KSAMB PERFORMANCES:
2022 FREEDOM, a 5-minute intervention with text. Dancers Kyle Syverson, Miki Mappin, Mitchell Larsen, Laura Harris, Annika Lessing, Haleh Mir Miri, Laura Hosaluk. SUM Theatre’s Last Sunday, Broadway Theatre.
2021 UTOPIA, a half hour outdoor improvised dance performance with audience interaction, lighting by Miki Mappin, dancers Kyle Syverson, Miki Mappin, Laura Harris, Annika Lessing, Haleh Mir Miri, Laura Hosaluk, River Landing Saskatoon.
2021 UNFOLDING, a half hour outdoor improvised dance performance with live music. Meewasin Trail. Musicians Lloyd Tomczak and Gregory Edmunds. Dancers Kyle Syverson, Miki Mappin, Laura Harris, Lexi Iron, Annika Lessing, Unity McNab and Haleh Mirmiri, Supported by the City of Saskatoon and Sask Lotteries.
2021 TIPPING POINT, four different half-hour scores for improvised performance. Three different outdoor locations and one in the River Room of the Remai Modern. For The Remai WEGO, with dancers Kyle Syverson, Miki Mappin, Laura Harris, Annika Lessing, Haleh Mirmiri and Tina Bertoncini.
2021 NUIT DE COULEURS, Two 45 minute performances in Saskatoon City Hall Square in February, with dancers Kyle Syverson, Miki Mappin, Laura Harris, Annika Lessing, Barry Trapp, Laura Hosaluk, Karla Kloeble, Somayyeh Zare and Willow Dalnoki. Improvising in real time with lighting designer J.J. Neufeld. Recorded music by Duane Dorgan, Ray Stephanson and Lee Kozak. Supported by The City of Saskatoon, Sask Lotteries and Production Lighting.
2020-21 WILD CARD MOVEMENT, a half hour outdoor improvised dance performance. Up to 10 dancers, aged 20-65. Weekly, in all weather, every Friday, September 2020 through February 2021 at City Hall Square, supported by the City of Saskatoon and Sask Lotteries. Then self-funded, weekly, at various Saskatoon locations until November 2021.
Link to 2020 Featured Performances
2020, TO THE HEART, a one-hour show performed outdoors to a live, physically distanced audience, Fridays during July, featuring live amplification of the dancers' heartbeats. Dancers Kyle Syverson and Miki Mappin with live mixing and interaction with audio technician Nicole Goertzen. Performed with a civic permit in City Hall Square, supported by a SK Arts IA Grant.
2020, BE LONELY, an 8-minute performance video to a poem by Laura Edna Lacey. Dancers Kyle Syverson, Miki Mappin, Annika Lessing, Laura Edna Lacey, Laurah Hosaluk and Alejandro Acevedo. Free Flow Dance Company International Dance Day.
Link to 2019 Featured Performances
2019, TRUST US? HERE, NOW, a 4 hour durational performance, dancers Kyle Syverson, Miki Mappin, Laura Harris, Annika Lessing, Alejandro Acevedo, Mitchell Larsen and Barry Trapp for Nuit Blanche, Saskatoon.
2019 HEART BEATS FALL 19, dancers Kyle Syverson and Miki Mappin, WIP, Free Flow Dance Centre. Saskatoon
2019 HERE, NOW, with dancers Kyle Syverson, Miki Mappin and Laura Harris, for Reel Rave Film Festival, Waskesiu.
2109 SUIT CASE, a new performance on the theme, with dancers Kyle Syverson, Miki Mappin, Laura Harris and Annika Lessing, at Trans Pride 19, in Regina, SK.
2019 TIME SHAPERS, an eight week exploration of improvisation, and a performance at Dance Saskatchewan by musician Duane Dorgan with dancers Kyle Syverson, Miki Mappin, Laura Harris, Annika Lessing, Arthur Despins, Autumn Dalnoki, Willow Dalnoki, Kaia Pas, Alejandro Acevedo, Shirley Spidla and Gladys Murphy, ranging in age from 7 to 91 years. Funded by a Creation Grant from Dance Saskatchewan.
