The Team
At F-O-R-M, 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.
Associate Artistic Director (2021-2022)
Youth Curator (2020-2021)
Commissioned Artist (2019)
You’ll often find me…
Creating, crafting, and curating festival programming
Orchestrating calls, submissions, and databases
Coordinating artistic committee and artists
Dancing with words (aka. chasing grants)
From Commissioned Artist (2019) to Artistic Director, my F-O-R-M experience has been a transformative journey of growth, sprinkled with huge learning curves and cherished memories. With deep gratitude for our extraordinary team and the artists who are the beating heart of our ever-expanding family, I eagerly embrace the next chapter of this adventure.
Tamar Zehava Tabori (she/her) dances, makes videos, and works behind the scenes in the arts. Holding a BFA in Contemporary Dance from Concordia University in Montreal, her artistic journey has taken her across Canada and the globe, performing on both the stage and screen. Tamar's artistic growth has been nurtured by and through esteemed artists such as Jeanette Kotowich, Company 605, Petrikor Danse, Stéphanie Cyr, Julie Chapple (Future Leisure), and The Falling Company, amongst others. Dedicated to pushing boundaries, her experimental short films have screened at numerous festivals worldwide, as well as on the side of buildings.
Tamar's artistic trajectory is marked by commissions for both production and curation roles, supplementing her desire to share and grow within different creative capacities. With a personal value of defying conventions and embracing the transformative power of movement, she's proud to be a part of F-O-R-M as its Associate Artistic Director.
Tamar is currently finding inspiration and grounding on the stolen and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples; namely the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.
Photo by Sophia Wolfe
Programming Assistant (2021)
Commissioned Artist (2020)
You’ll often find me…
Mentoring young artists as the lead facilitator of the Mini Commissions Program
Supporting the curation and coordination of festival programming
Leading outreach activities to engage youth and the street dance community
Connecting with my youth!
I have been involved with F-O-R-M since I was 17 as a 2020 Commissioned Artist, an experience that was truly pivotal to my life and career. Since then, I’ve been lucky to support the team in different capacities before stepping into my role as Youth Programmer in 2022 with mentorship from Sophia and Tamar. I’m deeply honoured and excited to continue growing alongside F-O-R-M and our inspiring team!
Erin Lum (she/her) is an emerging dance artist, writer, and filmmaker based on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples (Vancouver, BC). As F-O-R-M’s youngest staff member, she is passionate about fostering youth-engaged spaces in the arts.
Erin’s instinctual love for movement is a vessel to explore other creative practices. She previously published 25 interviews with Canadian dance artists as the blog writer of Story Bloom. In 2020, she was a F-O-R-M Commissioned Artist. Her first dance film Zì Jǐ premiered at F-O-R-M’s 5th festival and has since screened at over 11 film festivals, including a weeklong projection onto the National Arts Centre building in Ottawa. Her second short, Something To Forget Me By, premiered in 2022. Erin is pursuing her undergrad degree in Sociology and Communications at Simon Fraser University. In 2022, Erin showcased a multi-media project Just By Existing in a group exhibition at the Art Gallery at Evergreen. She is currently working on expanding this project into a documentary film with the support of DOXA Festival.
Photo by Sophia Wolfe
Associate Producer (2022)
You’ll often find me…
Developing and implementing sponsorship plans and outreach
Coordinating and executing festival activities
Creating and maintaining budgets and payment schedules
Supporting with grant writing
Making lists and checking them twice
I joined the F-O-R-M team in September 2022 as Associate Producer and have since stepped into the role of Creative Producer thanks to the thorough and supportive guidance of Kayla De Vos. I am excited to continue learning and growing alongside such a passionate, dedicated, and compassionate team.
Chiara Lucchetta (she/her) is an independent dance artist, writer, movement instructor, and arts organizer currently based on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples (Vancouver, BC). Chiara’s artistic journey has led her down many paths, including art dissemination, curation, presentation, production, and performance in commercial and fringe settings, such as dancing with the A-Team for the Toronto Argos and doing a commissioned choreographic residency with The Garage (Toronto, 2020).
