Shows
June 5 & 6 Imago at Dancing on the Edge Festival in Vancouver
Imago
Imago is a “visually stunning, emotionally resonant” (Ed Fest Mag) contemporary aerial dance duet. Winner of the IC Best Production award at the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the work explores the fragile space between holding onto another and letting them go. The title refers both to the final winged stage of an insect after metamorphosis and to an archetypal image carried within the psyche. Drawing on these meanings, Imago reflects on the figures we hold within us—and the transformation of the beheld once freed from another’s hold.
Critics have praised it as “an incredibly impressive feat of acrobatics, staging, and sound design” (Fest), “a beautifully executed and contemplative experience” (Edinburgh Festival for Kids), and “a thoughtful and beautiful take on circus and aerial skills” (Voice Mag).
“Imago carries you with it, skyward… somewhere beyond words.” — Three Weeks
Direction, Choreography + Original Cast: Gabrielle Martin + Jeremiah Hughes
Current Cast: Jeremiah Hughes + Brenna Metzmeier
Lighting Design: Sophie Tang
All music composed by Nicolas Bernier
Except ○ I composed by Nicolas Bernier + Simon Trottier
Costumes: Amy McDougall
Photos: Chris Randle
Voice Mag
Fest
The QR
Ed Fest Mag
Scots Gay Arts
Three Weeks
Imago was created with the support of Canada Council for the Arts, British Columbia Arts Council, Cirkör LAB, Centre de création, Résidences Ponctuelles of Espace catastrophe // Centre International de Création des Arts du Cirque, The Dance Centre, Dancing on the Edge Festival, and KW Studios.
Drift
Premiered May 21-23, 2026 at The Dance Centre
Drift inhabits the haunted aftermath of the anthropocene, where the human form has dissolved into the backdrop of a landscape scarred by its own existence.
Direction: Gabrielle Martin & Jeremiah Hughes
Choreography: Gabrielle Martin & Jeremiah Hughes with performing artists
Performing artists: Andréane Leclerc, Arash Khakpour, Davi Rodrigues, Nicole Rose Bond, Vanessa Goodman
Associate performer: Ysadora Dias
Music: Jo Hirabayashi
Lighting: Jeremiah Hughes with Itai Erdal & Chengyan Boon
Drift was created with the support of Canada Council for the Arts, British Columbia Arts Council and The Dance Centre Artist-in-Residency program (Vancouver, BC).
Throe
Throe explores our interdependence in the aftermath of our future disaster; in a world of aerial ropes, six powerful performers cling to what remains in the throes of survival.
"A fresh new choreographic language" - Stir Vancouver
Directors-choreographers: Gabrielle Martin & Jeremiah Hughes
Aerialist-Dancers: Marissa Wong, Brenna Metzmeier,
Juan Duarte, Jeremiah Hughes, Alex Tam, Brianne Chan
Former cast includes: Eowynn Enquist, Isak Enquist, Darian Mark
Composer: Jo Hirabayashi
Lighting Designer: Sophie Tang
Costume Designer: Amy McDougall
Photo: Chris Randle
Throe was created in a 2021-22 residency at The Dance Centre (Vancouver, BC) and premiered November 17-19, 2022 as part of the Global dance Connections series at The Dance Centre. It has since been presented at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts in 2023 and Chilliwack Cultural Centre, dance Immersion (Toronto), and Arts Revelstoke in 2024.
