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For a guest list from
the 2009/2010 season, click here.
Guest Artists,
Teachers and Choreographers for the 2010/2011 Season
Bleiddyn Bellis
 Ms.
Bellis has recently returned from the UK to take
over as Director of Island Dance Studio, Victoria
BC. Before moving to the UK in 2003, she was a
faculty member of Arts Umbrella in Vancouver, BC. In
the UK, Bleiddyn was a dance staff member at
Liver-pool Theatre School, Kate Simmons Schools and
most recently the Hammond School in Chester. While
on staff at Hammond, she was a choreographer for the
Senior School's professional touring company,
Taudevin, and was responsible for establishing the
Cecchetti method within the professional school's
curriculum.
She has been a frequent guest
teacher and lecturer for organizations such as the
British Ballet Organization, Northern Scholars, the
Cecchetti Northern Associates of the UK, and
"Dancing Days" (BBO), Elmhust. Most recently she was
invited to be guest teacher for The Royal Winnipeg
Ballet School Summer Dance Intensive 2008 and 2009.
Since returning to Canada she has worked to develop
the Bridge Program, a joint Professional
Training Program with both Island Dance Studio and
Ballet Victoria for Post Secondary Students. She is
a Fellow of the Imperial Society of Teachers of
Dancing (CSB), holds the Enrico Cecchetti Final
Diploma, and has been awarded the Certificate in
Dance Education(CDE) by the ISTD.
Karissa Barry
 Beginning
her dance training at the Edmonton School of Ballet, Karissa furthered
her studies at Cecchetti Dance Theatre, The Banff Centre, Arts Umbrella,
Ballet BC’s mentor program and the Impulstanz workshops in Vienna,
Austria. In Vancouver
Karissa has performed for Amber Funk Barton, Alison Denham, Daniel
Conrad, Marla Eist, MovEnt, Science Friction, Shannon Moreno, The
Vancouver Opera, as well as spending 8 seasons with Wen Wei Dance,
performing across Canada, China, Colombia and Singapore. In Montreal she
has worked with Sylvain Emard Danse, performing and touring across
Europe and the U.K., and with EzDanza on numerous projects performing
throughout Quebec and in New York City. Karissa has created her own
works for Ballet BC’s Mentor Program, Brief Encounters, Cecchetti Dance
Theatre, Dancestreams, Modus Operandi, Twelve Minutes Max and Bend
Sinister’s music video “time breaks down”. Also a part time instructor,
Karissa has taught workshops and guest classes at Domaine Forget, Modus
Operandi, Contemporary Technique Series and Drive Dance Centre.
Serge Bennathan
 Serge
Bennathan was the
artistic director of Toronto’s Dancemakers from 1990 to 2006. The
French-born choreographer trained in Paris in classical and
modern dance before working professionally with Roland Petit’s Ballet
de Marseille. Prior to his arrival in Canada in 1985, he directed
his own company in Cannes for four years.
Twelve
works of Bennathan for Dancemakers have received Dora Mavor Moore
nominations with both Sable/Sand and The Satie Project
receiving the award for Outstanding New Choreography. Bennathan has been
commissioned by many dance companies and festivals, including Teatro
San Martin Ballet Contemporaneo in Buenos Aires, Le Jeune Ballet
International de Cannes, the Canada Dance Festival, Les Ballets de Monte
Carlo, Ballet British Columbia, The National Ballet of Canada, and
the Canada Japan New Creators Series.
Also
known for his extensive work with opera companies and directors,
Bennathan has collaborated with the Flanders Opera, Grand Théâtre de
Genève, the Metropolitan Opera Company and the Canadian Opera Company (COC).
His many collaborations with the COC include Venus and Adonis in
2000-01, the 2002 remount of Salome with Atom Egoyan, a
collaboration with director Tom Diamond on Handel’s Julius Caesar
in 2002, and the spring 2003 remount of Bennathan’s choreography for
Jenůfa. His direction and choreography for John Blow’s Venus and
Adonis earned Bennathan two Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations, for
Outstanding Direction – Musical and Outstanding Choreography. In 2005,
Bennathan directed his first mainstage opera, Rossini’s Tancredi, at the
COC.