Chiara has training in hip hop and contemporary dance, journalism, creative writing, and holds certifications in various mind-body techniques, including yoga and mental health crisis response. She draws on the experience and knowledge she has cultivated from her space-holding roles to facilitate community programming that provides supportive and empowering spaces for emerging artists.
Enamored by the interconnective flow of the cosmos, Chiara’s creative practices and daily ruminations are driven by a curiosity to explore how her facets can live together and inform one another. Chiara is excited to learn and grow alongside the F-O-R-M team as the Creative Producer. She is also the founder of Purple Glow Collective, a Toronto-based organization facilitating multifaceted spaces that encourage the cross pollination of creative practices and processes. Chiara believes that simply existing is a creative act and lives, works, and plays from this ethos.
Photo by Sophia Wolfe
You’ll often find me…
Posting! everywhere! especially on Instagram stories amplifying community calls & events
Designing pages and updating the website
Crafting beautiful newsletters for your mailboxes
Spending too much time choosing the right emoji for any given copy
Running, drawing, and going to new events!
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.
As a continuing love letter to the communities in this city that make it feel less cold and distant and much warmer, kinder, and softer, she created and curates @hotmothertruckers, a “Vancouver” events page where QTBIPoC events are prioritized. She enjoys designing delicious and disconcerting graphics for the page. Since December 2021, she has gathered and shared community events every week with a dedication to celebrating the expression and action of community, how we come together, what we create for each other, and how we build with and for our full selves.
To recognize and support artists at university, she co-founded exposure UBC, the student organization of UBC Arts & Culture, which promotes emerging artists while pushing minority voices to the forefront and challenging colonial frameworks. She has since worked in research, public programming, and marketing & communications.
New to the F-O-R-M team, She is honoured and delighted to be a part of F-O-R-M’s unique mission in marrying the practices of both film and movement and supporting youth + emerging artists in exploring the artforms.
Photo by Sophia Wolfe
Graphic Design Intern (2022)
You’ll often find me…
Browsing graphic websites for inspiration and adding them to my collection.
Photographing beautiful typefaces I encounter on the street.
Laying out countless brand visual concepts for F-O-R-M in Illustrator on my laptop.
My experience at F-O-R-M has been incredibly joyful. It has allowed me to grow from being a design student to a design intern, and eventually a graphic designer. Not only has it honed my professional skills, but it has also cultivated a mindset that allows me to truly enjoy my career with the incredible team at F-O-R-M.
Jingyi Liu (景怡) is an emerging multidisciplinary designer who is dedicated to using visual languages to tell compelling stories. Currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in Communication Design at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Jingyi was born and raised in Tianjin, China and is currently based in Vancouver, which is situated on the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish),and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Jingyi draws creative inspiration from the clash of cultures, emotional connections between people, and a sense of longing for home. She is particularly passionate about UX design and technology-related design that aims to assist people in functional ways, with a strong emphasis on user behavior research. Jingyi believes that all areas of design should be human-centered.
Previously, Jingyi worked as a marketing designer intern for Sina Beijing and is currently undertaking a brand designer role at Festival of Recorded Movement. In 2021, her work "Mirrors" was exhibited both online and on-site at the Libby Leshgold Gallery at Emily Carr University. Her ultimate life dream is to design and collaborate with individuals from all around the world.
Brand Director (2022)
Graphic Designer (2018-2021)
You’ll often find me..
Supporting this year’s new graphic designer, Jingyi, in shaping F-O-R-M’s growing brand
Asking questions about everything
Exploring different methods of creating and designing
Capturing moments of sentiment in 35mm film
Deep in conversation with people connecting through the different philosophies, values and capacities of the human experience and spiritual being
I had the honor of joining F-O-R-M in 2017 as their graphic designer after meeting Sophia and sharing deep love for art and community. For the 5 years following, I joyfully led the festival through diverse, annual visual brand identity designs. Stepping into a Brand Director role in 2022, I got to onboard and mentor Jingyi Liu as an intern. As we both grow in our respective careers, I’m delighted to now support her as the festival’s new graphic designer.
