OUR Team
At FORM, our staff work in a collaborative working model. While everyone has their titles and responsibilities, we work collectively to make decisions, and sometimes support tasks which fall outside of our areas to support one another.
I use a lowercase “d” because I desire to navigate the world by easing into spaces. I go by my full name to acknowledge my maternal lineage.
danielle Mackenzie Long, a queer emerging artist, resides on the stolen and unceded territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm nations. Their legacy at FORM started back in 2019 as a Submission Screening Assistant, to screening their work as a Short Film (2020) and Commission Film Artist (2021), to Programming Assistant (2023) to Artistic Direction. They seek to use new media and film to liberate gender non-conforming dance artists to create work that surpasses gendered bodies through various means of visual presentation and audience access.
Chiara Lucchetta (she/her) is an independent dance artist, writer, movement instructor, and arts organizer. Chiara’s artistic journey has led her down many paths, including art curation, dissemination, presentation, production, publishing, and performance in commercial and fringe settings. Chiara also holds certifications in various mind-body techniques including yoga, pilates, and mental health crisis response. She draws on the experience and knowledge she has cultivated in her role as a somatic practitioner to facilitate community programming rooted in embodied awareness. Her work reflects an ongoing commitment to fostering spaces that weave the personal with the collective. Chiara is interested in how one’s bodily experience can shape and inform how we move through the world in the context of the different roles we hold, inspiring us to work and create from a place of intention and curiosity.
Screening her first short film in (2020) to being FORM’s inaugural Tech & Interaction Artist-in-Residence (2022-2023), Jasmine Liaw (she/her) is an emerging interdisciplinary artist moving fluidly between roles of director, designer, and curator in contemporary dance performance, new media installation, and experimental film. Evidenced in community, Jasmine's practice intersects collaboration-based artistic production and fabrication (screening work both nationally and internationally), visual strategy and marketing, and cultural production across arts organizations such as FORM, Asiatic Itineraries, Xpace Cultural Centre, and Toronto Dance Love-In. Jasmine is a recipient of the 2023 Emerging Digital Artists Award, and a 2025 Interaccess Media Arts Prize finalist and 2026 Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre Steven B. Jung Award recipient.
Adam Smith (he/him) is a Calgary-born, interdisciplinary artist who resides in the unceded, traditional territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Adam's practice is deeply rooted in hip-hop, he grew up b-boying and learned to make music alongside that practice.
Adam is focused on deconstructing and exploring the relationship between movement and sound in both live and recorded works. Through the use of field recordings and sampling, he re-contextualizes sound to achieve a sort of "sound puppetry." In recorded works, this involves the severing and mapping of sound to new bodies; in live performance, this involves giving life to physical gestures, set pieces, and even the stage itself. In his free time, Adam runs NDG, an organization committed to promoting and facilitating anonymity in art. Adam produces music under a pseudonym.
Joshua Brad-Lee Garrido is a Filipino-Canadian filmmaker / interdisciplinary artist from Treaty 7, Mohkinstsis (Calgary, Alberta, Canada), currently residing in Vancouver, British Columbia. They are a recent graduate from the University of Calgary (BComm) and the University of British Columbia (BFA Film Production). Their work explores how the moving image can explore identity & emotionality, amplified by sampling their archive of influences through a sentimental, impressionistic lens. Their film Chrome (2024) has been showcased as part of the 2025 NYU Sports Film Festival, Cannes Indie Shorts Film Festival, FORM Festival of Recorded Movement, and nominated for the Canadian Society of Cinematographers (CSC) Student Cinematography Award. Amor Eterno (2025) is their next upcoming project. They extend all their love towards their friends and family – especially their partner and muse, Kathleen.
Sophia Mai Wolfe(she/her/hers) is a queer, Japanese-Canadian independent artist. She is currently the Organizational Director of Recorded Movement Society and the founder of FORM (Festival Of Recorded Movement). She is a grateful guest of what is colonially known as Vancouver, on the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Her interdisciplinary practice moves through dancing, filmmaking, curation, editing, mentoring youth artists and emerging arts leaders, and, on occasion, acting. Her dance practice has taken her abroad, performing and touring internationally with local companies and independent choreographers.
