Live Acts Festival | 2024
Week One: March 12 – 17 & 24 | Week Two: April 2 – 6, 2024
Fei & Milton Wong Experimental Theatre
SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
Tickets: $5 per program
The culmination of creative research over two semesters, the Live Acts Festival 2024 is a presentation of BFA capstone projects created by SCA Theatre & Performance and Dance Majors. Over two weeks, 23 artists present solo or group works in a series of double-bill programs, across three unique stage configurations – Proscenium, Alley, and in the Round – in the Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre, as well as one off-site outdoor presentation.
Each Program in the series is $5, and each show has two performances; since both shows’ performances are at different times and days, it's possible to see every show in every Program.
Kaitlyn La Vigne – Sifting Perspectives | Dance
Week 1 | Program B: Alley | Tues, March 12, 9:00 PM & Fri, March 15, 9:00 PM
How to be a cubist. It is a point of view. This research stems from a curiosity in the visual art lens and technique of cubism. Driven by its approach to fragment and abstract reality by reducing anything and everything into geometric outlines and cubes. Performers developed a language to take a multidimensional body and space and reconstruct itself into a two-dimensional form. Through an exploration of symmetry, relationships, spatial patterning this work begins to expand and challenge what we see as our reality. What do we choose to see, show, and share.
Cast & Crew
Choreographer: Kaitlyn La Vigne (she/her)
Sound Composer / Performer: Leif Hatzi-Blaak (he/him)
Movement Generators / Performers: Mekaela Reyes (she/her), Krystal Tsai (she/they), Abby Blanchard (she/her), Olivia Johnson (she/her), Lillian Wallman (she/her)
Stage Manager: Jae Gonzales (He/They)
Lighting Designer: Vicky Kwok (she/her)
Operator 1: Marianne Gagnon (She/her)
Operator 2: Zoë Larson (they/them)
Sound: Composed by Leif Hatzi-Blaak
Artist statement / Bio
Kaitlyn is an emerging contemporary dance artist who continues to create, learn, and reside on the lands of the Semiahmoo, Katzie, Kwikwetlem, Kwantlen, Qayqayt and Tsawwassen First Nations, so called Vancouver. She will be graduating this spring from SFU with a BFA honours in dance and minor in gerontology.
Special Thanks: Thank you to guest artist Josh Martin, Lisa Gelley, Josh Hite, Daisy Thompson, and Arne Eigenfeldt for guidance and support throughout the process of movement and sound creation.