Ivanochko in company is a project-to-project based company built upon feminist values of gender equality and sexual difference. Our body-driven, interdisciplinary practice questions disciplinary conventions and cultural norms, and creates space for alternative possibilities and narratives of the body and identity to emerge.
As a way to promote diversity of expression and to boost the critical dialogue associated with dance research and creation, we mentor emerging performance artists in building creative methodologies. We achieve artistic excellence by prioritizing deep, creative relationships, experimentation and pursuing rigorous lines of questioning towards a significant production approximately once every 2-4 years. In the in-between, Sasha keeps very active with commissions, teaching, acting as outside eye for other artists, and programming and directing Dancers’ Studio West.
The ideas for all our projects are inspired and informed by Sasha’s lived experiences and interactions with others. Thus, Ivanochko in company refers to the friends, artists, audience, scholars, students, administrators, presenters and public we collaborate and engage with.
Major Works
Modern Woman in Search of Soul
Mirror Staging the Seeing Place
The future memory heartbreak junction, diptych
Past presentations include:
La Petite scène, Québec City
The International Theatre Festival of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Dance Meeting, Nagoya, Japan
2007 IETM, Montréal
Canada Dance Festival, Ottawa
Fluid Festival, Calgary
Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival, Guelph
Dancing on the Edge Vancouve
New Dance Horizons, Regina
Dancers’ Studio West, Calgary
DanceWorks, Toronto
Festival of New Dance, St. John’s
Tangente, Montréal
Studio 303, Montréal
Mile Zero Dance, Edmonton
Festival Quatiers Danses, Montréal
Public Energy, Peterborough
The School for the Contemporary Arts at SFU, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Vancouver
Downtown Dance and Movement, Los Angeles, USA
For the Company
administrative assistant Ileanna Cheladyn
The core values underpinning all of our activities:
- Artistic curiosity and the sharing of knowledge and questions. To promote artistic literacy through our interactions with stakeholders, audience and community.
- That both art practice and presentation are vital tools of empowerment for the individual and community. To make art education accessible.
- We believe in equality for all peoples. Equality is practiced. That we use our skills and resources to provoke deep conversations about the mechanisms through which equality is fostered.
- To operate with dignity, integrity, patience and accountability for our actions
- To actively question normative systems and structures through our research and creation.
Photo Credits on this page
Brendan Wyatt, Sasha Ivanochko
photo Lief Norman
Kristy Kennedy
photo Tyler Pengelly
Sasha Ivanochko, Brendan Wyatt
photo Joseph Michael Photography
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