Coming up with have a third Allison Lang's series: open two. A two performance evening at KW Studios! adv $10 dos $15 Pass for all four shows $20 This event is 19+ Doors at 7:00pm Show at 8pm Katy Perry in Space Elee Kraljii Gardiner and c.o.valenza Description of work: Katy Perry in Space is a dance piece exploring questions of our relationship to each other, the world, and the cosmos. We are fascinated by astrophysics principles, the vast and ever expanding spacetime of the universe, and black holes. Anything can become a black hole if it is compressed enough. Theoretically, even the earth could become a black hole if it were compressed to the size of a gumball. Nathan Coburn was born and raised in Vancouver, and received their education at the Arts Umbrella Dance program, under the direction of Artemis Gordon. An alumni of the Ballet BC Annex under the direction of Medhi Walerski, Nathan has had the privilege of working with phenomenal artists including Shay Kuebler, Cristina Bucci, Jera Wolfe, Crystal Pite, Doug Letheren, Alexis Fletcher, Sylvain Senez, Fernando Hernando Magadan, and Ethan Colangelo, among others. Nathan has performed as a freelancer throughout BC and recently toured to Toronto, performing in Project Inizi by Cristina Bucci at the dance: made in canada | fait au canada Festival. As an independent creator, Nathan created their first solo work STEVE with collaboration from Marisa Gold for Vines Art Festival in August 2025. Nathan is a co-founder of Paper Rabbits with Elle Derkitt and Sophia Makarenko. Paper Rabbits’ first production PROM NITE premiered at Kitsilano Neighbourhood house August 2024, and their site specific remount PROM NITE (epilogue) premiered at Belle Spirale’s Dance Deck 2025. Elle is From Regina, Saskatchewan, Elle began her early professional training at the Alberta Ballet School in Calgary, Alberta. In 2020, she continued her studies at Arts Umbrella in Vancouver under the direction of Artemis Gordon. Elle had the opportunity in her third year at Arts Umbrella to dance in Ballet BC’s Annex, under the direction of Medhi Walerski. Elle has been fortunate to work with incredible artists such as Yvan Dubreuil, Alexis Fletcher, Sylvain Senez, Racheal Prince, Brandon Lee Alley, Marissa Wong, Crystal Pite, Fernando Hernando Magadan, and Ethan Colangelo, among others. Based as a freelance dance artist in Vancouver, BC, Elle has been a part of Dance//Novella’s Emerging Artist Program and learned to dance tango for Phoenix Chamber Choir. She has danced for Opera Unbound in their original composition, Floating Island, which preceded her first solo work, A Day’s Work, in collaboration with Taryn Plater, Perri Lo, and Alyssa Samson. She is a Fall 2025 EDAM scholarship recipient, training in contact improvisation under Peter Bingham, Anne Cooper, and Olivia Schaffer. Elle is a co-founder of dance-theatre collective, Paper Rabbits, with Nathan Coburn and Sophia Makarenko. Paper Rabbits has produced its own work, PROM NITE, performed at Kitsilano Neighbourhood House and a site-specific rendition, PROM NITE (epilogue), at Belle Spirale’s Dance Deck 2025.