At the heart of her work is movement, and an ongoing exploration of embodiment, a practice that informs not only her performance and filmmaking, but also her curatorial and administrative roles. She holds an MA in Screendance from the London Contemporary Dance School (2022), and is interested in making films and creating experiences for audiences that challenges and slows our attention. She uses film and dance to invite connection and empathy toward the bodies we witness on screen, as well as sensation within the bodies of those witnessing. She works independently and collaboratively with artists and communities to engage audiences in work that moves them through embodied and imaginative experiences.
Tamar Zehava Tabori (she/her) dances, creates videos, and works behind the scenes in the arts. With a BFA from Concordia University, her career has spanned national and international stages and screens, shaped by collaborations across disciplines and a deep commitment to shared learning.
Tamar is the General Manager of Recorded Movement Society, home to FORM (Festival of Recorded Movement). Over the past six years, she has held many roles within the organization, from Commissioned Artist to Artistic Director. Her work reflects an ongoing interest in collective decision-making, thoughtful infrastructure, and building systems from the ground up, shaped not by conventional templates but by the real needs and values of the people they serve.
Alongside her artistic and administrative practice, Tamar is pursuing a Project Management Certificate at BCIT, driven by a belief that everything is a kind of project: from making a film, to shaping a team, to building new systems of care. She’s interested in how structure can support creativity and how strategy can hold space for values.
Tamar is currently an uninvited guest on the stolen and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples: the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō, Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. She carries deep gratitude for the ability to learn from and be shaped by these lands and their peoples.
Jingyi 景怡 (She/They) is a visual and user experience designer, and currently pursuing her master’s degree of interaction design at Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
Born and raised in Tianjin, China, and currently based in Vancouver, BC (the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ peoples), Jingyi’s immigrant journey has instilled in a deep awareness of cultural adjustment and self-identity adaptation. This experience fuels her passion for empowering clients not only through striking visual communication designs but also through user-centric and problem-solving design solutions. Jingyi is currently passionate about collecting and digitally archiving objects that hold history around her, believing this to be a fundamental aspect of the interaction between humans and objects. In her professional practice, she explores and applies the transformative power of brand design to benefit the community. She developed and equipped these skills during her career at FORM as their Graphic Design Intern (2022) and Designer (2023-2025), and she actively assists local clients in enhancing their product visuals through collaboration.
Artistic Committee
Erin (eh-reen) Montegrejo (she/her) is a visual media artist based in Tkaronto, disciplined in fashion, photography, and film. Her first connection to FORM was in support of a good friend, Tanisha Kumar, working on a 2023 debut in the FORM Festival’s Mini Commissions Program, with their film “BALD GIRL”. As a student at TMU’s School of Fashion, Erin’s creative endeavours are an expansion of their existence as a queer woman of Filipino descent, through the lens of a first-gen immigrant settled in an urban environment. They are devoted to ensuring that the arts are preserved as a safe and equitable space for all underrepresented, aspiring artists. Erin Montegrejo has contributed her creations to the exhibits Making History (2025) and Spectrum (2025). Through their projects, they seek out moments that go beyond the “norm” and push expectations of reality.
fanny kearse is a Black, Queer, Jewish, Disabled multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans performance, writing, and curation. A recovering people pleaser, late bloomer, dreamer, and community tender, their work traces pathways of self-reclamation; where grief becomes a guide, pain opens portals to the divine and joy emerges through the process of unbecoming. In 2021, they won the Harold Green Theatre Monologue Competition, published their debut poetry and prose collection, umi's prayer, in 2023, and are the co-creator of the 2025 TELUS STORYHIVE docuseries Glimmers. They are an artist with the Artists in Residence in Schools (AiRS) program, serve in board leadership with several arts organizations and organize transcendental community gatherings. They live and create with their life and art co-creator, Que, on the unceded, unsurrendered territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
KatchFlow (she/her) is a Barbadian-Canadian dance artist, choreographer, educator, and community organizer. With a strong foundation in both the movement and history of various street and social dance forms, she brings versatility and cultural depth to her work. Drawing from her experience as a performer in front of the camera, she more recently branched into the world of creative direction and film-making. KatchFlow directed a short dance film as a FORM commissioned artist in 2025, as well as one for INNOVATE dance showcase in 2024 and some other short dance concept visuals. KatchFlow is honoured to have been invited to join the Short Film Artistic Committee for the 2026 FORM festival!
