As promised, here is our first sharing in celebration of Lamondance's 15th anniversary.

Get ready to go behind the curtain with "unmasked" - an intimate 39-minute glimpse into Lamondance show's secret world from Season Nine's "Marbled." Witness never-before-seen footage and uncover the magic that brings our shows to life. Join us for an exclusive peek at the heart of our artistry.

Music: Cinematic Documentary Calm by Infraction [No Copyright Music] _ Daily

Video by @barichini

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Garden of Lights

World Premiere, July 2016, Brasilia Brazil at the International Dance Seminar, remounted for LMD seasons 8 and 10

There was a last hour, a last minute, a last second that 2,982 stars went dark.

Inspired by the book "THE POWER OF NOW" by Eckhart Tolle and the photo "Garden of Lights" by Pierre David with Sean Corriel, an idea that Jessica Kmetovic proposed for the 09/11 Memorial in New York and combined with, Garden of lights holds the promise of leading us to a spiritual awakening of our best and highest place, helping us to reflect the energy of true transformation as we learn that life is short, and there is no time for hate.

A nation that still stands after this tragedy.

Lighting Designer: Andrew Pye

Stage Manager: Kim Plough

Performers: Lamondance Company

A Most Dominant Wavelength

World Premiere, May 2019

My sighs are blown away, my salt tears gone, Mine eyes are turned to fire, my heart to lead; Heavy heart's lead, melt at mine eyes' red fire! So shall I die by drops of hot desire.

- William Shakespeare

Choreography by Kirsten Wicklund, in collaboration with the dancers.

Costumes: Kirsten Wicklund
Music: Forest Swords, Asa-Chang & Junray, Arca, Edith Piaf

Performers: Lamondance Company

Lighting Designer: Andrew Pye
Stage Manager: Kim Plough

Pathways

Excerpt of Vision Impure

Choreography: Noam Gagnon

Music: Stefan Nazarevich

Lighting Designer: Andrew Pye

Recorded at The Blueshore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts

North Vancouver, B.C

June 1st, 2019

Lamondance Season 10

Why?

World Premiere, May 2019

This piece began with my children's curious questions eleven years ago. I have since been recording their innocent, humorous and wonder-filled words and could no longer resist the urge to make a theatrical dance piece. With a child's voice in mind, "Why" depicts the relationships, depth and unknowns that take hold of us in our early years. Throughout the process, we were governed by a sense of creative play and reminded of our undeniable connection to each other. Thank you to the dancers for all their playful input and endless imagination. And to my daughters, for continually challenging me to see the world with a curious heart and mind.

Choreography by Lara Barclay, in collaboration with the dancers.

Costumes: Davi Rodrigues

Music: "Nothing Matters," vocals by Amaya Coen, Johannes Brahms, Quadro Nuevo

We

World Premiere, June 2017.

We can Live happy ...

We can die trying ...

We will learn by making mistakes.

And whichever door you choose to open or close

Will be your own faith.

Choreography

Davi Rodrigues

Music

Toque n.4, Canto n. 3 - Courtesy of Vitor Araujo

It’s Magic by Doris Day written by Jule Styne, with lyrics by Sammy Cahn.

Lighting Designer

Andrew Pye

Stage Manager

Kim Plough

Performers

Lamondance company

The Warm-Up

World Premiere, May 2019 / Lamondance show VIVA 2019

Choreography by Heather Laura Gray, in collaboration with the dancers.

Costumes: Heather Laura Gray

Music: Panda Bear and Taylor Deupree

Performers: Lamondance Apprentice Company

Alexandra Shigetomi, Amanda Barros, Oksana Maslechko, Paula Pacheco, Sève Mc-Mullin and Tiago Camargo and Afonso Junior

Homo Habilis premiere 2013

Choreography and Costume Design: Davi Rodrigues

Music: João Bosco and Julio Pimentel

Somewhere between Stone age and today's time, Homo Habilis explores the discovery of communication with an uneven Rhythmically walking connection of the senses for survival and the intricate art of flirting.

Those primates are our images of the past still present nowadays.

- "Davi Rodrigues, 2013"

Homo Habilis was created originally in 2012 for CAPA Dance and Drama, getting a full-length version in 2013 for Arts Umbrella Dance Company.

