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Photo Yvonne Chew
Kayla (she/they) is a human being made of approximately 7 octillion (7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) atoms, residing on the ancestral land of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̅íl̅witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) territories (Vancouver, B.C.).
Kayla organizes these atoms to laugh, grieve, drink decaf coffee, rest, create dance, hike, and imagine new futures that resource artists and their relationships to material resources through bookkeeping and somatic financial education.
Photo Chantal Richard-Mercier
Meredith (she/her) has been on staff with CADA/West since 2012, administering the Training Subsidy Program (TSP).
Beyond her work with CADA/West, Meredith is a two-time Chrystal Dance Prize recipient, dancer, choreographer, and teacher. Her choreographic explorations have touched on everything from giraffes and Girl Guides to constellations, superheroes, skeletons, past entertainers, and questions of female identity.
Meredith trained with Ballet BC in Vancouver before launching her independent career, which has taken her across Canada, Europe, and Australia. Highlights include performing Jessica Lowe’s Enchantress at Coastal Currents and Island Fringe, collaborating with theatre dramaturg Raina von Waldenburg, presenting work at Dancing on the Edge in Vancouver, and creating with Mocean Dance. Her full-length work Femme Fatales toured to Victoria, Edmonton, and Berlin’s Uferstudios in 2017.
Alongside her creative projects, Meredith is deeply interested in reframing the role of ballet for 21st-century bodies, and in inviting people into dynamic movement through education, knowledge-sharing, and community-engaged practices. She also produces The Underground, an immersive speakeasy event in Halifax.
Photo Shawn Kim
Victor (he/him) is a Vietnamese-Canadian street dancer and choreographer creating across unceded MST territories/Vancouver and Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Representing crews Now or Never and Floorstorm, Victor is known in the underground scene as B-Boy Savage Rock and as one half of the Hustle duo, Savage & Samuelle.
With a background as a grassroots artist, producer, and community leader, and armed with a BA in Public Policy, Savage brings over two decades of lived street dance knowledge to his work with CADA/West and the wider dance community.
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