Artemis’ Embrace
2025
Our community-driven flash mob, Artemis’ Embrace, returns for International Dance Day 2025 in partnership with The Dance Centre!
We are deeply grateful for the support of the City of Vancouver in making this event possible.
Join us in late April for free community workshops on April 22nd, 24th, and 26th, and be part of our performance on April 29th.
Stay tuned—more details coming soon!
2024
Have you always wanted to be part of a dance flash mob?
Artemis’ Embrace is an immersive creative dance workshop series and performance project, igniting creative exploration through guided dance improvisation, choreography, and community collaboration under the guidance of experienced dance artists.
The dance workshops culminate in a live flash mob performance in North Vancouver. This free experience includes workshop times, a dress rehearsal and the performance.
Please note that to participate in the Flash Mob performance, a commitment to the workshops and dress rehearsal is required. All bodies and abilities are welcome!
- Community dance classes: Tuesday August 6, 6:45-8:45pm & Thursday August 8, 6:45-8:45pm
- On site dress rehearsal: Tuesday August 13, 6:45-7:45pm
- Performance: Thursday August 15 6:00-7:30
Thank you to all of you who joined us in North Vancouver! It was a blast!
More soon!
2023
With this new project, Kinesis Dance somatheatro wants to celebrate the strength, the courage and the determination it takes to embrace our unique identities, including the femininity we all have inside us. While utilizing the power of movement as a path towards releasing generational, cultural and societal programming, this project aims at creating a choreography that will ultimately be revisited including community dancers, and publicly performed.
Collaborators – North Vancouver
Concept & Direction:
Rachel Helten
Artistic collaborators:
Sarah Hutton, Juolin Lee, Kira Radosevic, Kevin Li, Ana Sosa
Collaborators – Research Phase
Concept:
Paras Terezakis
Direction (under mentorship of Paras Terezakis):
Rachel Helten
Artistic collaborators:
Justin Calvadores, Alicia Clark, Sarah Hutton, Kami Schuyler
Sneak Peak into research at the Dance Centre on September 16th, 2023
Artemis’ Embrace at Ray Perrault Park, North Vancouver, BC on August 15th, 2024
We would like to express our deepest and sincere appreciation to our funders, partners, volunteers and supporters who made this project possible.
We would like to acknowledge that we are gathered and are creating on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples–Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.