re:Naissance proudly presents IndieFest

re:Naissance proudly presents IndieFest from Nov. 15–23, 2024.
Now in its fifth year, IndieFest has celebrated local creatives, amplified the voices of IBPOC
and LGBTQ2S+ artists, and pushed for innovation in live performance with genre-defying projects.

This year’s theme, “Transformation and Transcendence,” invites audiences to engage with the world in new ways and encourages authentic personal growth.
“The festival has grown significantly over the past five years, but it remains focused on showcasing Vancouver’s vibrant indie arts scene,” says Debi Wong, founding artistic director of re:Naissance.

The festival opens with the world premiere of Eurydice Fragments by Luke Hathaway and Teiya Kasahara, which has been seven years in the making. The groundbreaking production is a reimagining of the Greek Orphean myth, blending powerful vocal performances, dance, XR, and motion capture technology to explore identity beyond binaries. It follows O, a trans individual navigating self-expression through virtual avatars in a quest for wholeness. This immersive performance challenges audiences to consider the complexity of identity and self-expression in a modern world. The project has been
presented in short-form iterations over the past several years, such as Live from the Underworld, which earned international acclaim.

Eurydice Fragments will open at Signals Studio at the Centre for Digital Media, a brand new cultural hub located in False Creek Flats opened in partnership with DigiBC. The 8,000-square-foot converted warehouse was designed to break the mold of traditional performance venues.

The festival will also present Ultra Violets by Alexandra Caprara at Signals Studio. The full-length dance-theatre work is a physical exploration of the ways queer club culture, plant growth cycles, and sapphic intimacy intersect. Ultra Violets subverts our expectations of what queer becoming looks like, and depicts this process as a cause for celebration using integrated design, dirt, and plenty of disco balls. Set within a world that is part greenhouse, part underground dance club, the work draws on the history of disco and plant life to introduce a fresh perspective on what it means to grow into oneself.

This year’s Future Mythologies — a showcase of excerpts of new works in development that aspire to
redefine the future of storytelling — will feature three boundary-breaking works:
● Soft Tongues by Jami Reimer (Nov. 22): an immersive sound composition that weaves
recordings of local frogs and their relationship to their environments as the audience follows a frog throughout its life cycle.
● Polyphonic Garden by Ruby Singh (Nov. 23): an innovative blend of biophony (the collective sounds of animals in an environment), geophony (the naturally occurring, non-biological sounds in an environment), and biosonification (the translation of biological activity from Indigenous plants into musical sounds).
● Future Renaissance by Alina Sotskova (Nov. 23): a fusion of contemporary dance, sci-fi, and Renaissance art that synthesize in a cyberpunk setting 500 years into the future.

See the full festival line-up at indiefest.ca.
Get your tickets here.
Eurydice Fragments $25–45
Ultra Violets $19.99
Future Mythologies: Soft Tongues $19.99
Future Mythologies: Polyphonic Garden and Future Renaissance $19.99

Free admission is available to Indigenous, Inuit, and Métis peoples.
IndieFest program: Nov. 15–23, 2024

Eurydice Fragments at Signals Studio at the Centre for Digital Media (577 Great Northern Way)
Friday, Nov. 15 at 7:30pm
Saturday, Nov. 16 at 2pm
Saturday, Nov. 16 at 7:30pm
Sunday, Nov. 17 at 2pm

Ultra Violets at Signals Studio at the Centre for Digital Media (577 Great Northern Way)
Thursday, Nov. 21 at 7:30pm
Friday, Nov. 22 at 7:30pm

Future Mythologies: Soft Tongues at Lobe Studio (713 E Hastings Street)
Friday, Nov. 22 at 7:30pm

Future Mythologies: Polyphonic Garden and Future Renaissance at The Annex (823 Seymour Street)
Saturday, Nov. 23 at 7:30pm

About re:Naissance
re:Naissance is a boundary-defying collective of creators who craft immersive worlds through boundless
storytelling, engaging audiences in transformative experiences that challenge and expand the possibilities of live performance. Located on the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Sə lílwətaʔ, and xwməθkwəy̓ əm nations, our mission is to inspire awe while uplifting equity-deserving artists.