New Intergenerational Project

Initial research phase supported by the City of Vancouver Cultural Programs and a partnership with The Dance Centre.
This is a work-in-progress. Inverso is presently reaching out for funding for the next potential performance phase.

THE TEAM

Our intergenerational team spanning 50 years from 26-76!

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.
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Barbara Karmazyn

Bio

Barbara 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 graduating in 1983. Wanting to share her love of dance, she began teaching creative dance to young children. This led to a career as an expressive arts facilitator, with people of all ages and abilities. Since retiring in 2012, Barbara has been dancing with Roundhouse Ageless Dancers.  Two years later, she and other dancers from that group, created The Monday Dancers, and formed a partnership with the Roundhouse in 2022.  While Barbara has been a familiar dancing presence at music festivals and outdoor events for decades, this will be her first professional performance.

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. 
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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.

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. 

Justin Calvadores

Bio

Justin Calvadores is a freelance contemporary dance artist based on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. They grew up on Treaty No. 1 territory; at the age of they 16 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. 
As freelance performer Justin has worked with companies such as Nicole Von Arx, Mile Zero, Wen Wei Dance, Inverso Productions, and FakeKnot. Currently, they are continuing to create and perform work with creators such as CoErasga, Isak Enquist, Dumb Instrument Dance, Heather Myers, Alyssa Favero, Kelly McInnes, Mascall Dance and The Falling Company.