Flory Huang (she/they) is a multi-hyphenate artist and designer based on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples (Vancouver, BC) and Tongva Land (Los Angeles, California) where they were born. A graduate of Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts & Technology (SIAT), Flory has grown a portfolio of diverse mediums and collaborators with human-centric design and integrous branding, complementing the growth and impact of organizations of all sizes.
Flory joins F-O-R-M in a consulting and design mentorship capacity this year, honored and proud to contribute her industry experience in F-O-R-M’s exceptional growth and expansions.
In a return to their artistic practice, Flory is now focused on mastering the new craft and medium of machine tattooing. It is energizing to create and collaborate with different people at the intersection of custom design and personal stories and sentiments.
Photo by Sophia Wolfe
Commissioned Artist (2021)
Presented Short Film Artist (2020)
Submission Screening Assistant (2019)
You’ll often find them…
Contemplating and researching about accessibility justice in art to inform an access centred screening
Helping bring together and celebrate various artistic communities through FORMations, awards coordination, and partnership outreach
Having many many tabs open on my laptop to shadow the programming and producing team about how exactly F-O-R-M comes to life
Sitting in a dark movie theatre until the end of the credits roll
F-O-R-M has expanded my universe time and time again, by allowing me a platform to share tiny films of my past and create dreamy ambitious films of my present. I am beyond thrilled to now be able to give to this festival in a new capacity by contributing to its ongoing growth, and supporting emerging artists to develop their practices, as I have felt firsthand how much impact this tiny but mighty festival has had on my own life over the past five years.
danielle Mackenzie Long (they/them), a queer emerging interdisciplinary artist, resides on the stolen and unceded territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm nations. They seek to use new media and film to liberate trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming dance artists to create work that surpasses gendered bodies through various means of visual presentation and audience access.
After having graduated from Modus Operandi Contemporary Dance Program, they have had the pleasure to creatively engage with the Festival of Recorded Movement, New Works, Co.ERASGA, Chimerik 似不像 Collective, Oksana Augustine, and Francesca Frewer. Occasionally they study Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia with the aspiration to infiltrate and challenge the academic world by navigating it with an emphasis on curiosity, refusal, and rest.
danielle is fascinated by bike mechanics, and hopes to build a bike one day.
“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.”
You’ll often find them…
Connecting with artists and organizations about their films, and pouring over the latest brilliant submissions to the festival
Dancing and creating choreography for the final installment of a 3-part dance piece they’ve been dreaming of for a few years
As well as attending outdoor covid-safer choir that's so good for the heart
romham pàdraig gallacher (they/them) is a queer & trans crip dance artist with the All Bodies Dance Project (ABDP), based on the stolen, unceded, ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. They don't take their position as an immigrant settler on these lands lightly, and continue to work on what it means to be here, and to dance here, when dance and language and Indigenous existence itself continues to be undermined, criminalized and colonized. They try to live with humility and solidarity while engaging in ongoing learning about Indigenous resistance & sovereignty.
Ever since ABDP’s first class in 2014, they’ve been fortunate to have the opportunity to discover and deepen their dance and choreography through the incredible community at ABDP, and make connections to other groups (like F-O-R-M!). romham is the founder of the Radical Access Mapping Project, a local crip endeavour that since 2009 has been providing accessibility audits and consulting, captioning for film & video, and other community work around access and ableism. They’re so excited to be part of the F-O-R-M team this year.
