TSV Scholarship Program
Applications for our Spring 2024 Scholarship Program are NOW CLOSED!!
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Pictured: Kaili Che / Brianne Chan
2024 Scholarship Recipients
We are thrilled to welcome these scholarship recipients for Spring 2024:
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Chantal Gering (they/she/he) is a movement artist born on Huetar land colonially known as “Costa Rica” and grew up on Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh territory. They are informed by Liberated Planet Studios’ movement research, Adrienne Maree Brown’s Emergent Strategy, and their interspecies collaborations. Chantal centers in generative somatics to receive and liberate bodies “can you feel the land? she is dreaming through you” -Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Collective.
They graduated from UBC BFA Acting: some of their theatre works include Wings Over Water: A Diasporic Bird Play (Nanaimo/Vancouver Fringe), Papa Records Everything (NTS Art Apart), and Ode to Diaspora (STAND Festival). Chantal co-founded Shapeshifter Media Collective, creating dance films and spatial sound to archive queer/trans expression with a residency at Lobe Studio. Current projects: Queer Soul Poets collective residency, choreographing a poetry film about climate change and writing a play through the Ignite Youth Festival and Telling It Bent called seed stories, dreaming beyond latin america.
Anna Wang-Albini (they/she) is an emerging contemporary dance artist based in Vancouver, BC on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples.
Anna views the body as a place that holds layered subtexts, knowledge, and textures along with the wholeness of the person being observed. She considers choreography and dance as a means of leaving an impression of the fantasy of the artist in the viewer's mind and heart.
They have trained in Gaga, floor work, contact, release, and post/modern techniques. Anna holds a BFA/Honours in dance from Simon Fraser University, trained under scholarship with EDAM this past winter, and is eager to dance with TSV this season!
Anna has worked with the Falling Company (2023), Alexandra Caprara (2023), Rob Kitsos (2022-23), Bard on the Beach (2022), and Tin Gamboa (2022) among other wonderful artists. They are actively choreographing while also pursuing more training and performing opportunities.
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TESTIMONIALS
“The TSV is a safe and welcoming environment to train, explore, and discover movement and the Vancouver dance company” — Renata Monteón, Spring 2024 Scholarship Recipient
“The TSV scholarship program was great! It was exciting to try on a new class every week and have the space to work on my interests. The community is very supportive and there were lots of opportunities to connect and grow relationships. I really enjoyed this opportunity and can’t wait to take classes with TSV soon!” — Nicole Pavia, Fall 2023 Scholarship Recipient
“This was one of the most memorable and supportive experiences I’ve encountered! This scholarship program truly encouraged and created time for self-directed practicing and learning. I appreciate the enthusiasm, care, and passion from this organization and their ability to continue fostering the growth of artists within the dance community.” — Kaili Che, Winter 2023 Scholarship Recipient
“As a recent graduate Modus Operandi, the TSV Scholarship program gave me the privilege to keep learning and has helped me with transitioning from a student to a professional dance artist. It gave me a wonderful way to engage myself with new artistic and physical practices while also connecting with members of the dance community from all over the world. I had a great experience working with the TSV team and can't wait to keep taking class.” — Brianne Chan, Winter 2023 Scholarship Recipient
“Highly recommend this program! It was a great way to meet new people and build connections in the community. The variety instructors was very beneficial to my training in finding different approaches to movement. Would do it all over again if I could!” — Oksana Augustine, Fall 2022 Scholarship Recipient
“I've never experienced such diversity in dance. Through the different styles and teachers I got to explore my body in new ways, but also my mentality concerning movement in general.” — Dror Manuel Zipori, Fall 2022 Scholarship Recipient