Link to 2018 Featured Performances
2018 TIME LAB, a three week exploration of improvisation with musician Duane Dorgan and dancers Kyle Syverson, Miki Mappin, Laura Harris, Annika Lessing and Arthur Despins, funded by a Sask Arts Board Microgrant.
2018 SUIT CASE; a 3 hour durational performance, dancers Kyle Syverson, Miki Mappin and Laura Harris, for Nuit Blanche, Saskatoon.
2018 SUIT CASE; a performance in 5 parts, dancers Kyle Syverson, Laura Harris and Blair Charters, for Reel Rave Film Festival.
2018 SUIT CASE, dancers Kyle Syverson, Miki Mappin, Laura Harris, Annika Lessing and Arthur Despins, Back Alley Antics, Saskatoon.
2018 NEIGHBOURHOOD SUPERHEROES, a site specific performance, dancers Kyle Syverson, Miki Mappin, Laura Harris, Arthur Despins, Karla Kloeble and Mitchell Larsen. KSAMB Dance Co., Winter Shines Festival, Saskatoon.
2018 PANOPTICON, a one hour site specific performance by KSAMB Dance Co., dancers Miki Mappin, Kyle Syverson, Laura Harris and Annika Lessing, at LUGO, Remai Modern Museum, Saskatoon, Canada.
Link to 2017 Featured Performances
2017 MY PADDLE, dancers Kyle Syverson, Miki Mappin and Laura Harris, KSAMB Dance Co., PotashCorp Saskatoon Community Association Cultural Gala, TCU Place, Saskatoon.
2017 MY PADDLE, Reel Rave Film Festival, Waskesiu.
2017 INSIDE OF US, dancers Kyle Syverson, Miki Mappin, Laura Harris and Bryn
Williams, WIP, Free Flow Dance Centre.
2017 INSIDE OF US, audio and video design, dancers Kyle Syverson, Miki Mappin,
Laura Harris and Bryn Williams, Queer as Film Festival, Roxy Theatre,
Saskatoon.
2017 WINTERSHINES, a site specific performance, Winter Shines Festival.
2016 FEED THE DANCERS, a mobile site specific performance, Nuit Blanche,
Saskatoon
2016 DUET, Reel Rave Film Festival.
Link to 2014 Featured Performances
2014 MON PETIT CHOU, Culture Days, Dance Saskatchewan, Saskatoon.
2014 GUERRILLA POD, Nuit Blanche, Saskatoon.
2014 LILAC WINE, Reel Rave Film Festival.
2014 IMPROVISATION, with Duane Dorgan, Boishakhi Mela (Bengali New Year),
Saskatoon
Link to 2013 Featured Performances
2013 ON THE WAY TO 8, performance and audio, Free Flow Dance Theatre's Works
In Progress, Refinery Theatre, Saskatoon.
2013 LILAC WINE, Free Flow Dance Theatre's Back Alley Antics.
2013 SEA MOVES, Dance Saskatchewan.
2013 SNOW MOVES, Winter Shines Festival, Saskatoon.
2012 MOUNT MADONNA, Free Flow Dance Theatre’s 6th annual Back Alley Antics.
2011 747, Dance on the Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
2011 TRIO, with The Thankful Man, Free Flow Dance Theatre’s 6th annual Back Alley
Antics.
2010 PILOT K-9, dance collaboration with video by Brian Wagner, Paved Arts,
Saskatoon.
Link to 2010 KSAMB Ladder pieces.
2010 KSAMB 3, Convergence, The Refinery, Saskatoon.
2010 KSAMB 2, Reel Rave Festival, Waskesiu, Canada.
2010 KSAMB 1, Dance Saskatchewan’s Dance on the Saskatchewan, Saskatoon.
2010 TWO DUETS, LUGO, Mendel Gallery, Saskatoon.
2009 DUET, Free Flow Dance Theatre’s 3rd annual Back Alley Antics.
2021 UTOPIA, a half hour outdoor improvised dance performance with audience interaction, lighting by Miki Mappin, dancers Kyle Syverson, Miki Mappin, Laura Harris, Annika Lessing, Haleh Mir Miri, Laura Hosaluk, River Landing Saskatoon.
