CONNECTION DANCE WORKS

✨Our call for submissions is still live! ✨The Saint John Contemporary Dance Festival is accepting applications from professional dance artists for its 16th edition, taking place July 18-23, 2026, in Saint John, New Brunswick. We are accepting applications for Site-specific performances (15 minutes in length) and the Happy Hour Cabaret (5 minutes in length). Artists can apply as soloists or in groups, with opportunities for both indoor and outdoor performances. While we prioritize submissions from artists in the Atlantic provinces, we welcome applications from across all Canadian provinces. Artists will be paid a performance fee. Travel and accommodation are the artist’s responsibility, but a letter of invitation will be provided, and we’re happy to assist with finding local billets. Submissions due: May 28, 2026 Submission form link in bio, and at /saint-john-contemporary-dance-festival-call Dancer: @baudouinchantal Photo: @naomi._.studio

The Saint John Contemporary Dance Festival is accepting applications from professional dance artists for its 16th edition, taking place July 18-23, 2026, in Saint John, New Brunswick. We are accepting applications for Site-specific performances (15 minutes in length), Main Stage Performance (20 minutes in length) and the Happy Hour Cabaret (5 minutes in length). Artists can apply as soloists or in groups, with opportunities for both indoor and outdoor performances. While we prioritize submissions from artists in the Atlantic provinces, we welcome applications from across all Canadian provinces. Artists will be paid a performance fee. Travel and accommodation are the artist’s responsibility, but a letter of invitation will be provided, and we’re happy to assist with finding local billets. Submissions due: May 28, 2026 Submission form link in bio, and at /saint-john-contemporary-dance-festival-call Dancer: @baudouinchantal Photo: @naomi._.studio

PERSPECTIVE Photos @naomi._.studio Kelli Wray Sam Penner Sarah Power Arwen Holder Jacinte Armstrong Meredith Kalaman

✨PERSPECTIVE: An Evening of Dance and Discussion is TONIGHT!!✨ Don’t forget to get your ticket at the link in our bio! 🗓️Friday, October 24th, 2025 ⌚7:30 PM 🎭BMO Studio Theatre 🎟️$20 / $25 • SHOWPASS.COM/PERSPECTIVE 💃@c_sampenner_run 📷Kevin MacCormack

✨PERSPECTIVE: An Evening of Dance and Discussion is TOMORROW!!✨ Don’t forget to get your ticket at the link in our bio! 🗓️Friday, October 24th, 2025 ⌚7:30 PM 🎭BMO Studio Theatre 🎟️$20 / $25 • SHOWPASS.COM/PERSPECTIVE 💃@c_sampenner_run 📷Kevin MacCormack

✨Don’t forget to grab your tickets for PERSPECTIVE: An Evening of Dance and Discussion!✨ 🗓️Friday, October 24th, 2025 ⌚7:30 PM 🎭BMO Studio Theatre 🎟️$20 / $25 • SHOWPASS.COM/PERSPECTIVE 💃@arwenholder 📷@naomi._.studio #perspective2025 #connectiondanceworks #saintjohndance #dance #atlanticdance #performance

✨Meet the artists of PERSPECTIVE 2025 ✨ Jacinte Armstrong (@jacinte_a ) is an Acadian artist based in K’jipuktuk/Halifax, Canada. Her work explores embodied practice through performance, choreography, collaboration, and curation, communicating the experience of the body in relation to objects, materials, technologies, and people. Jacinte is Artistic Director and co-founder of SiNS (Sometimes in Nova Scotia) dance, co-Artistic Director at suddenlyLISTEN, and collaborates often with Mocean Dance. From 2014-18 she was Artistic Director of Kinetic Studio, presenting an annual season of contemporary dance workshops and performances in Nova Scotia. In 2020 she received her MFA in Performance from NSCAD University and is a Certified Laban Movement Analyst. 🗓️Friday, October 24th, 2025 ⌚7:30 PM 🎭BMO Studio Theatre 🎟️$20 / $25 • SHOWPASS.COM/PERSPECTIVE #perspective2025 #connectiondanceworks #saintjohndance #dance #atlanticdance #performance

