KSAMB is at The Remai Modern!
Our latest project at the Remai, Urgent Garden, is a series of movement workshops and performances that respond to the current moment of political upheaval and environmental crisis through a community formed and informed contemporary dance performance. Featuring live experimental sound, the workshops and performances take place from May 21-24 at Remai Modern and the nearby locations of Optimist Park and the Pleasant Hill community garden. All events are free and open to the public. Stay tuned for more details as this project develops.
KSAMB Dance Company is participating in the 2025-2026 Sustained Artist Mentorship Program at the Remai Modern. Our underlying theme this winter is land back.
From September 2025 until August 2026, KSAMB Dance Company will be investigating, rehearsing and performing at the Remai. The Sustained Artist Mentorship Program supports local artists working in the realm of performance and public practice. KSAMB will receive financial supports, access to museum resources and professional development opportunities. The museum will work in collaboration with KSAMB to develop a program that includes research, public engagement such as artist talks or workshops, and the development and presentation of new work or work in progress. KSAMB began with a program of experimental performances in the public spaces of the Remai Modern, every second Saturday, plus a Sunday performance by the All Bodies group, and Contact Improvisation Jams with live music in the Riverview Room, open to the public. remaimodern.org/art-artists/sustained-artist-mentorship-program/
From September 2025 until August 2026, KSAMB Dance Company will be investigating, rehearsing and performing at the Remai. The Sustained Artist Mentorship Program supports local artists working in the realm of performance and public practice. KSAMB will receive financial supports, access to museum resources and professional development opportunities. The museum will work in collaboration with KSAMB to develop a program that includes research, public engagement such as artist talks or workshops, and the development and presentation of new work or work in progress. KSAMB began with a program of experimental performances in the public spaces of the Remai Modern, every second Saturday, plus a Sunday performance by the All Bodies group, and Contact Improvisation Jams with live music in the Riverview Room, open to the public. remaimodern.org/art-artists/sustained-artist-mentorship-program/
January 25, Connect Contact Improv Jam, at the Remai Modern, Riverview Room.
Connecting percussionist Laurent Boucher with trombonist Tiess McKenzie and dancers: Contact Improvisation (CI) practitioners and students, All Bodies dancers, Sunday Just Dance movers, and members of the public interested in improvised dance and music.
Connecting percussionist Laurent Boucher with trombonist Tiess McKenzie and dancers: Contact Improvisation (CI) practitioners and students, All Bodies dancers, Sunday Just Dance movers, and members of the public interested in improvised dance and music.
December 27, Falling Queer Remai Modern. From 10 AM to 5 PM, Miki Mappin performed a durational solo in the Remai Modern entrance Atrium. Falling Queer is a score KSAMB has been working on since 2022, exploring its possibilities in different environments and configurations.
December 13, we performed Navigations on 3 floors of the public space of the Remai. We danced with our eyes closed, and wondered, who feels more exposed, the viewer who happens upon it, or the performers?
December 7, the All Bodies group performed with trombonist Tiess McKenzie in the open spaces of the Remai Modern, in preparation for Shaggy Staging at Persephone.
November 27, we hosted a Contact Improvisation Jam with percussionist Laurent Boucher in the Riverview Room of the Remai Modern.
November 15, was Time Back. This was a 58 minute exploration of very slow unfolding movement performed by Kyle Syverson in the Marquee Gallery with the Great Plains exhibition.
Bringing In the River, Nov 1, 2025
November 1, Bringing in the River, was a ritual of sorts, celebrating and considering our personal experiences of the South Saskatchewan River and the socio-political context in which the river and the Remai meet. A trio of dancers, inspired by our 2022 Carte Blanche, embodied the wild and cultured, fantastical and mundane, sacred and profane, without fearing the ridiculous and sublime.
October 18, we performed our first movement intervention The Stand in the public spaces of the gallery. Performed three times, the intervention was a re-contextualizing of the Contact Improvisation practice of The Stand, originally conceived by the founder of Contact Improvisation, Steve Paxton, which is a meditation on the movements that keep us upright.
“Taking a stand” can also be a political act.
“Taking a stand” can also be a political act.
All Bodies Movement Program, 2025
Panopticon at the Remai Modern, 2018