News & Spotlights 

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.

Today I’m finishing a cycle with New Works, getting ready for a new adventure in arts administration as Manager of Education & Engagement at Ballet BC, and reflecting with gratitude on my journey at this organization (New Works)—one that has accompanied me through many life transitions in Canada: immigration, shifting from being only a dance artist into a cultural worker, transforming cocoon beliefs and self-distrust into feeling empowered and in the right heart to keep making spaces where artists and communities intersect so we can become better humans together. Below are scattered thoughts as I recall bits of the journey. I’m sure this is not an end—its ripples will keep spreading, because we are our interactions, and the genealogy of our relationships.

Today I’m finishing a cycle with New Works, getting ready for a new adventure in arts administration as Manager of Education & Engagement at Ballet BC, and reflecting with gratitude on my journey at this organization (New Works)—one that has accompanied me through many life transitions in Canada: immigration, shifting from being only a dance artist into a cultural worker, transforming cocoon beliefs and self-distrust into feeling empowered and in the right heart to keep making spaces where artists and communities intersect so we can become better humans together. Below are scattered thoughts as I recall bits of the journey. I’m sure this is not an end—its ripples will keep spreading, because we are our interactions, and the genealogy of our relationships.