MovEnt Profile:
Founded in 2001, MovEnt is a Vancouver based, charitable non-profit dance society devoted to producing new contemporary dance work, supporting dance artists and developing an audience for contemporary dance.
MovEnt continues to produce the popular Dances for a Small Stage series, which showcases fantastic contemporary dance on a minuscule stage at a Vancouver Legion.
MovEnt produces dance that encourages high expectations and produces accessible, engaging art.
Artistic Producer: Julie-anne Saroyan
As Artistic Producer of MovEnt since its inception in 2001, she has produced many dance events including all instalments of the MovEnt series Dances for a Small Stage in Vancouver, at the Canada Dance Festival (2006) and at The National Arts Centre in Ottawa.
After graduating with a BFA in dance from York University in 1993, she then attended the Banff Centre as an intern for dance stage management.
Julie-anne has had the pleasure of working with many dance artists and companies including Ballet BC, Lola Dance, Serge Bennathan, Margie Gillis, Emily Molnar, Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg and has toured for many years with Crystal Pite/Kidd Pivot as Stage Manager.
MovEnt gratefully acknowledges financial support from our funders:
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