Summer Studio Artist Residency 2024
Artist in Residence
Tin Gamboa
In residence Summer 2024 at Q7
Meet Tin
Tin Gamboa is a Filipina dance artist who primarily resides on MST homelands (Vancouver). She is focused on cultivating a cross-cultural arts practice between both places she calls home, Canada and the Philippines. She recently completed her MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at SFU, taught as part-time faculty at De La Salle Benilde College, and created and performed a new piece at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ Koryolab 2023. She is excited to be engaging with the Vancouver dance community in various capacities as a choreographer, administrator, writer, and dancer. Devoted to being a lifelong student and artist, Tin is hopeful about the questions, juicy conversations, and creations that are born out of collective and thoughtful art-making.
At this residency with New Works, I am most excited to start inviting dancers and non-dancers alike to join in a community practice of dama, which in Tagalog means 'to sense.' dama is a movement and sound score that I formally started exploring at Koryolab 2023 residency with the Cultural Center of the Philippines, then at Odd Meridian's Foray residency.
At this next phase of research, I will explore dama, not just as a choreographic tool, but also as a collective practice to test the functions of the score and its potential to fall within the umbrella of contemporary folk.
Photos by Forest Borch
Among a competitive pool of applications, Tin was awarded residency space at New Works within the 2023-24 season. New Works strives to build process-focused artist-lead residency space that is responsive to the creative’s need.
A New Works residency is a safe space for creative risk taking.
This creation studio residency at Q7 is in partnership with Out Innerspace.
