Borrowed Time
Premiere: October 13th-15th, 2023 / 298 Alexander Street
DANCE VICTORIA January 27th, 2024 /*involving local dancers
UPCOMING PERFORMANCEs: April 29th, 2025
A 50 year range of ages joins us in an exploration of strength and vulnerability through different phases of our lives. This intergenerational project is a special one for Inverso, bringing together professional and community dancers from 26-76 years old. How do our relationships across generations allow us to give in, grow and rebuild? How do the constellations of our families shift as the weight of care teeters over time?
Photos by David Cooper
THE CAST
Our intergenerational cast spanning 50 years from 26-76
Photo: David Cooper,
Creative direction: Daria Mikhaylyuk
Marisa Gold"This work reminds us of the ever-moving flow of existence and how privileged we are, in each stage of life, to bear witness to it." BIO
Marisa Gold is an empathetic multidisciplinary artist with a passion for all things soulful. Movement as a form of expression has been her instinct since the beginning of her memory with poetry, styling, acting, singing and choreographing not too far behind. With a BFA in dance (SFU), certificate of completion from The Ailey School Independent Study program (NYC), and The Graham school 2017/18 Intensive(NYC), Marisa has trained in a wide variety of Modern/Contemporary dance styles. Her professional performance and choreographic experience ranges from modern/contemporary concert dance to experimental street style performance, and musical theatre productions to film and TV work. Marisa's artistic influences are deeply rooted in the heart space of her ancestors. She feels powerful and expansive when she remembers all who have come before her in artistic and self-expression. As a writer, mover, designer and performer, Marisa continues her poetic wandering; delving further with love into the mystery of our collective humanity as well as her own. Its been so beautiful to make supportive connections through time and space with movers of a different life stage. |
Photo: David Cooper,
Creative direction: Daria Mikhaylyuk
Barbara Karmazyn"Audiences will witness the power, the beauty and the tenderness that can occur when dancers are committed to the work, no matter what their age or 'professional' status."
Bio
“It is so inspiring to dance with artists of different ages, and to experience such a high level of trust and mutual respect.” Barbara is a free style dancer who has been dancing on the sacred, unceded and ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil Waututh people, for most of her life. She took her first contemporary dance class at the age of 32 at SFU Centre for the Arts and continued taking dance and theatre classes until graduation. Wanting to share her love of dance, she began teaching creative dance to young children. This evolved to her career as an Expressive Arts Educator, providing dance, storymaking, singing and visual arts workshops and facilitating drum circles. Barbara has danced and played with children and adults, educators and caregivers, people with mixed abilities and seniors with dementia. She has worked in community centres, colleges, conferences, retreat centres, senior centres and care homes, throughout BC. Since retiring in 2012, Barbara has been dancing with The Roundhouse Ageless Dancers, and is one of the founding members of The Monday Dancers in partnership with the Roundhouse. While Barbara has been a familiar dancing presence at music festivals and outdoor events for decades, this will be her first professional performance. |
Photo: David Cooper,
Creative direction: Daria Mikhaylyuk
Daria Mikhaylyuk"It feels so refreshing to move and just be in the space with people from different generations, to feel like we are mutually inspiring each other." BIO
Daria Mikhaylyuk is a Canada-based freelance dance artist and creative director. Interested in cross-border relationships between artistic disciplines - she aims to create dreamlike spaces and realities in the form of choreographies, installations, and video works that explore tensions between public identities and private intimacies and invite the viewer to participate directly in their strains, pleasures and delusions. Daria got to deepen her professional practice through working and collaborating with companies like Vision Impure Compagnie, MascallDance, Kinesis Dance Somatheatro, Dance Victoria, FakeKnot, Wen Wei Dance, Dance//Novella, Inverso Productions, artists like Anya Saugstad, Eowynn Enquist, Diego Romero, Hiroaki Umeda, as well as through her solo projects. Daria is also the founder of the Venus Art Gallery - a project exploring the intersection of movement, video, and new media arts. Her works were presented through platforms like the Shooting Gallery Performance Series, FORM (Festival of Record Movement), Body+Camera festival in Chicago and Jersey City, Remington art Gallery, Dancing on the Edge Festival, and Vernon Public Art Gallery. |
Photo: David Cooper,
Creative direction: Daria Mikhaylyuk
Kerstin Luettich"It was all about a collective group learning, something that made me stronger and definitely more self-confident.
... and it is non-discrimination against age. What more can I ask for?" BIO
I was born and grew up in Berlin, West, at a time when the Wall was still surrounding me. Berlin was a creative laboratory. My entire life I loved to dance and I took as many dance classes as possible in a wide variety. I can truly say that the city had a deep influence on my life. After graduating from High School, I applied for an art program at the Sorbonne in Paris and also for an art education at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. I opted for Berlin. And yet, my sense of security led me to decide to change course after two years and study Political Science and Physical Education at the Free University Berlin, I graduated with a MA in 1989. Parallel, I trained in dance, acquired a teaching certificate ( within my studies a two year dance education program at the Free University Berlin ) and taught courses in modern and jazz dance. Latter was complimentary to a side job of mine - working as a model at danced fashion shows across Europe. Then life changed completely: two kids, a husband and a new start in Canada. After my move to Canada and after our move from Toronto to Vancouver I worked full-time as a program manager at the Institute for European Studies at the University of British Columbia. Only late I rediscovered my love and enthusiasm for dance. After successfully applying for Le Grand Continental (Push Festival) my ‘second career’ in dancing started as I became more and more drawn into the dance scene of Vancouver. |
Photo: David Cooper,
Creative direction: Daria Mikhaylyuk
Justin Calvadores"As a performer, it is a rare opportunity to be able to work with an ensemble of artists who’s ages range 50+ years. I believe that each stage in life carries unique wisdom and a distinct perspective."
Bio
Justin Calvadores (they/them) is a second generation Filipinx, queer freelance contemporary dance artist based in so called “Vancouver” BC, the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. They grew up on Treaty No. 1 territory and at the age of 16 they were introduced to dance through a Filipino led hip hop dance community. Justin completed two years of training with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, and is a graduate of the Arts Umbrella dance program. Justin has danced with Ballet BC as an emerging artist under the direction of Emily Molnar and continued their contemporary dance career with Ballet Edmonton Under the direction of Wen Wei Wang. As freelance artist Justin has worked with companies such as Nicole Von Arx, Kinesis Dance, F-O-R-M, Wen Wei Dance, Mile Zero, Jill Henis, CoErasga, Isak Enquist, Vancouver Poetry House, Dumb Instrument Dance, Heather Myers, Kelly Mcinnes, and Mascall Dance. This season Justin will be performing with companies and artists including Inverso Productions, FakeKnot, Volt 24, Daria Mikhaylyuk, Action at a Distance and The Falling Company. Justin’s own work and creativity is significantly described by their relationship to queerness and exploring liberation. Most recently, Justin has shared their work “Honey”, performed by Shana Wolfe and Alger Liang at Morrow, cultural space of Dumb Instrument Dance. |
Photo: David Cooper,
Creative direction: Daria Mikhaylyuk
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