Experience a 20 minute excerpt of Travelling Bodies Collective's new work in development 'Raízes Telúrica', followed by a Q&A. One of the highlights of Dance Days is the opportunity to experience Rough Cuts (works-in-progress) by some of Victoria’s leading dance artists and choreographers. All performances are followed by informal Q&As where the artists answer your questions about the work that they’re creating. Rough Cuts performances are free and accessible to the public, with donations encouraged. Join us on Sunday, January 25, between 2-6pm to experience 20-minute excerpts by Dance Victoria Collective-in-Residence Travelling Bodies, and local Victoria dance companies Broken Rhythms Dance Company and Suddenly Dance Theatre. Each Rough Cut will be followed by a talkback with the artists. Pre-registration is required for each showing you would like to attend. Pick one, or attend all three! Space is limited. ________________________________ 2:00 pm - Sunday, January 25 | Excerpt of Raízes Telúrica by Travelling Bodies Collective Click here to pre-register for the 2:00 pm showing. Piece Description: Under the artistic direction of Vitor Freitas, Act II of Raízes Telúrica continues to unfold as a collective exploration of migration, grief, care, and resilience, opening space for multiple voices. Kennadie Friedlander’s Unreduced explores the four elements of nature as they shift between dancers, embodying their distinct qualities and revealing transformation through shared physical experience. Peter Starr’s Our Lament examines shared grief through ritual, repetition, and communal healing, while Vitor Freitas’s Cross Path reflects on human evolution and change, situating the individual body within intersecting destinies shaped by movement, displacement, and collective presence. Together, these works reveal how individual journeys are held, shaped, and strengthened by the collective body. “Lately, the studio has been a place of deep listening—listening to bodies, to shared weight, to grief, and to care. I am particularly excited to share this moment of Raízes Telúrica while the work remains in process, allowing vulnerability, collaboration, and emergence to be fully visible. This phase reflects my desire for healing and alignment, giving space for artistic intentions to continue unfolding with resilience and clarity.” — Vitor Freitas, Artistic Director & principal choreographer ________________________________ 3: 30 pm - Sunday, January 25 | Scenes of LUCKY MAYBE by Suddenly Dance Theatre Click here to pre-register for the 3:30 pm showing. Piece Description: Suddenly Dance Theatre’s LUCKY MAYBE is a serial of 20-minute dance films following Horangi (Tiger) on his transformational journey from the temple to the city. In this featured excerpt from the episode TIGER IN THE CITY, our hero (South Korea’s Hoyeon Kim) faces fatigue, temptation, and hunger until he receives kindness from a stranger (Lynda Raino). Created and directed by David Ferguson, and fuelled by an original soundtrack by Miles Lowry, LUCKY MAYBE was catalyzed in 2020 by Dance Victoria’s Chrystal Dance Prize— Projects award; and supported by The Canada Council, The BC Arts Council, CRD Arts Development, Arts Council Korea, Dab Dance Project (South Korea), and Seoul Dance Centre. LUCKY MAYBE was filmed in the City of Seoul, at Wawoojongsa Temple in Yongin, and on Jeju Island, South Korea. In Canada, the artists have filmed at various locations in the CRD. ________________________________ 5:00 pm - Sunday, January 25 | Excerpt of 1,000 Pieces of π by Broken Rhythms Dance Company Click here to pre-register for the 5:00 pm showing. Piece Description: Have you ever experienced math phobia and wanted to dance about it? Broken Rhythms Dance Company’s 1,000 Pieces of π explores the never-ending, never-repeating number sequence of the irrational number π (pi), most commonly written as 3.14. The entire performance is built from just ten dance movements, each assigned a numerical value. Using the infinite and non-repeating structure of π as its guiding constraint, the work investigates the mind–body connection, creating a full, rigorous, and deliberately “irrational” dance experience. This is a first-of-its-kind performance that translates mathematical abstraction into physical expression. “This work has given me a thousand gifts; each time I return to it, I discover something new it is trying to tell me.” — Dyana Sonik-Henderson, Artistic Director & choreographer ________________________________ Dance Victoria’s Artist Residency program is made possible with generous funding from the Victoria Foundation’s Community Grants program, with additional support from Dance Creation Sponsors Impossible Enterprises and Dance Praktika, and individual underwriters Helen McDonald and two anonymous donors. Dance Victoria’s Rough Cuts are free and open to the public. If you are moved by the opportunity and have the capacity, please consider making a charitable donation to support these offerings. Your gift ensures that we can continue to offer meaningful support to independent dance artists, including community workshops. Photo Credit: Travelling Bodies Collective by Julia Loglisci.