Residency Reflections

An intimate look into artistic process

Each season, with generous partnership from the Roundhouse Community Centre, New Works supports 1 - 3 artists in a Theatre Residency; dedicated time in a fully-equipped theatre setting to develop a new piece or facet of their practice without the pressure of a pending performance. These artist-led residencies provide essential space, time, and theatrical resources, supporting artists as they bridge their work from the studio to the stage.

At the culmination of each residency, artists welcome the public into a shared moment of curiosity and reflection; this is Residency Reflections. The artist chooses the format of the reflection - maybe an artist talk, open rehearsal, workshop, performance, or installation - as best serves their work and process.

By bringing our focus to creative practice, not creation, Residency Reflections centers artist-audience exchange and celebrates the often unseen moments of creation — the questions, experiments, and relationships that shape new choreographic work.

Residency Reflections 2026/27 Artists

Presented in partnership with the Roundhouse Community Centre, Residency Reflections invites audiences into the theatre for a behind the scenes look at preparations for the artists' upcoming premiere performances.

Each season, with generous partnership from the Roundhouse Community Centre, New Works supports 1 - 3 artists in a Theatre Residency; dedicated time in a fully-equipped theatre setting to develop a new piece or facet of their practice without the pressure of a pending performance. These artist-led residencies provide essential space, time, and theatrical resources, supporting artists as they bridge their work from the studio to the stage.

At the culmination of each residency, artists welcome the public into a shared moment of curiosity and reflection; this is Residency Reflections. The artist chooses the format of the reflection - maybe an artist talk, open rehearsal, workshop, performance, or installation - as best serves their work and process.

By bringing our focus to creative practice, not creation, Residency Reflections centers artist-audience exchange and celebrates the often unseen moments of creation — the questions, experiments, and relationships that shape new choreographic work.

Alexa Solveig Mardon

Alexa’s newest work, good loser, builds connections across cultures and communities, weaving together live music, movement, lighting, physical art objects, and more. Audiences are invited into the theatre to experience the work as it develops.

This residency will be focused on finalizing lighting design and audience seating arrangement for the premiere in November.

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Alexandra Caprara

Our residency will be focused on experimenting and fine-tuning our design elements in relation to our choreography, with a specific focus on working with our video system, lights, and sound.
This residency will culminate with an informal sharing open to our community, where we will present a work-in-progress run of the piece, and engage in an informal talkback to be in conversation with audiences.

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Summer Studio Residencies 2026/27

Over the summer, New Works often partners with Out Innerspace to offer in-studio residency time at Q7. This intensive period allows artists space to focus in on their craft with no pressure to pressure to show or share a final product.

Dr T'uy't'tanat-Cease Wyss

I will be workshopping my new project that I will be collaborating with Mi'Quel Dangeli -

an Indigenous choreographer and professional dancer who will be mentoring me and my family

and my daughter, and my granddaughters on a new work that I am commissioning her for.

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Salomé Nieto and elika mojtabaei مجتبایی الیکا

Salomé and elika will co-lead this project with costumes and movement playing equal parts.
A core activity will be the creation of experimental surrealist costume prototypes.
They will restrict, conceal, distort, transform and reveal the dancer’s body, actively
shaping how movement is generated. Costume functions as a material force that
actively produces movement and meaning alongside the dance.

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NWXR Summer Residency 2026

NWXR artists are invited to dive into dedicated time and space to explore a new project or new facet of their dance+technology practice. Presented in partnership with Chimerik 似不像, this residency is envisioned as an opportunity for an emerging embodied and new technology artist (or artists) to push the boundaries of their practice, take creative risks, and dive into the process of development.

Jason Wu Kitikul

During the NWXR Summer Residency (August 6–8, 2026), the focus will be on the technical and artistic integration of Neural Genesis: Chaotic Embodiment.

The project utilizes a Kinect V2 sensor and TouchDesigner to track a dancer’s movements in real-time, generating a "digital nervous system" that reacts to their physical state.

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What is a New Works Residency?

New Works supports dance artists through a diversity of residency opportunities each season.

A New Works residency is a safe space for creative risk taking. Opportunities are built as process-focused artist-lead residency spaces which are responsive to the creative’s needs. This may look like time in the studio, in the theatre, or a mix of the two, and may or may not include a public sharing.