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 and the Province of BC in making this event possible.

Join us this late April for free community workshops on April 22nd, 24th, and 26th, and be part of our performance on April 29th.

  • Community workshops:
      •   April 22nd, 2025 – 5:30-7:30pm at Holiday Inn & Suites, 1110 Howe Street (Capilano room)
      •   April 24th, 2025 – 5:30-7:30pm at The Dance Centre, 677 Davie Street (Faris Theatre)
      •   April 26th, 2025 – 2:00-4:00pm at Holiday Inn & Suites, 1110 Howe Street (Capilano room)
  • ​Public Performance:
      •   April 29th, 2025 – 12:00pm at 800 Robson Plaza

 

Sharing this moment of joy with all of you was an amazing experience!

We are so thankful to all the community dancers who joined us for on International Dance Day 2025 !

We are so proud of the young students of Ecole des Colibris who embarked with all their beautiful energy and their wonderful smiles on this adventure with us.

Thank you Province of BC, City of Vancouver and The Dance Centre for your support!

Support our Work!

 

2024

Have you always wanted to be part of a dance flash mob?

Join us with North Vancouver Recreation & Culture at free community workshops open to all ages and abilities.
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 – International Dance Day

Concept & Direction:
Rachel Helten

Artistic collaborators: 
Juolin Lee, Kira Radosevic, Kevin Li, Chelsea Goddard, Maddy Cruz, Kaia Shukin

Community dancers: 
Keith Lim, Flora Wang, Julie Martz, Linda Lawson, Madeleine Dumais, and the students and teachers of elementary school Ecole des Colibris

Music: 
Balkan Shmalkan

Musicians: 
Ashton Sweet, Andromeda MacIsaac, Kat Single-Dain, Aiko Sato, David Brown, Juliet Andrien

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Collaborators – North Vancouver

Concept & Direction:
Rachel Helten

Artistic collaborators: 
Sarah Hutton, Juolin Lee, Kira Radosevic, Kevin Li, Ana Sosa

Music: 
Balkan Shmalkan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Collaborators – Research Phase

Concept:
Paras Terezakis

Direction (under mentorship of Paras Terezakis): 
Rachel Helten

Artistic collaborators: 
Justin Calvadores, Alicia Clark, Sarah Hutton, Kami Schuyler

Artemis’ Embrace at Robson Square, Vancouver, BC on April 29th, 2025

Artemis’ Embrace at Ray Perrault Park, North Vancouver, BC on August 15th, 2024

Sneak Peak into research at the Dance Centre on September 16th, 2023

Thank You North Vancouver!

by | Sep 12, 2024 |

We had so much fun dancing with the North Vancouver community! We are so grateful to everyone who joined us for Artemis’ Embrace, an immersive creative dance project celebrating strength, courage, and the power of movement. Together, we explored themes through our own...

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.

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