Emmalena Fredriksson

Emmalena Fredriksson is a contemporary dance artist based in Vancouver, working on the unceded lands of the Coast Salish peoples. Her practice centers choreography as a relational practice, often collaborating with artists of other disciplines, creating choreographic experiences and dance for social events, film, galleries and performance.

Alaia Hamer is a theatre designer and artist located in Vancouver, BC. Growing up with a creative family on coastal Pender Island, Alaia has experimented in art and hand craft as long as she can remember. She holds a degree in English Literature from UBC in 2012 and this interest in text and narrative storytelling has been a huge influence on her drive to pursue theatrical design. After extensive work in the commercial theaters  of Vancouver, she is currently pursuing a MFA at the University of British Columbia with a focus on disruption of her design process and alternate forms of practice.

Kyla Gardiner is a designer and performance creator based in Vancouver, BC. Her artistic research investigates non-human agency, design-based approaches to devised creation, and the ways deep collaboration might challenge ideas of artistic authorship. Kyla holds a BA in Theatre and Philosophy from the University of British Columbia and an MFA from the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University.