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April 16, 2025

2025-26 Application Updates

Thank you for Applying to New Works' Call for Applications 2025-26! In December 2024 we opened our call for applications to our annual summer series All Over The Map on Granville Island (8 spots), Studio and Theatre Residencies (3 spots), and our Summer Production Internship (1 spot). Over the next month we received 60+ applications, about 5x what we have resource to support! Thank you once again to every artist who took the time to apply; the Programming Staff Team and Program Advisory Committee carefully read and considered every application and appreciated the opportunity to get to know you and your work a little bit better. We always wrap up this process feeling excited, inspired, and bittersweet that we're not able to support more applicants.
April 15, 2025

NW Spotlight | NWXR Visual Journal

A visual journal exploring and documenting the 2025 NWXR season.
March 13, 2025

NW Spotlight | New Works Artist Support Programs Go International

Insights into France-Canada creative exchange: Since 2022, New Works has been supporting an international artistic collaboration project, initiated by Compagnie KHOR/Khoudia Touré (France/Senegal) with Out Innerspace Dance Theatre (Vancouver). Vancouver-based Alyssa (Lyzah) Favero shares their experience as a dance artist engaged in the most recent phase of this project – December, 2024.
February 18, 2025

NW Spotlight | Interwoven Connections

Inspired by Andrea Weber's writing on the experience of organisms as interconnected entities, Luciana and Kelly were drawn to ideas of evolution, symbiosis, and natural patterns that mirror human existence. From the microscopic scale of cellular growth to the vastness of the cosmos, their work reflects a fascination with the surreal and hyperreal aspects of nature—the unseen forces shaping our lives....
July 16, 2024

2024-25 Season Announcement

Mark your calendars; there is something exciting for everyone coming up this season! Last year we celebrated these relationships with special 30th anniversary programming. As we enter our fourth decade, the 24-25 season celebrates old friends, like Montreal based Tentacle Tribe and the Cultch – a throwback to our last presentation before the pandemic struck; and it marks the beginning of new associations as we support a world premiere from contemporary Kathak artist Gaurav Bhatti. Plus a host of residencies, studio showings, and other presentations – both familiar and fresh!
March 18, 2024

2024-25 Application Updates

Thank you for Applying to New Works' Call for Applications 2024-25! In January 2024 we opened our call for applications to All Over The Map performance opportunities (8 spots), Studio and Theatre Residencies (2 spots), and our Summer Production Internship (1 spot). Over one month we received 71 applications, double as many as we received last year! Thank you once again to every artist who took the time to apply; we carefully read and considered every application and appreciated the opportunity to get to know you and your work a little bit better.
May 21, 2021

Skwxwu7mesh Welcome

The Skwxwu7mesh Welcome, Greeting of the Day Song, and Squamish Paddle Song graciously provided by Rebecca Duncan.
May 17, 2021

pliant spaces: yat, yih, saam, sei

Still from Sarah Wong’s performance pliant spaces: yih. Sarah is dancing outside in a grassy area. She is facing the camera with both of her arms […]
May 17, 2021

Departure

Marissa performs on stage. She is dressed in a black long-sleeved shirt. She is turned to her left, away from the camera. Her left hand is […]
May 17, 2021

something somewhere else (Erika Mitsuhashi in collaboration with Daniel O’Shea)

How can something be both was it is and what it’s not?
May 17, 2021

Present in Absence: A Solo

Image Description: Photo of Kay wearing a yellow top and black bottoms on staircase. The wall and staircase including handrails are all blue. Kay holds the […]