Family Room Artist Highlights

Marissa Wong | Choreography & Set Design

MARISSA WONG is a Chinese-Canadian dance artist who has the privilege to create, play and share on the unceded territories of the Skwxwú7mesh, Səlílwətaɬ, and xwməθkwəyəm Nations, also named Vancouver, BC. She is the Artistic Director for The Falling Company and her engagement in the Vancouver dance community demonstrates her capability to educate, produce, perform, and host works. Marissa strives to change the systemic structure in dance through facilitating inclusive and sustainable arts spaces. She is invested in continuous learning and her work reflects her observations of the human experience.

**Justin Calvadores | Performer**

Justin Calvadores (they/them) is a second generation Filipinx-canadian, queer freelance contemporary dance artist based on the unceded stolen territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. They grew up on Treaty 1 territory and at the age of 16 were introduced to dance through a Filipino-led hip hop dance community. Since then Justin has fallen in love with the art form and enjoys continually learning about it. Justin is grateful for the privilege of being a working artist. Their perspective and artistry is proudly shaped by the complexities of their identity.

Photo by: Sheryl Struss

**Tamar Zehava Tabori |** **Performer**

Tamar Zehava Tabori (she/her) dances, creates videos, and contributes behind the scenes in the arts. With a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal, her artistic career has taken her across various stages and screens, both nationally and internationally. Tamar is grateful to have been deeply influenced by divergent perspectives on dance and movement, having worked with and for artists and companies such as Petrikor Danse, Kivanç Tatar, Amber Downie-Back, Sophia Mai Wolfe, Scout Heckel, Bradley Eng, Jeanette Kotowich, Company 605, and The Falling Company.

Tamar's career is marked by commissions for performance, production and curation roles, aligning with her desire to share and grow within different creative capacities. Her experimental short films have screened at over 15 festivals worldwide, even finding unconventional temporary homes like building facades and public transit screens. With a personal value of defying norms and embracing movement as a constant theme, she's proud to be a part of F-O-R-M (Festival of Recorded Movement) as its Artistic Director.

Photo by: Sophia Mai Wolfe

**Shana Wolfe | Performer**

Shana 愛 Wolfe is currently based in so-called Vancouver, working as a freelance artist with local dance companies such as OURO Collective, The Falling Company and Company 605 and with artists such as Cindy Mochizuki, Justin Calvadores, Lisa Mariko Gelley and Anya Saugstad. Through these artists she has been able to perform at Dancing on the Edge, Dance Deck, Guelph Dance Festival, Hold On Let Go, Left of Push, the Edam Performance Series, BC Movement Arts Society and with the Edmonton Opera.

**Jamie Bradbury | Sound Composer**

Jamie Bradbury is a multidisciplinary artist from Toronto, Canada who now lives and works between St. John's and Burgeo, Newfoundland. He has a bachelor's degree in Painting from OCAD University (2006) and a master's degree from Central Saint Martins in London, UK (2010). Bradbury's works have been exhibited throughout North America and Europe, including at the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art in Wales and the Overture Center for the Arts in Wisconsin. He has received a Canadian Council of the Arts award for Movement and Sound creation. Bradbury's practice encompasses visual arts, music, and independent research-creation

**Meagan Woods | Costume design**

Meagan Woods is an interdisciplinary artist who works in dance, theatre, and costume design. She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studies from Simon Fraser University and a BFA in Dance from Rutgers University, where she earned the Margery Turner Award for choreography. Meagan is a collaborator for the research project *Moving Matter*, which explores the agency of non-human material in the design process and was recently featured in the Dance on Camera Festival at Lincoln Center and published in the Theatre, Dance and Performance Training Journal. More at meaganwoods.com and @meaganawoods.

Jono Kim | Lighting Design

Jonathan, better known as Jono, is a Korean-Canadian lighting designer who currently lives and works on the unceded, stolen and ancestral lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh territories (Vancouver, BC). He is a graduate of Simon Fraser University's Theatre Production and Design program. Recent credits: Empire of the Son (Pacific Theatre); Peace Country (rice & beans theatre); How Black Mothers Say I Love You (the frank theatre company); Zahak, The Serpent King (The Biting School); Into the Woods (Studio 58); CHILD-ish (Pacific Theatre); Jade Circle (rice & beans theatre); Red Velvet (Arts Club Theatre Company); Parifam (vAct & Medusa Theatre).