Inspiration comes from all places, schools, streets, real-life, past and present. This creation is dedicated to the director that I had the pleasure to work with for five years as a professional dancer. He was a big source of creativity.

Choreography: Shannon Moreno

Music: Sigur Ros

Lighting Designer: Andrew Pye

Performers: Gustavo Madubuike, Kat Trainor, Alexandra Shigetomi Alex Wilkinson, Kiona Graham, Igor Gomes, Alejandra Miranda Sarah Tse, Sarah Klukas, Fernanda Faillace and Juan Duarte.

Recorded at The Dance Centre in Vancouver BC Canada, on June 11th, 2016 During the show Spark Lamondance season 7

World premiere, May 2013, Lamondance Season 4

Choreography: Lara Barclay

Music: Bach played by Glenn Gould & archive

Dreamstate represents the spectrum from wakefulness to deep sleep. It begins in a state of quiet wakefulness and ventures into the personal territory of individual dreams. Directed by the vulnerable disorientation that occurs as one passes through the many stages of sleep, the dancers gather impulses and memories from their dream travels.

Dreamstate was a choreographic collaboration created by Monica Proenca and Lara Barclay for LMD Season 4. A new excerpt was created for LMD Season 8 for the show WE The company performed the full-length piece at the International Dance Festival in Brasilia, Brazil, in July 2013.

Supernova the making of (a documentary) (Part 1) is the first video of a mini-series of the creation process of Super Nova a creation by Artistic Director Davi Rodrigues for Lamondance Season 7 that will give you a peek at the magic behind the choreographic process of the Piece.

Video by Kat Trainor

Supernova the making of (a documentary) (Part 2) is the second video of a mini-series of the creation process of Supernova a creation by Artistic Director Davi Rodrigues for Lamondance Season 7 that will give you a peek at the magic behind the choreographic process of the Piece.

In this episode, artistic director Davi Rodrigues continues to explain the details of this Master Piece created for LMD season 7.
Video by Kat Trainor

Supernova the making of (a documentary) (Part 3) is the second video of a mini-series of the creation process of Supernova a creation by Artistic Director Davi Rodrigues for Lamondance Season 7 that will give you a peek at the magic behind the choreographic process of the Piece.

In this episode, artistic director Davi Rodrigues continues to explain the details of this Master Piece created for LMD season 7. Video by Kat Trainor

Big things have small beginnings - unknown

Choreography and Costume Design: Davi Rodrigues

Music: Dave Porter, Max Richter, Forss, BillBand, Arvo Part and Lenine

Lighting Designer: Andrew Pye

Performers: Gustavo Madubuike, Kat Trainor, Alexandra Shigetomi Alex Wilkinson, Kiona Graham, Igor Gomes, Alejandra Miranda Sarah Tse, Sarah Klukas, Fernanda Faillace and Juan Duarte.

Recorded at The Dance Centre in Vancouver BC Canada, on June 11th, 2016 During the show Spark Lamondance season 7

Anjos que Caem (Falling angels)

World Premiere- 2012 Written and Choreographed: Davi Rodrigues

Music: Music: Arnaldo Antunes, Pawel Blaszczak, Inti Illimani & Francesca Gagnon, Philip Glass / Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira Regência: Marcos Arakaki, George Skaroulis, Pawel Blaszczak and orchestra Della Svizzera Italiana

Anjos que Caem (Falling angels) is about the path of angels once they have fulfilled their mission. Where do angels go once they have served their purpose? "Why are we here now?" This piece suggests that there is no 'now' or 'here.' There is only a place that angels create together so that they can find one another. Nobody makes it alone. What is an angel's purpose? To remember and let go. And through this, they begin again.

The company has performed the excerpt of "Anjos que caem", in Brazil in 2013 and 2017 and remounted for seasons 4, 7 and 11 in Vancouver, Canada.

Entre Vento e Areia is a fictional tale of the wrath of a woman who has the life of her loved one taken away while crossing the desert.

Inspired by the spice-trading route that linked India to Central Asia, a journey from east to west across the desert to transport spices and delicacies such as cloves, cinnamon and oregano.

E.V.A became the name of a powerful goddess who turned her fury in a storm of wind and sand; A link between fiction and reality, myths and truths about the desert with unique, subversive and inspired movements."

