September 3, 2026

A Night of Love

Run Time: 13 minutes

Choreographer(s): Racheal Prince and Brandon Lee Alley in collaboration with the artists

Performers: Nevan Boyden, Shana 愛 Wolfe and Adrian de Leeuw (waiter)

Music / Sound: Brandon Lee Alley / All of Me - New York Jazz Lounge / Se me Vuoi - Cocktail Martino

Costume Design: Racheal Prince 

Lighting Design: Chengyan Boon 

Promptly: Excerpt

Promptly: Excerpt is about Authentic Investigation of Artistic Intelligence and Audience Interaction. These forms of AI are the opposite of artificial. By inviting prompts from the audience, the dancer and musician invite the viewer to co-create a real human experience, with real people, in real time. The performers, with lifetimes of experience in live creation, delight in playing well with others.

Run Time: 15 - 20 minutes

Concept and Performance: Cori Caulfield, Jai Djwa 

Kite

Run Time: 6 minutes 

Choreographer: Virginia Duivenvoorden 

Director: Jerry Trieus

Performer: Brynne Harper

Composer: Sarah Blair

Supported by  The Dance Centre 

In association with  PHT Creative Hub

Associate Producers:  Kay Huang

Linda Blankstein

Title of Work: Lilium

Run Time: 4 minutes 

Choreographer(s): Brandon Lee Alley in collaboration with the artist

Performers: Nevan Boyden 

Music / Sound: Brandon Lee Alley

Costume Design: Racheal Prince 

Lighting Design: Chengyan Boon

Title of Work: Siphonophore

Run Time: 5 minutes 

Choreographer(s): Brandon Lee Alley and Racheal Prince in collaboration with the artists 

Performers: Bryn Bridgen, Nathan Bear
Music / Sound: R. Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48: No 1 - Tatsuki Sasanuma, Théo Fouchenneret / Avant la suite - Alexandra Streliski, Anastasia Kobekina

Costume Design: Saffron Thomas 

Lighting Design: Chengyan Boon 

A Night of Love, Lilium, and Siphonophore offer three distinct glimpses into Dance//Novella’s creative practice, each developed in close collaboration with the performing artists.

A Night of Love highlights the company’s theatrical practice, bringing character, intimacy, and movement together to create a playful exploration of human connection. Lilium shifts toward a more physical movement vocabulary, placing the body and its expressive possibilities at the centre of the work. Inspired by polymorphic organisms, Siphonophore explores connection and fluidity through the relationship between two dancers, shaped by its music and the striking costume design of Saffron Thomas.

Together, the three works move between theatre, physicality, and visual design, reflecting the different ways Dance//Novella approaches movement and performance.

Promptly: Excerpt is about Authentic Investigation of Artistic Intelligence and Audience Interaction. These forms of AI are the opposite of artificial. By inviting prompts from the audience, the dancer and musician invite the viewer to co-create a real human experience, with real people, in real time. The performers, with lifetimes of experience in live creation, delight in playing well with others.

KITE, 6min,. Canada
Directed by Jerry Trieus
A short film about a dancer on a mission to experience flight. The journey is disappointing and filled with challenges. The result is a transformation as the dance artist finds strength through perseverance and ultimately freedom.

Dance//Novella - Racheal & Brandon
 

Racheal Prince and Brandon Lee Alley are Vancouver-based choreographers and Co-Artistic Directors of Dance//Novella, a contemporary dance-theatre company they founded in 2019. Both former artists with Ballet BC, their work brings together movement, sound, design, and theatricality through a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach.

Their choreographic work has been developed and presented across Canada and internationally, with residencies and support from Ballet BC, Dance Victoria, The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, The Polygon Gallery, and The Dance Centre. Their work has been presented through the Vancouver International Dance Festival, Dancing on the Edge, Chutzpah! Festival, SOUND OFF, International Dance Day, and Men in Dance in Seattle.

Their body of work includes When the Walls Come Down, an ASL-integrated dance-theatre work created in collaboration with Deaf artists; STANCE and its reimagining, Soft Animals; Night is the Mother; and The Sound of Disappearing. Their work moves between abstraction and narrative, exploring memory, identity, connection, and the complexity of being human.

Prince and Alley have also created commissioned works for Alberta Ballet and SALT Contemporary Dance, extending their choreographic practice across contemporary dance and ballet-informed contexts.

DANCERS
 

Bryn Bridgen is a dance artist based in Vancouver, BC, and a company artist with Dance//Novella. Her work with the company has included the Banff Centre residency, film projects such as Afterimage, and processes and performances at The Polygon Gallery.  Bryn is also a graduate of the GibneyPRO Professional Certificate Program under direction of Alexandra Wells and Gilbert T. Small II. Here, she worked with Peter Chu, Laja Field, and Lea Ved. As a freelance artist, she has also performed with Ballet Vancouver and Action at a Distance. Bryn engages in interdisciplinary performance contexts that celebrate Indigenous culture, including performances at the JUNO Awards and Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week 2025.

Shana 愛 Wolfe is a Japanese-Canadian freelance dance artist based in Vancouver, on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. She has collaborated with local companies including Company 605, OURO Collective, Dance//Novella and Inverso Productions, as well as independent artists such as Cindy Mochizuki, Lisa Mariko Gelley, Raven Grenier, Anya Saugstad and Shion Skye Carter. She’s had the privilege to perform at local festivals such as Dancing on the Edge, Vines Art Festival, Guelph Dance Festival, Dance Deck, Hold On Let Go, Dance In Vancouver, LIFT and Coastal Dance Festival. Internationally, she has performed at Sadler’s Wells (UK), the Autostadt Theatre in Wolfsburg, and the Tanzbiennale in Heidelberg (Germany). Shana is currently a teacher for Dancing with Parkinson’s Canada and Ballet BC’s MOVE programming. She has been a part of the What Lab team for 3 years as the Studio Operations Coordinator and is currently pursuing a degree in Kinesiology.
 

