As we conclude this year’s performances of Privilege At Home, we talk with Erika Mitsuhashi, who has been performing the work with Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa. What do people not realize? I’m not 100% certain whether people fully realize that Jennifer has been working super academically with the material. She's really working so specifically with different systems in the body and creating like full alphabets with a movement for each different kind of note - whole note, half note, quarter note, 16th note. Each one is completely tied to a somatic impulse.  I think the end result has an extra layer o ..read more

We’re thrilled to be working with the remarkable Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa on Privilege@Home. She talks with Susan McKenzie. Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa in concert Photo credit: SD Holman Let’s talk Beethoven. I’m known as a contemporary music pianist. But what most people don't know is that Beethoven is my favourite composer.  And the Waldstein is a piece I’ve lived with for quite a long time - I performed it for my graduating recital for my Bachelors degree, and I've been wanting to come back to it for many, many years. A perfect opportunity! “The Waldstein” is its’ English nickname but its’ German ni ..read more

MascallDance catches up with Ralph Escamillan just as he premieres a new trio, All for You, at the EDAM Choreographic Series. Don’t miss this opportunity - TIX to RALPH's LATEST WORK HERE Ralph is also currently in rehearsal for MascallDance’s Privilege At Home. Privilege At Home brings the performance to you, mobile dance solos choreographed by Jennifer Mascall and accompanied by Beethoven: Sonata in C Major Op. 53 "Waldstein" (excerpts) with dancers Ralph Escamillan, Eowynn Enquist and Erika Mitsuhashi choreographed by Jennifer Mascall. We bring the performance to you, transported by pick-up ..read more

(he him) Travis Bernhardt, Japanese/Taiwanese/settler by way of the UK, is a magician and improviser from Vancouver, BC. He feels humbled and honoured to have been invited to provide interpretations for BLOOM, and looks forward to sharing a cogent, nuanced analysis informed by a lifetime of not knowing anything about dance ..read more

Jenn Griffin (she/her) Jenn Griffin is a first generation settler of British descent and an uninvited guest on the lands of the Coast Salish peoples originally from Edmonton, Alberta. Jenn is a Vancouver-based actor and playwright and a frequent collaborator of MascallDance. Recent theater credits include the role of “Jean” in The Arts Club production of “Good People,” and the role of “Jess” in Neil Labute’s “A Second of Pleasure,” for “Take 5” at The Cultch and most recently appeared in the ensemble cast of Theatre Conspiracy’s “Victim Impact,” by Tim Carlson, also at The Cultch and Eliza ..read more

BLOOM 2021 presents: 7PM, December 16, 17, 18 2021 at Left of Main, 211 Keefer Street, 2nd Floor. Tickets are limited. To reserve yours, please email: operations@mascalldance.ca Introducing choreographer Eowynn Enquist: “It’s interesting to realize together how big the choreographic role is; it’s really a many-layered process. There are so many roles a choreographer has; each stage of development requires a different role.” Eowynn Enquist, Bloom choreographer (she/her/hers) In Bloom, Eowynn Enquist is presenting her work “How to share weight, when you weigh differently” and is joined in per ..read more

BLOOM 2021 presents: 7PM, December 16, 17, 18 2021 at Left of Main, 211 Keefer Street, 2nd Floor. Tickets are limited. To reserve yours, please email: operations@mascalldance.ca Introducing choreographer Marisa Gold: Marisa Gold (she/her/hers) is contributing a video choreography to BLOOM. It premieres in the BLOOM VIDEO SERIES, Spring 2022. Janelle Reed joins Marisa in performance. Marisa is an empathetic multidisciplinary artist with a passion for all things soulful. With a BFA in dance (SFU), certificate of completion from The Ailey school Independent Study program (NYC), and The Graham ..read more

BLOOM 2021 presents: 7PM, December 16, 17, 18 2021 at Left of Main, 211 Keefer Street, 2nd Floor. Tickets are limited. To reserve yours, please email: operations@mascalldance.ca Introducing choreographer Alexa Mardon: (they/them/theirs) Alexa's practice includes making dances, writing about dances, dancing, teaching, and community actions, often overlapping and blurring together. Dance is the practice through which they sense and engage with the world around them, build nervous-system resilience, and gather in creative resistance and joy with existing and emergent community. @movement_study i ..read more

BLOOM 2021 presents: 7PM, December 16, 17, 18 2021 at Left of Main, 211 Keefer Street, 2nd Floor. Tickets are limited. To reserve yours, please email: operations@mascalldance.ca Introducing choreographer Ralph Escamillan: \“BLOOM and the space Mascall Dance/Jennifer is able to make has made it possible to procure a sense of creative freedom and possibility. I feel that what I am supported with is just the right amount, allowing myself to have agency to explore what I am interested in - in whatever way that might culminate. Jennifer's mentorship as a person that also works with costumes and o ..read more

BLOOM 2021 presents: 7PM, December 16, 17, 18 2021 at Left of Main, 211 Keefer Street, 2nd Floor. Tickets are limited. To reserve yours, please email: operations@mascalldance.ca Introducing choreographer Erika Mitsuhashi: "Having a platform that provides me with time and an audience to interface with my work at a critical moment of development is invaluable. I am inspired by Jennifer's expansive practice and to re-visit old ideas and follow research threads. Mascall Dance has provided my practice with support that is essential and meaningful." ERIKA MITSUHASHI (she/her/hers) ERIKA MITSUHASHI ..read more