CADA/West > Outreach > PRO PRACTICE
Sun Mar 8 at VS Creative Lab |
| 10:00am | Feldenkrais w/ Francesca Frewer |
| 11:15pm | Waving w/ Eric Cheung aka Squidjit |
| 12:15pm | LUNCH BREAK |
| 12:45pm | Powwow w/ Nyla Bedard | 2:00pm | Working as a Multi-Hyphenate Artist w/ Simran Sachar |
Space is limited. If plans change, please contact us.
Francesca Frewer is a contemporary dance artist and Feldenkrais® practitioner living as a grateful guest on the unceded, ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil‑Waututh First Nations. Her practice celebrates movement as a conversation with the vast and layered unfolding unknown. Encompassing contemporary dance, The Feldenkrais Method, improvisation, and Contact Improvisation, her practice and her classes pursue a sense of embodied freedom, expansive awareness, grounded autonomy, and togetherness.
Photo Sebastian Palencia
Eric Cheung is a street dance and inter‑disciplinary artist based in so‑called Vancouver, on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̱əm, Skwxwú7mesh and Səḻílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh Nations. Eric has cultivated a singular approach to movement with his base and specialization in Popping, incorporating outside influences and other dance styles recognised nationally and internationally.
Eric is a company member of Ouro Collective, a street dance contemporary company, partaking in the creation process of HAKO, SOTTO51, Fire06, and 7y98D (Stage / Film) in collaboration with RubberLegZ.
Nyla Bedard is a multifaceted performing artist of Tahltan, Kaska, French, and Scottish heritage. Nyla has been powwow dancing since the age of three, traveling across Turtle Island to dance at various powwows and festivals for over 35 years. She teaches the history and steps of various powwow styles and co‑founded the popular Powwow Bootcamp with Raven Spirit Dance Company. Nyla is also an actor, writer, and a mom of two./p>
Today is the evening to strike lightning (Indian Summer Festival, 2025); photo Marshall To
Simran Sachar is a choreographer, dancer, teacher, writer, and actor who currently dedicates time to their artistic practice in Vancouver, Canada on the unceded, ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil‑Waututh Nations.
A captivating anomaly in contemporary, commercial, and street dance, her work, rooted in her lineage and lived experiences, bends W*acking towards the grotesque and the spiritual, using rhythm to carry what endures. She works across TV/film, theatre, XR, and public art. Sachar has won and placed high at numerous (open/all styles and W*acking) street dance battles across Canada and the United States.
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