IN DEVELOPMENT 

InTErIOR/Landscape (2026)

Running time: 70 mins, no intermission

Performers on stage: 6 

Team on the road: 8

Venue: Blackbox / alternative spaces

Premiere: January 2026, partners Music on Main + PuSH International Arts Festival

“Interior/Landscape” shifts between communal experiences of joy and grief, balancing the delicate nature of shared experience and what it means to build intimacy with our surroundings. The work is filled with the complexity and devastation of what it takes to feel a communal sense of joy. Melding somatic content with a live sound score generated by six dance artists, physical and sonic compositions are woven together to create a performative environment. “Interior/Landscape” utilizes generative systems to compose the bodies and the performance space. The audience is seated on three sides of the stage; they will witness the performers' physical, emotional and sonic transformation throughout the work, making them an integral part.  “Interior/Landscape” is part two of a trilogy of three works titled "When We Sing Together." It will continue the evolving practice of mixing both sonic and physical layering to create a distinct performative world. 

OUTREACH + TEACHING

Vanessa loves to exchange with people through facilitating workshops and classes. She has taught professional, pre-professional and community classes locally, nationally and internationally. She has recently taught at Simon Fraser University, Modus Operandi, The Vancouver Training Society and Lamon Dance. She has also facilitated for the Roundhouse Community Dancers, Trinity Laban’s Co-Lab (UK) and been on faculty at The Banff Centre for the Arts (Alberta).

Workshop/class description:

Throwing Bones, Sheading Salt

Exploring what is real and imagined, my class plays with the possibility of the body's capacity. Working with generative systems, we will work through anatomical organisation and curiosity of state. This class begins with guided self-TLC to ground us before moving into folding, softening, sliding bones, expanding and compressing. Using scale and architecture to explore inner and outer landscapes, we will move through concave and convex systems to uncover different layers of ease and effort.