2021 UNFOLDING, a half hour outdoor improvised dance performance with live music. Meewasin Trail. Musicians Lloyd Tomczak and Gregory Edmunds. Dancers Kyle Syverson, Miki Mappin, Laura Harris, Lexi Iron, Annika Lessing, Unity McNab and Haleh Mirmiri, Supported by the City of Saskatoon and Sask Lotteries.
2021 TIPPING POINT, four different half-hour scores for improvised performance. Three different outdoor locations and one in the River Room of the Remai Modern. For The Remai WEGO, with dancers Kyle Syverson, Miki Mappin, Laura Harris, Annika Lessing, Haleh Mirmiri and Tina Bertoncini.
2021 NUIT DE COULEURS, Two 45 minute performances in Saskatoon City Hall Square in February, with dancers Kyle Syverson, Miki Mappin, Laura Harris, Annika Lessing, Barry Trapp, Laura Hosaluk, Karla Kloeble, Somayyeh Zare and Willow Dalnoki. Improvising in real time with lighting designer J.J. Neufeld. Recorded music by Duane Dorgan, Ray Stephanson and Lee Kozak. Supported by The City of Saskatoon, Sask Lotteries and Production Lighting.
2020-21 WILD CARD MOVEMENT, a half hour outdoor improvised dance performance. Up to 10 dancers, aged 20-65. Weekly, in all weather, every Friday, September 2020 through February 2021 at City Hall Square, supported by the City of Saskatoon and Sask Lotteries. Then self-funded, weekly, at various Saskatoon locations until November 2021.
Link to 2020 Featured Performances
2020, TO THE HEART, a one-hour show performed outdoors to a live, physically distanced audience, Fridays during July, featuring live amplification of the dancers' heartbeats. Dancers Kyle Syverson and Miki Mappin with live mixing and interaction with audio technician Nicole Goertzen. Performed with a civic permit in City Hall Square, supported by a SK Arts IA Grant.
2020, BE LONELY, an 8-minute performance video to a poem by Laura Edna Lacey. Dancers Kyle Syverson, Miki Mappin, Annika Lessing, Laura Edna Lacey, Laurah Hosaluk and Alejandro Acevedo. Free Flow Dance Company International Dance Day.
Link to 2019 Featured Performances
2019, TRUST US? HERE, NOW, a 4 hour durational performance, dancers Kyle Syverson, Miki Mappin, Laura Harris, Annika Lessing, Alejandro Acevedo, Mitchell Larsen and Barry Trapp for Nuit Blanche, Saskatoon.
2019 HEART BEATS FALL 19, dancers Kyle Syverson and Miki Mappin, WIP, Free Flow Dance Centre. Saskatoon
2019 HERE, NOW, with dancers Kyle Syverson, Miki Mappin and Laura Harris, for Reel Rave Film Festival, Waskesiu.
2109 SUIT CASE, a new performance on the theme, with dancers Kyle Syverson, Miki Mappin, Laura Harris and Annika Lessing, at Trans Pride 19, in Regina, SK.
2019 TIME SHAPERS, an eight week exploration of improvisation, and a performance at Dance Saskatchewan by musician Duane Dorgan with dancers Kyle Syverson, Miki Mappin, Laura Harris, Annika Lessing, Arthur Despins, Autumn Dalnoki, Willow Dalnoki, Kaia Pas, Alejandro Acevedo, Shirley Spidla and Gladys Murphy, ranging in age from 7 to 91 years. Funded by a Creation Grant from Dance Saskatchewan.