✨Meet the artists of PERSPECTIVE 2025 ✨ Sam Penner (@c_sampenner_run ) is an independent contemporary dance artist of mixed settler heritage, living and working in Kjipuktuk/Halifax. She performed extensively in her home province of Manitoba before relocating to the East Coast in 2021. Across her career she has worked with Mocean Dance, Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers, Gearshifting Performance Works and Rooted Dance Projects, working with choreographers including Peggy Baker, Susanne Chui, Alexandra Elliott, Jolene Bailie, and Kathleen Doherty. Penner’s choreographic practice explores both stage and screen. Recent creative highilihgts include premiering her short dance film Cumulus (2023), and remounting her work Nothing Doing (2019) for Coastal Currents 2025. 🗓️Friday, October 24th, 2025 ⌚7:30 PM 🎭BMO Studio Theatre 🎟️$20 / $25 • SHOWPASS.COM/PERSPECTIVE #perspective2025 #connectiondanceworks #saintjohndance #dance #atlanticdance #performance

✨Meet the artists of PERSPECTIVE 2025 ✨ Meredith Kalaman (@merekaldance ) is a two time Chrystal Dance Prize recipient, dancer, choreographer and teacher. She has choreographed pieces about; giraffes, girl guiding, exploring constellations, superheroes, skeletons, past entertainers and female identity. Meredith trained with Ballet BC in Vancouver before embarking on her independent career dancing and performing in Canada, Europe and Australia. Past presentation highlights include Saint John Contemporary Dance Festival 2025, Coastal Currents and Island Fringe performing in Jessica Lowe's work, Enchantress and working with theatre dramaturg Raina von Waldenburg. Her full length work Femme Fatales toured to Victoria, Edmonton and was presented at Uferstudios in Berlin in 2017. Meredith also produces an immersive speakeasy event called The Underground in Halifax. 🗓️Friday, October 24th, 2025 ⌚7:30 PM 🎭BMO Studio Theatre 🎟️$20 / $25 • SHOWPASS.COM/PERSPECTIVE #perspective2025 #connectiondanceworks #saintjohndance #dance #atlanticdance #performance

✨Meet the artists of PERSPECTIVE 2025 ✨ Holly Timpener (they/them) (@hollytimpener ) is a queer, non-binary performance artist working with themes of resistance and transformation. Timpener’s works investigate issues related to gender, intimacy, trauma, and the body, while “The Personal Is Political” is embodied in a modern sociopolitical context. They have presented work for Month of Performance Art Berlin, The Art Gallery of Ontario, SummerWorks, The Bronx Museum, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, La Centrale, Venice International Performance Art Week, among others. Timpener is honoured to have worked several times with La Pocha Nosta at Montreal Arts Interculturels, the Taos Paseo Festival, and Encuentro in Mexico City. Most recently, they performed for the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and have been the recipient of two Canadian Council Grants. Holly will act as guest facilitator for the artist sessions for PERSPECTIVE 2025. 🗓️Friday, October 24th, 2025 ⌚7:30 PM 🎭BMO Studio Theatre 🎟️$20 / $25 • SHOWPASS.COM/PERSPECTIVE #perspective2025 #connectiondanceworks #saintjohndance #dance #atlanticdance #performance

✨Meet the artists of PERSPECTIVE 2025 ✨ Finding sanctuary in movement, Arwen Holder (@arweneholder ), dances to communicate without the use of verbal cues. Holding reverence for improvisational practices, Arwen embraces the fluid nature of instinctual movement. 🗓️Friday, October 24th, 2025 ⌚7:30 PM 🎭BMO Studio Theatre 🎟️$20 / $25 • SHOWPASS.COM/PERSPECTIVE #perspective2025 #connectiondanceworks #saintjohndance #dance #atlanticdance #performance

✨Meet the artists of PERSPECTIVE 2025 ✨ Kelli Wray (@kelliwray ) is a New Brunswick artist and interpretive dancer utilizing dance, photography, vocal and written word to share stories that have impact on community. She facilitated Meditation in MOVEment for over 10yrs for women to enjoy the freedom of barefoot dancing. There is vulnerability in her body of work on stage and in street performances with improvisational movements that are honest and raw. Currently based in Saint John, the co-existence of industry and nature has been influential to Kelli’s most recent works exploring the depth of connection to each other and to environment touching on themes of strength, resilience, courage, hope and despair. 🗓️Friday, October 24th, 2025 ⌚7:30 PM 🎭BMO Studio Theatre 🎟️$20 / $25 • SHOWPASS.COM/PERSPECTIVE #perspective2025 #connectiondanceworks #saintjohndance #dance #atlanticdance #performance