Donna Redlick

The following are a few hi-lights of works presented by Donna Redlick Dance over the years:

2023-2024
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A film focusing on the proprioceptive and sensing experience through a surface to surface relationship.
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choreography and film: Donna Redlick
dance interpreter: Carolina Bergonzoni
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2017-2018
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​"None of us stands outside humanity's black collective self." - Carl Jung
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A work inspired by the 'shadow self' as well as tales shared and imagined about Vancouver's Blood Alley. Truth and reality blur to create a hybrid reality, the result is evocative landscapes of the human experience on death, life, darkness and a search for light and hope. ​
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choreography: Donna Redlick
dancers in 2018 cast: Salome Nieto, Alisoun Payne, Olivia Shaffer, and Cara Siu.
dancers in 2017 cast: Salome Nieto, Alisoun Payne and Amy Woods.
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Body as Site
2014-2017​
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"Space is not the setting in which things are arranged, but the means whereby the position of things becomes possible." - Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Body as Site is a dance installation event integrating dance, sculpture and architecture. Measuring devices are brought to the body to invite a kinesthetic experience to inform architectural landscapes through space and time. As sites unfold they become artifacts of the dancers' moving experiences.
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Concept and Choreographic Direction: Donna Redlick
Dancers involved in project: Salome Nieto, Mireille Rosner, Maikki Uotila-Kraatz, Amy Woods, and Donna Redlick.
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Architectural Consultant: Rui Nunes
Folds (and matters of the flesh)
2012
A film and a live dance intersect exploring how inner and outer corporeal space envelop in a symbiotic relationship by foregrounding 'being-in-sensation' to witness the body in a continuous enfolding-unfolding relationship.
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Concept, film, choreography and performance:
Donna Redlick


2010-2011
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An interactive dance installation performance that explores the physical, psychological and emotional space and places of the "in-between". Mirrors and text are integrated into the work creating reflections and proposing questions. The relationship between viewer and performer continually changes - through reflections.
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Concept and Choreography: Donna Redlick
Dancers 2011 cast: Jeannine Miller, Salome Nieto, and Donna Redlick
Dancers 2011 cast: Leslie Dyer, Salome Nieto, and Donna Redlick
Site Performances
Surface​ - 2017
Woodward's Atrium, Vancouver
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​Dance in Vancouver: Choreography Walk
2016
Blood Alley, Vancouver
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Umbrella Dance - 2010
Deer Lake Park, Burnaby





Horizontal Longings
2010
Performed against a backdrop of moving images of wheatfields and trains, filmed in the Saskatchewan Prairies. This piece explores a longing to return to the landscape of earth and sky that Donna grew up in.
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Choreography: Donna Redlick
Dancers: Leslie Dyer and Donna Redlick
Sometimes it never leaves the skin
2008-2010
Autobiographical in nature this solo is a physical etching of a personal journey and dialogues on fragility, strength, fear and desire. By diving deep into the inner landscape of the body memories are revealed within the crevices of self.
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Choreography and direction: Donna Redlick
Performer/ Dancer: Salome Nieto (formally Diaz)


2006
A solo investigating the fluid self.
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choreography and film: Donna Redlick
dancer: Stephanie Pintar
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a solo commissioned by Maindance
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(re)calling memory
2004-2005
A series of works exploring how imagination and memory are linked, evoked by image, object, and the human spirit.
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Choreography: Donna Redlick
Dancers: Mara Branscombe, Celeste Lyon, Mireille Rosner, and Megan Ross.
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Mother's Dresses
2002
A dance solo in collaboration with visual and textile artist Sharon Kallis. Dresses are sewn from Magnolia leaves and then hung in space revealing a haunting forest-like environment. The dance solo animates the dresses in space and time allowing the installation to come to life.
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Installation: Sharon Kallis
Performance and choreography: Donna Redlick
Poetry of Chaos
1998-1999
Inspired by the multiple forms, patterns, and kinetic energy within Kandinsky's paintings. This trio explores perpetual shifting and changing of form through space, time and energy.
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Choreography: Donna Redlick
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Dancers in 1998 cast:
Tasha Lawson, Donna Redlick and Kim Wolski
Dancers in 1997 cast:
Tasha Lawson, Cara Sui, and Kim Wolski