Serge Bennathan
lives now in Vancouver where he created Les Productions FIGLIO.
The first creation of les Productions FIGLIO, “The Invisible
Life of Joseph Finch” a play with actor Jonathon Young was created
in 2007 in Vancouver and was performed at the Fringe Festival of
Singapore in January 2008 and toured Canada in January/February 2209.
The second
creation” Manga”, a duet for Susie Burpee and
Linnea Swan, premiered in Vancouver and Toronto in November 2007.
Sara Coffin
 Sara is the recipient of the Iris garland
Emerging Choreographers Award (2009) and the 2005 BC Emerging Dance
Artist Award, awarded by the Holy Body Tattoo. She completed her BFA in
dance at Simon Fraser University's School for the Contemporary Arts, and
her Kinesiology degree (BSc K) from Dalhousie University. Currently Ms.
Coffin teaches contemporary dance at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts
and has acted as the assistant dance programmer since 2006.
Notable artists Sara has worked with include SiNS dance, Jennifer
Clarke, Claire French, Daelik of MACHiNENOiSY, Mascall Dance, Susan
Elliott, Kinesis Dance, Susan Lee and Leeward Dance, Lesandra Dodson,
Deborah Dunn, Peter Chin, and the TILT sound + motion dance company.
Sara also had the pleasure of working as an understudy with The Holy
Body Tattoo in their work "monumental" (2003-2005). Coffin has been
supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the BC Arts Council for
professional development, and creation/production. Further Awards
include the Santa Aloi Award (2010), BC Arts Council Senior Scholarship
Award for choreography (2002), and The Pat Richards Choreographic Award
(1998, 1999).
Coffin's work has been presented throughout Nova Scotia, in Toronto,
Victoria and Vancouver; including Dancing on The Edge (Vancouver), ROMP!
(Victoria), Dances for a Small Stage , 12 Min Max, Toronto's 808 series,
with TILT's Choreographic Workshop (Toronto) and Video-In (Vancouver).
Sara is s co-founder for SINS dance (sometimes in Nova Scotia), a dance
collective that traverses Canada. As a choreographer Sara is interested
in the vulnerability of the human body and our connection and function
to technology as a society.
Tiffany Tregarthen
 Born in Prince George, BC, Tiffany Tregarthen's professional
career started in New York with companies including Mia Michaels' R.A.W. and
continued to an 8-month performing/choreographic residency with POZ Dance
Theatre in Seoul, Korea. During this period she also co-created an International
Children's Dance Program and guest instructed at Hansung University. She later
spent a year in Vancouver to create several works for Pacific Dance Arts ballet
program along side her continued independent research and creation before
performing a solo work by David Raymond. The two went on to hold a 2-year
residency centred in Antwerp, Belgium where she co-created and performed in
works with Irma Swynen at various festivals, created works for Ghent
Conservatory for the Arts and Fontys Dance University in Tilburg, The
Netherlands as well as instructed and trained at international seminars in
Belgium, Italy and The Czech Republic. Upon her return to Vancouver in 2007 she
and David formed Out Innerspace Dance Theatre as the forum for their ongoing
collaborative projects beginning with a series of duets performed at The
Vancouver International Dance Festival, Dances for a Small Stage, Dance in
Vancouver, Dance in Victoria among others and recently premiering the 60 minute
quintet 'Vessel'. As an initiative of Out Innerspace, the contemporary dance
program Modus Operandi is in its fourth season of educating and connecting young
emerging professionals with the Vancouver Dance community. Additionally Tiffany
created a new work for Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal as one of the
winners of the National Young Choreographer Competition. She has recently
performed in works for Wen Wei Dance, Simone Orlando,The Vancouver Opera and Gao
Yanjinzi and looks forward to upcoming works with Julia Sasso, Justine Chambers
and Wen Wei Dance.
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