EmptyHanded with The Biting School – Lighting Design [2024]
The Firehall Arts Centre
Empty-Handed is a contemporary dance piece that explores the journeys of five cosmic characters through themes of darkness, deception, and greed.
Through expressive movement, choreography and storytelling, the dancers create a world that transcends time and culture. Each character guides the viewer through an emotional arc that honours the essence of their personal revolution.
Middletown with Sticks and Stones Theatre – Projection Design [2024]
Pacific Theatre
Mary Swanson arrives in Middletown ready to start her family in a normal suburb. But her new neighbours see the surreal in the status quo and the outer bounds of the universe in their local garden patch. As Mary connects to her community via the magic and tragedy of ordinary experiences, Middletown dives into the big questions: what are beginnings? How should we end? And how are we supposed to deal with all the stuff in between?
Jade Circle with Jasmine Chen – Projection Design [2024]
Gateway Theatre
Jade Circle is an interdisciplinary solo performance by Jasmine Chen. Through powerful music, captivating movement, and poignant storytelling in Mandarin and English, Jasmine finds her place within the legacy of her matriarchs. Yearning to reconnect with her late grandmother, she embarks on a transformative journey to relearn Mandarin and unearths the lost stories of her grandmother’s past through intimate interviews with her mother.
Entre Chein et Loup with Plastic Orchid Factory – Projection Design [2022/2023/2024]
Montreal Arts Interculturels,Citadel+Compagnie,MileZero Dance,Malaspina VIU
In this solo work, James Gnam embodies multiple layers of the old French “dog and wolf” expression to expose his process of making a solo during a pandemic, but that is not about the pandemic.
On the Cosmic Shore with Erika Mitsuhashi – Projection Design [2022]
The Dance Centre
A meditative performance and installation that explores relational practices of drifting movement and attention between living and non-living performers.
Walking at Night by Myself by Nancy Tam – Live Projection Design [2018-2025]
Music on Main, Fox Cabaret, IndieFest, OpenEars, PuSH Festival
an interdisciplinary collaboration between costume design, projection design, choreographic design, and live-performed octophonically spatialized sound design-responds to the notion of synthesis by utilizing moiré, the interference pattern perceived by the human brain when two repetitive patterns of similar frequencies are overlaid on top of one another. It is also an experimentation in conjuring horror (the cinematic genre) without speaking characters nor plot. Two female forms wander through disquieting and abstracted nocturnal scenes offered by sound and visual design.
K BODY AND MIND by A Wake of Vultures – Lighting Designer [2020/2025]
The Shadbolt, PuSH Festival
A new work of science-fiction created by Vancouver-based interdisciplinary performance collective A Wake of Vultures, led by Siminovitch Prize Protégé Conor Wylie. Originally planned as a live theatre performance, K BODY AND MIND has been re-envisioned as an episodic miniseries for viewing at home. Blending overloaded 90s anime and cyberpunk aesthetics with an off-kilter and mesmerizing minimalist performance style, K BODY AND MIND is an impossible sci-fi epic performed by two bodies in an abandoned 100-year-old theatre.
DUST by Francesca Frewer/Erika Mitsuhashi – Live Projection Design [2018/2019]
The Scotiabank Dance Centre
A thought-provoking contemporary dance piece which incorporates live sound, new media, and striking designs to investigate themes of volatility, change, decay, and the unbound.
are we not drawn onward to new era – Performer/Creator [2018]
Shooting Gallery Performance Cabaret
Piece for performer, led lights, tape players and golden Eagle statue. ‘New Era’ is a cross-wired fever dream of conspiracy and functioning. It is a plot of points full of holes, desperately drawing lines. It tries to build a narrative out of fragments and yet is a caution against making sense of non-sense.
Revolver Festival, The Cultch
An immersive multidisciplinary performance, intimate personal narrative, and theory, Geologic Formations explores the present-unseen: the way socio-political events haunt the individual and collective body.
Decoy by Barbara Adler and ten thousand wolves – Projection Designer [2018]
Chutzpah Festival, Fox Cabaret
A musical journey Decoy, weaving together meticulously crafted folk songs with a poetic narrative. Live music by an 8-piece band, projection and object theatre combine to tell a story about the power of artifice to bring us closer to something real!
Genetic Drift by Pi Theatre – Projection Designer [2017]
Boca del Lupo Micro Performance Series
Meet Gary 3, a human/creature hybrid who has come to visit us from the future to tell us about the circumstances of his life and the world. This is Genetic Drift.
Entertame Me by Oliver Pollack – Performer- Corporeal Mime [2016]
Atelier des Mimes, Theatreforum Kreuzberg
Entertain me! We want to be entertained. But what does it matter to us? What attitude do we have? Where is our indomitable core? Lulled by illusion.
PKD Workshow by A Wake of Vultures – Writer/Performer [2014]
Shift 1Act Festival, The Cultch
March 2nd 1974 Philip K Dick, science fiction writer, modern day Cassandra, and amphetamine philosopher, has a moment of existential gestalt. This fractional experience tore away the veil of perception and he was flooded with sensorial, conceptual and perceptual data. 2-3-74 as he came to call this moment and its aftershocks so overthrew his concept of being that for the remaining 30 years of his life he undertakes it’s contemplation, analysis and interrogation. The result of this work is almost 8000 pages of notes and theories, which in 2011, years after his death, was edited and published by his friends in the book The Exegesis of Philip K Dick.
For PKD Workshow this book is the bible.