Kraychy (she/her) is a dance artist and administrator residing on Coast Salish territories including the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) nations, or what is colonially known as Vancouver. In 2016, she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Simon Fraser University in contemporary dance. In the Fall of 2020, Jenna formed Little Fish Productions with Sophie Brassard. Together, they have found joy in creating site-responsive, contemporary dance works. In addition, Jenna is pursuing her Masters in Counselling Psychology at City University. Jenna is excited to be joining F-O-R-M for their 2022 Festival!
Photo by Gaëtan Nerincx