Commissioning Fund program Artistic consultants
“Born in Nigeria, Kosi Eze began to hone her creative influence through her love for music at the age of 18. As a young woman, Kosi drew many connections between her ancestral roots and the street dance forms which she became increasingly involved with in 2012 and through which the Enugu native discovered her passion for dance and performance art.
Kosi seeks to promote a knowledge of self and emotional intelligence through her art - as it impacts the way we engage within culture as messengers, leaders and mentors for the generation to come. Kosi is currently working towards increasing musical understanding through her studies and teaching.
She also contributes to the works of Compagnie de danse Ebnflõh and proudly represents the Symbiotic Monsters, the Unknown Floor Force and Sourpatch movement collective(s).”
Nancy Lee 李南屏 is a Taiwanese-Canadian interdisciplinary media artist, DJ, curator, and cultural producer whose work spans XR, installation, A/V performance, and documentary. A Sundance New Frontier alum, their projects—such as Tidal Traces, UNION, and Woven Memory: Copper Bodies—explore embodiment, memory, and diaspora through expanded media. Their work has been shown at Cannes, SXSW, MUTEK, VIFF, and Centre Phi. They are a co-founder of CURRENT and Chapel Sound Art Foundation, and teaches immersive media at IM4 Lab. They serve as a board director for Love Intersections and Normie Corp, uplifting queer voices in media arts and music. They are committed to equity in the arts, supporting queer and underrepresented artists through mentorship, community consultation, and cross-genre programming in Vancouver.
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Niya Abdullahi is an Artist and Technologist. Themes of identity, liberation and resistance inform her work. Her films have screened at TIFF Next Wave, Black Film Festival Zurich, Nuit Blanche Saskatoon, FORM, Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, Third Watch, Breakthroughs Film Festival, NFFTY, amongst others. She was a 2021 Hot Docs Accelerator Fellow and sat on the Advisory committee for the Nia Centre of the Arts BLACKOUT project and the City of Toronto’s ArtworksTO program.
Tristin Greyeyes, is a Two-Spirit Nehiyaw/Anishinaabe, & proud mother of two. She is a registered member of the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation. She founded Ācimowin Film Festival, in Saskatchewan; Treaty 6 Territory, when she realized there was a dire need for it. Tristin is determined to uplift Indigenous voices across Turtle Island & globally through the art of visual storytelling. While a filmmaker, she is a passionate teacher, she has worked as an indie film lab instructor for youth groups at Pacific Cinémathèque in Vancouver and was a documentary mentor at Chokecherry Studios in Saskatoon, SK. Tristin received her Bachelor’s Degree in Motion Picture Arts, 2021. Before she graduated, she helped create the National Indigenous Student Advisory Committee with the Canadian Alliance Associations. A Cree Approach is her first feature documentary, which she hopes inspires Indigenous people to maintain their ancestral language before it is lost.
Commissioning Fund Program Workshop facilitators
Nancy Lee 李南屏 is a Taiwanese-Canadian interdisciplinary media artist, DJ, curator, and cultural producer whose work spans XR, installation, A/V performance, and documentary. A Sundance New Frontier alum, their projects—such as Tidal Traces, UNION, and Woven Memory: Copper Bodies—explore embodiment, memory, and diaspora through expanded media. Their work has been shown at Cannes, SXSW, MUTEK, VIFF, and Centre Phi. They are a co-founder of CURRENT and Chapel Sound Art Foundation, and teaches immersive media at IM4 Lab. They serve as a board director for Love Intersections and Normie Corp, uplifting queer voices in media arts and music. They are committed to equity in the arts, supporting queer and underrepresented artists through mentorship, community consultation, and cross-genre programming in Vancouver.
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Brandon Wint is an Ontario-born poet, spoken word artist, educator and filmmaker based in Vancouver. For more than a decade, Brandon has been a sought-after touring performance poet, having shared his work all over Canada, and internationally at festivals and showcases in the United States, Australia, Jamaica, Latvia and Lithuania. Brandon Wint's poems and essays have been published in The Ex Puritan, Event Magazine, Arc Poetry Magazine, and Black Writers Matter, among other places. Divine Animal (Write Bloody North, 2020) is his debut collection of poetry. In recent years, his films have screened at DOXA documentary film festival, Reelworld Film Festival, and Vancouver International Film Festival Centre.
