Experience and immerse yourself in the three dance artists of the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts 2017-18 season. Get to know each artist and their process in the creation of a new dance piece. Learn about their pursuit of creativity and research process as they participate in the 2017/18 residency at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. Salome Nieto & Eduardo Meneses/pataSola dance
Alvin Erasga Tolenti
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Amber Funk Barton/the response. Workspace III October 26-28, 2017. Founded in 2008, the response. is a project based contemporary dance
company dedicated to the creation and presentation of contemporary dance. It is a home for its founder and artistic director, Amber Funk Barton, to create dance to original music that is physically impressive and of artistic excellence. Inspiration for the company is the physical potential and the emotional capacity of the human body. Works created blend contemporary technique with the energy of urban culture and aim to go beyond the focus of form to induce cinematic experiences using the body to create pictures, images, shapes and scenes. the response. keenly aspires to establishment itself as a fixture in the Vancouver
dance community, specifically by providing opportunities for emerging dancers via its developing Apprentice Program as well as professional dance artists in Vancouver and British Columbia. Amber Funk Barton received her training with Goh Ballet Academy, Arts
Umbrella, the Banff Centre Dance Training and Ballet British Columbia’s Mentor Program. After finishing her training she established herself as a Vancouver based independent contemporary dance artist and has worked for the past 16 years dancing professionally for several companies and choreographers. She is also the artistic director of her own contemporary dance company, the response. which she founded in 2008. As a choreographer, Amber’s work has been presented in various venues throughout Vancouver, British Columbia, nationally and as far as Seattle, WA and Cardiff, UK. Amber is also a sought after teacher in contemporary dance and teaches regularly in the lower mainland. In 2016, she launched #dancehappy, a series of free dance classes offered to all bodies regardless of experience. responsedance.com
Salome Nieto & Eduardo Meneses/pataSola dance
pataSola dance was founded in 2013 in Vancouver, Canada by collaborators Eduardo Meneses-Olivar and Salome Nieto. Highly influenced by Realismo Magico and Butoh, pataSola dance’s work intersects the line between the material and spiritual worlds, exploring themes of ritual, myth and spirituality and their significance within contemporary dance. The company has performed in Argentina, Canada, Mexico, Nicaragua and Thailand. pataSola dance strives to produce work that is challenging, provocative and innovative in performance and presentation. Salome Nieto
Co-founder, Choreographer, Dancer
Renowned for her emotionally-charged performances, audiences have
described pataSola co-founder, Salome Nieto, as ethereal, evocative and enchanting. Her work explores the essence of Butoh and the integration of spirituality with her cultural identity. An accomplished dancer and choreographer, Salome has 23 years of specialized Butoh training with internationally-renowned instructors and has danced extensively with Kokoro Dance Company. As well as executing her own works in Vancouver, BC, Salome has performed in Argentina, Mexico, Nicaragua, Thailand, England and Poland. Recent collaborations include projects with Butoh Masters Gustavo Collini-Sartor (Argentina) and Valentin Tzin (Russia), Poet Kagan Goh and Donna Redlick Dance (Canada). Salome Nieto is the recipient of the 2017 Vancouver International Dance Festival Choreographic award. Eduardo Meneses-Olivar
Co-founder, Director
Eduardo Meneses-Olivar discovered the performing arts in his native Colombia and developed his artistic eye studying architecture at Los Andes University. He proceeded to develop his professional repertoire working as a lighting and production designer as well as an artistic director. Credits include The Opera Workshop at Colombia’s Caldas University, the Colombian National Ballet Company and Soledad y Compañia—a multidisciplinary piece he directed inspired by his own photography—B-Floor Theatre at the 2014 International Butoh Festival in Bangkok, Thailand where he also directed and designed Camino al Tepeyac. Eduardo is the recipient of numerous awards and nominations including a Jessie Award for lighting design for the Firehall Arts Centre’s Reading Hebron. Alvin Erasga Tolentino/Co.ERASGA
April 18-21, 2017 Collected Traces and Still Here
“contemporary, progressive, and provocative” - Georgia Straight
Now in it’s 18th season, Co.ERASGA Dance is led by critically acclaimed dancer and choreographer Alvin Erasga Tolentino. An international dance company that supports and contributes to the development and enhancement of contemporary dance globally,
Co.ERASGA continues to seek new and challenging projects that provide opportunities and cross-cultural issues in today’s society. Among its memorable and critically acclaimed dance productions presented in Vancouver includes SOLA, BATO/Stone, MINORI, Volt, She Said, Field, OrienTik/Portrait, BODYGlass, PARADISE/Paradis,
ADAMEVE/Man-Woman, Expose, Colonial, Shifting Geography and most recently Unwrapping Culture. To date, Co.ERASGA has visited over 50 diverse cities and communities outside of Vancouver to share the art of dance.