2023 Artistic Committee
erψn temp3st is a multimedia artist and performer of settler descent. They are interested in the body as a builder of worlds and use digital technologies to render those worlds visible. Their exploration across multiple disciplines aims to redefine body-based practices in terms of technological, sonic, and sculptural intervention.
erψn’s work has been presented in theatres, galleries, and cinemas across Canada and internationally in India, Venezuela, and the United States. They are the recipient of multiple grants, awards, and residencies across Canada. erψn is one half of soft tooth||SFTTTH, an interdisciplinary sound collective that explores intimacy, resonance, and relationality. They were an artist in residence at Lorganisme (QC) and DUPLEX AiR (Portugal) in 2022 and at Tangente Danse (QC) in 2023. erψn will be presenting their interdisciplinary online performance Blushing Phantom in September 2023 as part of Interplay (BC).
Photo by Steph Patsula
Ashvini Sundaram (BSc, MFA) is a Singaporean-Canadian dance artist. She received bharatanatyam training under the multi-award-winning dance artist, Rama Vaidyanathan. Ashvini’s work aims to address topics related to ancestral knowledge systems and diasporic identity. Her choreographic research called “Art of Time” examines "cyclical time" as seen in the Indian classical music system to transcend normative framings of time, body, and presence as seen in Western scholarship and dance writing. In Dec 2022, Ashvini was a selected participant in the Dance Artists in Residence program at The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity to examine how tradition lives in the body and what embodied relationships exist to land, ancestry, and togetherness.
Photo by Alison Wandzura
Juan Alcuitas-Imperial is an emerging Filipino queer artist with roots in vogue and waacking. Since the age of 15, Juan has been dedicated to teaching, performing and supporting the overall growth of the ballroom and waacking communities. Imperial has taught for VancityWaack, VanVogueJam, F-O-R-M, and Libby Leshgold Gallery among other spaces across the Lower Mainland. Since 2020, Imperial has been studying the intersection of street and contemporary dance in programs such as Barangay Project, Lunacy Phase and Modus Operandi’s MO Link program — leading them to creating their debut film “The Meeting Place” for F-O-R-M 2022’s commissioned artist program.
Photo by Nicole Yen
Past Staff
Volunteer Coordinator (2017)
Volunteer / Box Office Coordinator (2018)
Associate Producer (2019-2020)
Creative Producer (2022)
My F-O-R-M experience has been wide-ranging, moving from Volunteer Coordinator to Creative Producer over a 6 year period. The time in-between was infused with high-quality mentorship from Kristina Lemieux and loads of practical hands-on experience; these were opportunities to prove my own capability to myself, watching in real time as my skillset grew from timidity into the type of confidence that only comes through doing the thing. This year, I am grateful to Chiara for giving me the opportunity to step into a mentorship role as I passed on my knowledge, and feel that the future of the festival is in the innovative and capable hands of the next generation. My time at F-O-R-M introduced me to the radical possibilities within non-profit leadership structure and empowered me to find pathways to integrate my passion for numbers, data and bookkeeping within my artistic practice.
Kayla (she/they) is a human being made of approximately 7 octillion (7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) atoms. Kayla organizes her atoms to laugh, cry, drink coffee, rest, create dance, hike, and produce shows and festivals.
She is a second generation settler from the Menno Colony in Chaco, Paraguay via her maternal side. Born on the unceded, ancestral and traditional Stó:lō, Kwantlen, and Nuxwsa’7aq (Nooksack) territories (Abbotsford, B.C.), they now reside on the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) territories (Vancouver, B.C.).
I am currently working towards becoming a Holistic Bookkeeper specializing in arts/non profit/charity bookkeeping and financial education for artists from a trauma-informed and embodiment lens, and am in the research process for a new interdisciplinary movement score work.
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 F-O-R-M for their 2022 Festival!
Photo by Gaëtan Nerincx
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.
Photo credit: Marwah Jaffar
Kimberly Ho 何文蔚 (all pronouns) is excited to join the F-O-R-M team, as the new Communications Producer! They are 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.