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Jen Sungshine is a Taiwanese-Canadian interdisciplinary artist, community facilitator, and cultural producer based in Vancouver, BC. As the Co-Artistic Director of Love Intersections, she explores cultural inheritance, collective sensemaking, and relational practices through documentary film and art. Her works include Yellow Peril: Queer Destiny, Drag is for Everyone, and The House of 9 Dragons, an oral history exhibit in Chinatown. She curates public programming at The Polygon Gallery, and co-produces Hot Pot Talks, a video podcast serving up stories of art, resistance, and everyone's favourite hotpot ingredient. www.jensungshine.com
Sarah Nash Wong (they/he/she) is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and facilitator based on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, colonially known as Vancouver, Canada. Grounded in the archive of their queer, disabled, and 2nd(ish) generation body, their practice traces lineages of ancestral wisdom, resistance movements, care labour, and relationships with land. They make space for the multiple, creating across and between performance, site-specific and interactive installations, textiles, writing, and community care and solidarity work. Nash’s facilitation practice is rooted in collaboration with historically marginalized communities, co-creating environments where accessibility is central, rather than a mere accommodation. They practice accessibility as a creative process of world-building that is an essential means towards enacting liberatory futures. sarahwong.ca | @nashswong
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Kerr Holden is a multi-disciplinary visual artist whose work includes film production, animation, graphic illustration, and video art. Her practice bounces between live-action and animated forms of image making, playfully experimenting with the connections between the two. Kerr's film work traces the transformative moments in one's life, both inside and outside of our bodies. She explores visions of nature, abstractions of movement, and other invisible dramas.
Mini Commission Program Workshop Facilitators
x/o, also known as Veron Xio, is a Vietnamese-Canadian electronic music producer, composer, and interdisciplinary artist.
They have presented work internationally, including Phoenix Central Park (Sydney), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Berghain (Berlin), House of Electronic Arts (Basel), MUTEK Montreal, and 3HD Festival.
Joshua Lam is an early career Director, Writer & Creative Producer working in the Vancouver Film & Media Industry. Josh focuses on fostering the Asian Arts Community while crafting diverse narratives through short comics & animated mediums. He currently serves as the Lead Creative Producer of the Mighty Asian Moviemaking Marathon hosted by Vancouver Asian Film Festival, working in TransLink in the Communications Department creating content, and is funded on his Queer Asian Short through Canada Council for the Arts and BC Arts Council. Josh's stories involve comedic & dramatic stories intersecting with self-identity, queerness, family, relationships, and culture.
Kerr Holden is a multi-disciplinary visual artist whose work includes film production, animation, graphic illustration, and video art. Her practice bounces between live-action and animated forms of image making, playfully experimenting with the connections between the two. Kerr's film work traces the transformative moments in one's life, both inside and outside of our bodies. She explores visions of nature, abstractions of movement, and other invisible dramas.
Recorded Movement Society: Board of Directors
Ashley Sugimoto is a fourth-generation, biracial Japanese Canadian (JC) filmmaker. Her work aims to decolonize the intergenerational trauma within her JC community. She is an alumni of SFU where she directed her short documentary, Aiko (2016) which went on to stream through Yahoo Japan. Recently, Ashley has found a passion for helping organize and participate in programming JC community events. Currently, Ashley is working as a programmer for DOXA Documentary Film Festival.
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Flory Huang is a multidisciplinary visual artist and designer based on Tongva Land also known as Los Angeles, California. As a graduate of Simon Fraser University's School of Interactive Arts & Technology (SIAT) with a Minor in Communications, she gained extensive experience and developed both strategic and production roles in human-centric design, integrated marketing, branding, and business development through a 10+ years commercial career. Flory is currently primarily painting, drawing and tattooing; her work is often rooted in meaning-making, exploring/honoring identity, concepts of time, and the relational contemplation of the spiritual human experience. Flory had the joyful privilege of being FORM’s own branding and graphic designer through years 2017-2022 onto eventual mentorship of emerging youth graphic design.