Link to 2018 Featured Performances
2018 TIME LAB, a three week exploration of improvisation with musician Duane Dorgan and dancers Kyle Syverson, Miki Mappin, Laura Harris, Annika Lessing and Arthur Despins, funded by a Sask Arts Board Microgrant.
2018 SUIT CASE; a 3 hour durational performance, dancers Kyle Syverson, Miki Mappin and Laura Harris, for Nuit Blanche, Saskatoon.
2018 SUIT CASE; a performance in 5 parts, dancers Kyle Syverson, Laura Harris and Blair Charters, for Reel Rave Film Festival.
2018 SUIT CASE, dancers Kyle Syverson, Miki Mappin, Laura Harris, Annika Lessing and Arthur Despins, Back Alley Antics, Saskatoon.
2018 NEIGHBOURHOOD SUPERHEROES, a site specific performance, dancers Kyle Syverson, Miki Mappin, Laura Harris, Arthur Despins, Karla Kloeble and Mitchell Larsen. KSAMB Dance Co., Winter Shines Festival, Saskatoon.
2018 PANOPTICON, a one hour site specific performance by KSAMB Dance Co., dancers Miki Mappin, Kyle Syverson, Laura Harris and Annika Lessing, at LUGO, Remai Modern Museum, Saskatoon, Canada.
Link to 2017 Featured Performances
2017 MY PADDLE, dancers Kyle Syverson, Miki Mappin and Laura Harris, KSAMB Dance Co., PotashCorp Saskatoon Community Association Cultural Gala, TCU Place, Saskatoon.
2017 MY PADDLE, Reel Rave Film Festival, Waskesiu.
2017 INSIDE OF US, dancers Kyle Syverson, Miki Mappin, Laura Harris and Bryn
Williams, WIP, Free Flow Dance Centre.
2017 INSIDE OF US, audio and video design, dancers Kyle Syverson, Miki Mappin,
Laura Harris and Bryn Williams, Queer as Film Festival, Roxy Theatre,
Saskatoon.
2017 WINTERSHINES, a site specific performance, Winter Shines Festival.
2016 FEED THE DANCERS, a mobile site specific performance, Nuit Blanche,
Saskatoon
2016 DUET, Reel Rave Film Festival.
Link to 2014 Featured Performances
2014 MON PETIT CHOU, Culture Days, Dance Saskatchewan, Saskatoon.
2014 GUERRILLA POD, Nuit Blanche, Saskatoon.
2014 LILAC WINE, Reel Rave Film Festival.
2014 IMPROVISATION, with Duane Dorgan, Boishakhi Mela (Bengali New Year),
Saskatoon
Link to 2013 Featured Performances
2013 ON THE WAY TO 8, performance and audio, Free Flow Dance Theatre's Works
In Progress, Refinery Theatre, Saskatoon.
2013 LILAC WINE, Free Flow Dance Theatre's Back Alley Antics.
2013 SEA MOVES, Dance Saskatchewan.
2013 SNOW MOVES, Winter Shines Festival, Saskatoon.
2012 MOUNT MADONNA, Free Flow Dance Theatre’s 6th annual Back Alley Antics.
2011 747, Dance on the Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
2011 TRIO, with The Thankful Man, Free Flow Dance Theatre’s 6th annual Back Alley
Antics.
2010 PILOT K-9, dance collaboration with video by Brian Wagner, Paved Arts,
Saskatoon.
Link to 2010 KSAMB Ladder pieces.
2010 KSAMB 3, Convergence, The Refinery, Saskatoon.
2010 KSAMB 2, Reel Rave Festival, Waskesiu, Canada.
2010 KSAMB 1, Dance Saskatchewan’s Dance on the Saskatchewan, Saskatoon.
2010 TWO DUETS, LUGO, Mendel Gallery, Saskatoon.
2009 DUET, Free Flow Dance Theatre’s 3rd annual Back Alley Antics.
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5 minute video of excerpts from KSAMB Dance Co. collaborations from 2007-2010
Kyle Syverson and Miki Mappin (Michael Bantjes) Video by Miki |