Nathan Bear (He/Him/His) grew up locally in Langley, BC and began to dance at the age of six. He trained at Tri-City Dance Centre before joining Arts Umbrella’s Graduate Program under the guidance of Artemis Gordon. During Nathan’s education he preformed works by Crystal Pite, Marco Goecke, Johan Inger, William Forsythe, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Ethan Colangelo, Fernando Hernando Magadan and Medhi Walerski. Nathan had the opportunity to expand his education and participate in company summer intensives such as Netherlands Dans Theatre (NDT) and Complexions Contemporary Ballet. He was the recipient of Ballet BC’s Dancers of Today scholarship which allowed him to continue his training and be a representative of his Indigenous culture. Nathan just concluded his second season as an Emerging Artist with Ballet BC and is very excited and grateful to be joining Ballet Vancouver for the 26/27 season.

Nevan Boyden (He/Him) was born in Vancouver, BC, where he trained in the Arts Umbrella Dance Program from the age of five. In 2021, Nevan was accepted into the Arts Umbrella Post Secondary Program, where he was invited to join the Ballet BC Annex program under the direction of Artemis Gordon and Medhi Walerski. Here, Nevan had the opportunity to perform works by choreographers such as Johan Inger, William Forsythe, Crystal Pite, Marco Goecke, Medhi Walerski, Dance Novella, and Rebecca Margolick among others. From 2024 - 2026, Nevan danced with Ballet Edmonton under the direction of Kirsten Wicklund. In October 2025, he was given the opportunity to create a new work, "Open Door Policy", with the mentorship of Fernando Magadan. Nevan is excited to be dancing back home in Vancouver for this season

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Cori Caulfield and Jai Djwa

Cori Caulfield has toured extensively with her “meticulously crafted solos” (The Globe and Mail) having full-length solo evenings, ensemble works, and shorter pieces presented across Canada, the U.S., and in Europe and Asia. Cori has also instructed, choreographed, and lectured for many organizations, both locally and abroad, including her own coriograph theatre and Caulfield School of Dance; Ballet British Columbia (through MovEnt); the response (Amber Funk Barton), Victoria’s Belfry Theatre (for the Electric Company Theatre); and various Canadian universities. From a Guest Artist residency at William Forsythe’s Ballett Frankfurt, Cori toured internationally for over 5 years with Kidd Pivot. She has also performed in the works of other renowned Canadian choreographers including Donald Sales and Cherice Barton, Marie Chouinard, Josh Beamish, Jennifer Mascall, Cornelius Fischer-Credo’s, and Margie Gillis. Cori has worked in professional theatre, high fashion, and performed professionally as a dancer, actor, and singer.

Jai Djwa teaches at Capilano University’s IDEA School of Design, is a BIPOC performance artist, playwright, musician and composer, and sound designer. He has created music for choreographers including Sarah Bild, Trina Eby, Tassy Teekman, Michael Greyeyes, Cameron McMaster, Lisa Hartley, Kelly McKinnon, Lee Anholt, and Emma Secreto; as well as composing music for theatre, film, and television.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the District of West Vancouver through the Community Grants Program and is supported by the City of North Vancouver and the District of North Vancouver through the Arts & Culture Grants Program of the North Vancouver Recreation & Culture Commission.

The Dance Centre proudly supports Dance On The Shore

The Dance Centre is a not-for-profit organization. Our work takes place on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the 

xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

Kite Film Credits 

Choreography Virginia Duivenvoorden 

Directed by  Jerry Trieus

Performance  Brynne Harper

Composer  Sarah Blair

Creative Team:

Ronald Lee

David Chen

Landon Hef

Jared Horst

Supported by  THE Dance Centre Artist Residency  Program 

PHT Creative Hub

Associate Producers Kay Huang, Linda Blankstein

Art Coordinator Candice Harkley

Art Volunteers from Bodwell High School

Virginia Duivenvoorden is a performing artist, choreographer, and educator whose practice spans performance,  film, teaching, and community-engaged dance. Born in the UK and of Irish and English descent, she has lived on Coast Salish Territory since childhood. Trained at Arts Umbrella, SFU, and the European Dance Development Centre (now ArtEZ), she began her career with Karen Jamieson Dance, later performing solo works by Serge Bennathan and Cornelius FischerCredo.  Her choreographic practice emerged while studying in the Netherlands, where she collaborated on dance, installation, and multimedia works  before retiring early from dance  due  to  injury.   After  a  long  recovery Virginia  returned to  dance  professionally in  2017.  She is joyful to have  since  had    the  opportunity  to  work  with  fellow  artists including  Claire French and the team  with re:group, engaging in movement research and collaboration.  Virginia has also  worked with Kay Huang, whose artistic input has been integral to many choreographic explorations. Virginia’s recent projects include Kite, a dance film she choreographed, Seams, in which she plays Seraphina as the lead actor, both  of  which  she  worked  with  filmmaker Jerry  Trieus.  Whose Step..?, is  her latest scripted improv work in development.  Her work,  shaped by interdisciplinary practice and arts education, has been supported by The Dance Centre, the  Vancouver Foundation,  New Works, PHT Creative Hub, United Way Lower Mainland, the District of West Vancouver, and North Vancouver Recreation and Culture.  

Dance there upon the shore; 

What need have you to care 

For wind or water's roar? 

And tumble out your hair 

That the salt drops have wet; 

Being young you have not known 

The fool's triumph, nor yet 

Love lost as soon as won, 

Nor the best labourer dead 

And all the sheaves to bind. 

What need have you to dread 

The monstrous crying of wind?