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Pedro Chamale (he/him) is a playwright, director and performer who was born and raised on treaty 8 territory, Chetwynd, BC. He creates on the unceded and traditional lands of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Pedro is a co-founder of the Canadian Latinx Theatre Artist Coalition and sits on the Latinx Theatre Commons steering committee. He was awarded the young alumni excellence award in 2021, from Simon Fraser University's FCAT department. In 2023 Pedro was a nominee for the BC multicultural and anti-racist “Breaking Boundaries” award for which he is grateful to be recognized for the work he has done both personally and at rice & beans. His latest play Peace Country is available at https://www.playwrightscanada.com/Books/P/Peace-Country
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Sonia Medel is an interdisciplinary curator, artist, and researcher-analyst completing a doctorate in Educational Studies. Her research explores arts and culture in Vancouver through a decolonial, intersectional feminist lens, with a focus on the Latin American dance scene and the socio-political impact of Latina dancers. Alongside her scholarly work, she has returned to stage performances internationally and within Canada and is actively furthering her dance training and engaging in dance film, curation, and two major publishing projects. For over a decade, Medel has advanced decolonial and feminist approaches to arts, culture, and education across the Americas. An Indigenous-descendant Latina, the daughter of a Chilean exile and an immigrant Peruvian mother, she is especially grateful to the Coast Salish peoples and lands where she was born and continues to develop her creative-professional practice.
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LEGACY STAFF
Chimgee Mendee (she/her) is a community-driven creative from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, based on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples (Vancouver, BC). She holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of British Columbia with a double specialization in Marketing and Operations & Logistics.
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Jenna Kraychy (she/her) is a dance artist and administrator residing on Coast Salish territories including the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) nations, or what is colonially known as Vancouver. In 2016, she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Simon Fraser University in contemporary dance. In the Fall of 2020, Jenna formed Little Fish Productions with Sophie Brassard. Together, they have found joy in creating site-responsive, contemporary dance works. In addition, Jenna is pursuing her Masters in Counselling Psychology at City University. Jenna is excited to be joining FORM for their 2022 Festival!
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Kaila Bhullar (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist and experimental filmmaker based in the stolen traditional territories of three Local First Nations: the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) tribes.
Bhullar specializes in editing, photography, mixed media, and audiovisual works. With a particular interest in abstraction and digitally-based art forms, they use art-making as an introspective tool that explores various internal dispositions. These inquiries into the self often manifest as collages of varying forms and multimedia installations. Some of Bhullar’s recent projects include I Spy…2022 (A Disposable Camera Project), UNIT/PITT, 2022; Digital Interventions, Massy Arts Gallery, 2022; Everyone is Happening Always, Audain Gallery, 2022; and the Small File Media Festival, SFU, 2020. Bhullar is currently completing a BFA at SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts, and is grateful to be collaborating with F-O-R-M as their editor/videographer & technical support intern.
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Kimberly Ho 何文蔚 (all pronouns) is an interdisciplinary artist and arts administrator based on the unceded ancestral lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and Tseil-waututh peoples, known as Vancouver. Growing up in a working class immigrant family, Kimberly’s work is nourished by collaborative processes and organically aims to be non-hiecharcial. In their artistic practice, they seek to explore their Hakka diaspora through the physical body and food culture, framing new media as a dimension of queer futurisms, and immersive art as a site of liberation.
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Hân Phạm (she/her) is an emerging Vietnamese documentary/ experimental filmmaker and artist based in Vancouver. Experimenting with film form and its haptic time/space structure, she wishes to construct a collective healing space for minorities through her films - a healing space carried from the storytelling tradition of re-imagination, conversations, collaboration, and communal experience. Her works have exhibited at Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver Queer Film Festival, Reel Youth Film Festivals, and Vines Arts Festival. She is currently finishing her BFA in Film at Simon Fraser University.
Sammy Chien (Chimerik) is a Taipei born, Vancouver based interdisciplinary media artist, director, performer, researcher and mentor who works with film, sound art, new media and dance/theatre performance. He has studied film (BFA Honours) at Simon Fraser University and developed an expertise in electroacoustic music and digital technology in performance environment. After learning real-time performance softwares from Troika Ranch (NYC/Berlin) he continues his deep interest in interdisciplinary collaborations and forges deep connections between image, sound, and movement. He has collaborated visually, aurally and conceptually in numerous multi-disciplinary projects which have exhibited across Canada, Western Europe, and Asia including Centre Pompidou(Paris), Museum of Contemporary Arts Taipei, National Centre for the Performing Arts(Beijing), Hellerau: European Centre for the Arts Dresden. His recent collaboration with Beijing Modern Dance Company includes working with artists such as Wong Kar Wai’s Cinematographer Christopher Doyle, the Father of Rock in China Cui Jian and having lunch with Ai Wei Wei. Sammy has also been involved in research or mentorship in projects that focus on the integration between art, science, technology and spirituality as well as engaging with various community groups such as social activists, low-income residents, mental health, spiritual healing, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ2+, indigenous, multicultural background and youths. Sammy is the Co- Founder/Artistic Director of Chimerik似不像 collective.
