Name: Dance Allsorts: Immigrant Lessons
Start: 2018-10-21T14:00:00-07:00
End: 2018-10-21T15:15:00-07:00
Location: Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre

Dance Allsorts: Immigrant Lessons

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Immigrant Lessons is a dance and art collective created to promote cultural pluralism through dance, music, fashion, and visual design. Their latest work, 101, uses these elements to tell personal stories of first and second generation immigrants from different backgrounds navigating Canadian culture.
101 exposes the pressure to assimilate, while not sacrificing one’s own culture and background, and at the same time facing complex questions: what does it mean to be an immigrant on unceded Indigenous lands? How does one navigate the painful reality that the land that has given refuge to many is the same land that was stolen from peoples of many different First Nations, holders of rich cultures and traditions of their own?
Audiences can expect a colourful and emotional journey of the curiosity, love, and at times animosity of being exposed to each other’s different cultures and how they as individuals, and as a group fit into what is usually referred to as Western society. ABOUT THE ARTISTS Immigrant Lessons is the soul child of the collaborative efforts of Kevin Fraser and Alyssa Amarshi, two professionals dance artists that have decided to merge their 13 years of combined experience to tackle issues that have been prominent both in their professional and personal lives. Individually, their work has explored issues of sexual orientation and gender identity, feminism, racial discrimination, cultural erasure, intersectionality, as well as mental illness. Immigrant Lessons is a combined front to aid in the creation of more opportunities in dance, stage performance, film, urban performance, concert dance, as well as community development for POC and other marginalized communities. 
EVENT DETAILS 
Dance Allsorts: Immigrant Lessons Sunday, October 21, 2018 Performance: 2:00 p.m. followed by a forum conversation with the Artists.  Roundhouse Performance Centre, 181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver.
Advanced tickets for guaranteed seating: $15 Adults, $5 Children 12 & under Pay-what-you-can at the door: First-come-first-seated.
New Works gratefully and respectfully acknowledges that this event takes place on the ancestral, and unceded Indigenous territories of the ʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations.
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