E.V.A is the contraction of the name of the piece in Portuguese "Entre Vento e Areia" (Within Sand and Wind)

Written, imagined and choreographed by Davi Rodrigues

Lighting Designer | James Kokol

Music | Ramin Djawadi, Dead can Dance, Steve Jablonsky, Lenine, Greg Ellis, Meredith Monk & Mieke van Hoek edit by Davi Rodrigues

Performers | Lamondance season 6

Recorded at The Dance Centre, on June 6th, 2015

During the show, Rooted.

Lamondance Season 6

"This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

Fleeting moments are the stuff of which lasting memories are made.

Fleeting and Forever (10 min)
Choreography: Shauna Elton
Music: Syd Dale, Max Richter
Lighting design: Itai Erdal
Performers: Lamondance company

Recorded at The Dance Centre
Vancouver B.C. Canada
Lamondance Season 5

The Arrival

Choreography: Lara Barclay Music: Moondog, Herbert, Kathleen Battle, Joe Walker, Choral
Lighting Design: Cass Turner

The Arrival is an inspired adaptation of a graphic novel entitled “The Arrival” by Shaun Tan. It tells the story of an immigrant who lives in a long-forgotten time. A man leaves his wife and child seeking better prospects in an unknown country on the other side of a vast ocean. He finds himself in a bewildering city of foreign customs, peculiar animals, curious floating objects and indecipherable languages. With nothing more than a suitcase, the immigrant must find a place to live, food to eat and some kind of employment. He is helped along the way by sympathetic strangers, each carrying their own unspoken history: stories of struggle and survival in a world of incomprehensible violence, upheaval and hope.

Performers: Lauren Rose, Diego Araujo, Juliana Hettema, Krystal Kohan, Glynis Waring, Renan Carvalho, Heather Aucoin, Riley Langford, Luisa Gomes, Mariana Moraes, Pedro Vinicius, Nick Ventura, Davi Rodrigues

Recorded at The Dance Centre, on May 27th, 2012 During the show Here and After

Ways of being collide/coincide/coexist in space and time, exhibiting a range of performativity and process. The stage is a shared space and it’s constituents navigate togetherness without disruption or distraction.

Lamondance show "SPARK" 2016
Disposable Phenomena (7 min)
Choreography: David Norsworthy
Music: Ian Hawgood, Antony & The Johnsons, Johann Sebastian Bach

Beakuz A close look at the inner workings, relationships, and tribulations of all bird pop group.
Choreography
Heather Dotto
Music
Drehz, Johann Johannsson
Performers
Lamondance company

Recorded at BlueShore Financial for the Performing Arts at Capilano University.
June, 1st 2018
Vancouver, BC Canada

Kauã - Originally created for the show “WE” Lamondance season 8.

Choreography by Davi Rodrigues

Music by Marlui Miranda

Performed by Lamondance and Dance 2000

existing or present (9 min)

Choreography: Vanessa Goodman

Music: Straw Dogs, Anthropocene, Weeds 

Composer: Loscil

Kintsugi (10 min) 

Choreography: Shauna Elton

Music: Caribou, Sarah Vaughan, gold panda.

Sound editing and soundscape by Roger Morris

No Need For Words 14 min


Choreography: Lara Barclay


Music: Swod, The Notwist

No Need for Words explores global communication. Focusing on gestures and customs inherent to various cultures, the piece creates a dialogue between different people of the world. From hello to goodbye, the dancers describe what could take place if there were no longer any geographical borders.

Performers: Annie Au, Christie Lee Manning, Marcelle Lemos, Diego Pradela, Giovanna Faria, Thiago Fayad, Jee Lam, Kim Dixon, Taylor Marie-Dolan, Natasha Vlahovic, Joao Pedro De Paula, Davi Rodrigues

“Ubuntu - I Am Because We Are” originally created for Lamondance season 5, and remounted for season 9, Ubuntu is a powerful creation choreographed by our Artistic Director Davi Rodrigues. Ubuntu - I Am Because We Are World Premiere, June 2014.

Ubuntu is about the balance of life and the conflicts that arise between good and evil. These forces ultimately cannot exist without the other and are being put on a scale to maintain the balance of the universe. The bond of energy is broken, allowing light to reach all places.

Choreography Davi Rodrigues

Music Jorane, Ryan Amon, Carlos Núñez e José Miguel Winisk Sound edit by Davi Rodrigues

Performers Lamondance company season 9.