TALKING STICK BLOOM February 23, 2020
BLOOM 2020 is presented in partnership with the 19th Annual Talking Stick Festival (February 18 - 29 Vancouver), and Bloom artists-in-residence are in studio, preparing work for two showings:
February 25, 5:30PM at Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie.
March 5, 6:30PM at the MascallDance Studio, 1140 Jervis.
Watch this space! It’s our pleasure to be introducing you to the Artists in Residence, here:
Rainbow Glitz
RainbowGlitz is one of Virago’s Nations founding members and Vancouver's Rainbow slut that spreads her love medicine in a mix of classic, nerdlesque, exotic dance and pussy cat doll hip hop movement. This Haida, Squamish, Musqueam and black artist will leave you wanting to throw your pot of gold at the end of her rainbow.
Olivia C. Davies
Olivia C. Davies is a dance artist, choreographer, community-arts facilitator and emerging curator of mixed-Anishinaabe, French-Canadian, Finnish and Welsh heritage whose works often explore the emotional and political relationships between people and places.
Her recent choreographic explorations are driven by a desire to explore neo-traditional aspects of her Indigeneity.
Beany John
Beany John is Plains Cree and Taino from Kehewin Cree Nation, Alberta. She is a Dancer, Storyteller and Teacher.
She is one of two women in Canada given permission to be part of the Grass Dance Society and was initiated in 1998. She is a champion Grass Dancer and Hoop Dancer and has been training, touring and teaching with Kehewin Native Dance Theatre since childhood.
She has worked in both First Nations and Urban centres throughout Canada and the United States and has toured internationally throughout New Zealand, Australia, Mexico, Switzerland and has toured to Paris and Venice. In 2012, Beany toured with the Nelly Furtado Indistructable tour dancing Hoop for Nelly’s song, Big Hoops.
She shares the Traditional art of Hoop Dancing blended with Contemporary music and Wonder, Appreciation and Excitement have filled the hundreds of audiences she has performed for.
Angela Cooper
Angela Cooper is a Cree actress from Edmonton Alberta. She has trained in dance at Raino Dance and graduated from VAD Arts in Victoria BC. She is a current Artist In Residence at Skwachays Lodge and resides in Vancouver, where she is pursuing her craft in acting and dance.