Annie (she/her) is an artist and producer primarily working in theatre. She is the General Manager of Groundling Theatre Co. and Communications Producer at Generator. Annie has been spending the pandemic cooking, reading, and escaping to nature as often as possible.
Alger Ji-Liang 梁家傑 (he/him) is an emerging interdisciplinary artist based in Vancouver, BC on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Alger's lens-based works are primarily researched through lived experiences of the body to express individual and communal experiences of navigating identity, grief, and space. He is currently working on community-engaged art and film projects, and a body of movement-based photographic work. Alger thinks a lot about kin and (re)orientations.
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Founding Producers
Led by artistic co-directors Lisa Gelley and Josh Martin, Company 605 is an arts organization based in Vancouver, on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded Indigenous territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. The company is dedicated to producing new dance work through a shared creative process. Inspired by the merging of urban and contemporary forms, 605 places emphasis on movement invention and physically demanding works, valuing collaboration as an essential tool for new directions in dance. 605 is an ongoing exchange between separate people, bodies and ideas, recognizing and celebrating the unique possibilities created in their attempt to co-exist. Through constant collaboration with all involved artists and performers, Company 605 continues to push into new territory and awaken a fresh and ever-evolving aesthetic, together building a highly athletic art form derived from the human experience.
With an expanding repertoire of diverse work, 605 has toured from coast to coast in over 30 cities across Canada, as well as in the US, Central America, Europe and Australia, presented at such notable festivals and venues as: Usine-C (Montréal), Bumbershoot Festival (Seattle), La Rotonde (Québec City), DanceWorks (Toronto), Push International Performing Arts Festival (Vancouver), Live Art Dance (Halifax), The Cultch (Vancouver), The Banff Centre, On The Boards (Seattle), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), New York City Center’s Fall for Dance Festival, American Dance Festival (Durham, NC), Festival PRISMA (Panama), Tempel Kulturzentrum (Karlsruhe, Germany), and Sydney Festival (Australia). Additionally, 605’s short dance films have been shown at over 45 dance-on-screen festivals and events around the world. company605.ca
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Kristina Lemieux (she/her) is an accomplished arts manager with more than 20 years of professional experience. She is also a contemporary dancer. Raised in Treaty 6 territory (rural Alberta), Kristina lived in Edmonton, attending the University of Alberta, for 10 years before heading to Vancouver where her passion for the arts has driven collaboration, creation, and innovation in the Vancouver arts scene for over a decade. After working with Generator in a freelance capacity for several years, Kristina made the move to Toronto in January 2017 to take on the role of Lead Producer of Generator. In Vancouver, Kristina is also the proud co-founder and Creative Producer of F-O-R-M, and continues her work with Dancers of Damelahamid (Coastal First Nations Dance Festival), and her project Scaffold, a coaching and skill development service designed to support performing artists and groups.
Kristina is passionate about generating dialogue in the arts and, to this end, earned a certificate in Dialogue and Civic Engagement from Simon Fraser University. In all that she does she works to support independent artists across performing disciplines in finding ways to make art outside of the currently prescribed modes.
Kristina is an eleventh generation settler on her paternal side, from France, and a first generation settler on her maternal side, from Netherlands.
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Erin Lum (she/her) is an emerging artist based in what is colonially known as Vancouver, BC. Starting out as a Commissioned Artist (2020) to Youth Assistant (2021) and Programmer (2022-2023) to Artistic Direction, she is passionate about fostering youth-engaged spaces in the arts.
Erin is interested in art-making as a powerful form for (re)defining diasporic identity. This had led her to create films, dance, write, collage, and explore how these practices intertwine. In 2020, she was a FORM Commissioned Artist and created Zì Jǐ, which has since screened at international film festivals including a weeklong projection onto the National Arts Centre building in Ottawa. Erin recently completed her BA in Sociology and Communication at SFU. She is currently in production for her upcoming documentary, Just By Existing, with support from DOXA Documentary Film Festival and Future of Film Showcase (Toronto).
erin@f-o-r-m.ca