Kimberly’s creative output spans across mediums, including theatre, photography, visual arts, new media, fashion styling and writing. Their work “tou saang zhu 土生豬” was presented as part of the group exhibition (Re)Visions at the Art Gallery at Evergreen, and Massy Art Gallery. They were also the recipient of Vancouver Asian Film Festival’s inaugural Richard K. Wong Film Fund and winner of the People’s Choice Award for Best Short Film for their participatory documentary “To Make Ends Meat 心頭肉”. Their acting credits included Theory at Rumble Theatre’s Tremors Festival, the world premiere of House and Home at Firehall Arts Centre, and “No More Parties”, featured in film festival platforms including Toronto International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival and was one of seven films selected to represent Canada for Telefilm’s Not Short on Talent program at Clermont-Ferrand.
Photo by Flory Huang
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.
Annie is a third-generation settler by way of Ukraine on her maternal side, Scotland on her paternal side. She was born and raised in the unceded territories of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil- Waututh), and xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) peoples. Annie is currently an uninvited guest on the ancestral territories of the Haudenosaunee, the Wendat, and the ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐗᑭ (Anishinabewaki) in Tkarón:to (where the trees meet the water).
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.
Photo Credit: Ciara Kosai
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
Photo by David Cooper
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.
Photo by Flory Huang
Founding Artistic Director (2015-2022)
You’ll often find me…
Overseeing organizational aspects of the festival, writing grants, mentoring and supporting current staff and hiring new staff
Coordinating and mentoring commissioned artists
Dancing in the studio, in my kitchen and with my camera in hand :)
When I set out on this journey of starting F-O-R-M in 2015 alongside mentors Lisa Gelley, Josh Martin (Company 605), and Kristina Lemieux, I would have never imagined us to be here 8 years later. Continuing to support youth and emerging artists through screening and commissioning movement-based films as well as supporting the artists within our staff has been an extremely rewarding experience on this journey. Mentoring and supporting Tamar and Erin in their roles as AD and Youth Programmer over the last 3 years has been my focus, and I am excited to now officially pass down the torch and support them in their visions for the festival as they step into these leadership positions.
As Organizational Director, I am still around, overlooking and supporting the organizational vision, and seeking opportunities to expand our reach. I am also mentoring artists and supporting staff as they transition into their new roles. I’m so grateful for all the opportunities this community has offered me and it has been an immense pleasure to continue building and learning alongside the ever-growing community of dance/movement-based films in Vancouver and beyond. Thank you to everyone who I’ve encountered, and been in relationship with over these years! Let’s continue the good work. I’m so looking forward to this next chapter with you all!
My name is Sophia Mai Wolfe (she/her/hers), I am a queer, Japanese-Canadian independent artist whose practice is ever-changing. My practice moves and connects me to live performance, video documentation, curation, festival programming, editing, filmmaking, and directing. I am a grateful guest of what is colonially know as Vancouver on the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish),and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. My dance practice has led me to performing and touring internationally with companies and independent choreographers such as Company 605, Co-Erasga, Chick Snipper, Cindy Mochizuki, Lisa Mariko Gelley, Kelly McInnes, Antonio Somera, Zahra Shahab, The Only Animal and New World Theatre.
I hold an MA in Screendance from the London Contemporary Dance School, and am the founding Artistic Director of F-O-R-M (Festival Of Recorded Movement). Through completing my MA, I became interested in making work that challenges and slows our attention. I use film and dance to invite connection and empathy towards the bodies we witness on screen, as well as invite sensation within the bodies of those witnessing. I work independently and collaboratively with artists and communities to engage audiences in work that moves them through embodied and imaginative experiences.
I am also involved with videocan as a video archivist and on the research team which is an online archive of Canadian performance directed by Patrick Blenkarn and Milton Lim. I have also curated screenings for New Blue Dance Festival (Toronto), Vancouver Art Gallery, DOTE (Vancouver) and Body+Camera (Chicago).
Photo by Erin Lum