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All smiles at the Centre tonight for SEASONS' official theatre walk-through @ The Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts

The cast of SEASONS is hard at work on this rainy Sunday! The show opens this week so get your tickets NOW on ticketmaster: Ticketmaster.ca > SEASONS: A Magical Musical

All smiles at the Centre tonight for SEASONS' official theatre walk-through @ The Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts

Our final cast member is Makenna Scout Davies, playing the role of Faith's daughter. Makenna is a super energetic, strong and confident 10 year old girl. She doesn't just walk places she is always dancing and creating as she goes along ...... She plays the piano and is a passionate dancer with a Ballet, Acro and Lyrical background. Since the age of five, she has been involved in numerous stage performances with Fabulous Feet and Show Stoppers. She has sung in the school choir and has taken part in the Vancouver Opera house workshops for kids. She does modelling and is now embracing the film industry with her acting skills doing commercials, television and movies. Currently in grade five French Immersion, she enjoys competing in 5 km Marathon races. Her annual "Run for Water" raising money to build water wells in Africa, is the most meaningful and she looks forward to doing it each year. She has been in Okinawan Traditional Martial Arts for over five years, where she has obtained her green belt. Achieving great discipline and patience, she is often being asked to teach the Little Dragons class. She is young but full of ambition and intensity that we know nothing will stop her from shining. Photography by @whatiseephoto

Our final cast member is Makenna Scout Davies, playing the role of Faith's daughter. Makenna is a super energetic, strong and confident 10 year old girl. She doesn't just walk places she is always dancing and creating as she goes along ...... She plays the piano and is a passionate dancer with a Ballet, Acro and Lyrical background. Since the age of five, she has been involved in numerous stage performances with Fabulous Feet and Show Stoppers. She has sung in the school choir and has taken part in the Vancouver Opera house workshops for kids. She does modelling and is now embracing the film industry with her acting skills doing commercials, television and movies. Currently in grade five French Immersion, she enjoys competing in 5 km Marathon races. Her annual "Run for Water" raising money to build water wells in Africa, is the most meaningful and she looks forward to doing it each year. She has been in Okinawan Traditional Martial Arts for over five years, where she has obtained her green belt. Achieving great discipline and patience, she is often being asked to teach the Little Dragons class. She is young but full of ambition and intensity that we know nothing will stop her from shining. Photography by @whatiseephoto

Announcing our 6th principle dancer, Sam Presley! Samantha is a dance artist who for the past 5 years has been devoted to training, creating, teaching, and performing in Vancouver, BC. At 23 years old she has had the opportunity to work with choreographers such as Peter Bingham, Judith Garay, Rob Kitsos, Sarah Chase, Vanessa Goodman, Wen Wei Wang and Yossi Berg & Oded Graf Dance Theatre through the student repertory course at Simon Fraser University where she earned her BF...A in Contemporary Dance. She is fortunate to be the recipient of scholarships that have allowed her to participate in intensives lead by Helen Walkley, Modus Operandi, and The Dance Initiative. She is currently furthering her practice in contact improvisation through a scholarship at Edam Dance under the direction of Peter Bingham. Samantha has also performed work professionally by for companies and independent artists including: The Body Orchestra collective, Megan Friessen, Heather Laura Gray, The Lovers Cabaret, Wolf Pack Productions and CollabArt Creations. Samantha’s first full-length choreographic work entitled Playful Parameters premiered in December 2016 at Goldcorp Centre for the Arts and has been remounted since. The work organizes the behaviors, choices and movement patterns of local children under the age of 6, into charismatic contemporary dance and multimedia. photography by @whatiseephoto See more

Announcing our 6th principle dancer, Sam Presley! Samantha is a dance artist who for the past 5 years has been devoted to training, creating, teaching, and performing in Vancouver, BC. At 23 years old she has had the opportunity to work with choreographers such as Peter Bingham, Judith Garay, Rob Kitsos, Sarah Chase, Vanessa Goodman, Wen Wei Wang and Yossi Berg & Oded Graf Dance Theatre through the student repertory course at Simon Fraser University where she earned her BF...A in Contemporary Dance. She is fortunate to be the recipient of scholarships that have allowed her to participate in intensives lead by Helen Walkley, Modus Operandi, and The Dance Initiative. She is currently furthering her practice in contact improvisation through a scholarship at Edam Dance under the direction of Peter Bingham. Samantha has also performed work professionally by for companies and independent artists including: The Body Orchestra collective, Megan Friessen, Heather Laura Gray, The Lovers Cabaret, Wolf Pack Productions and CollabArt Creations. Samantha’s first full-length choreographic work entitled Playful Parameters premiered in December 2016 at Goldcorp Centre for the Arts and has been remounted since. The work organizes the behaviors, choices and movement patterns of local children under the age of 6, into charismatic contemporary dance and multimedia. photography by @whatiseephoto See more

Meet Rachel! She is also one of the fabulous principle dancers in SEASONS: A Magical Musical Rachel Helten is a Vancouver based dance artist, choreographer, and teacher. In 2016, she completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance at Simon Fraser University. Since then she has traveled to Ecuador where she taught dance at an art therapy centre as well as trained in Florence, Italy in a process facilitated by eminent dance creatives from around the globe. In the OpenFLR dance ...intensive Rachel was gifted the opportunity to work intimately with Dorotea Saykaly and engage in workshops lead by artists such as Christopher Evans, Jenia Kasatkina, Shumpei Nemoto and Alessandro Marzotto. Following her travels, she has been teaching, working as an independent artist in various avenues as a performer and choreographer. In recent past, Rachel worked as a performer for The Lovers Cabaret, The East Vancouver Opera and most recently with Dezza Dance. She has been blessed to be a part of processes under the leadership of a vast array of artists such as Crystal Pite, The Plastic Orchid Factory, Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg, Vanessa Goodman, Judith Garay, Rob Kitsos, Desirée Dunbar, Emmalena Fredriksson, Gioconda Barbuto, Wen Wei Wang, Sarah Chase and Heather Myers. Moreover, she has an affinity for collaborative and interdisciplinary methods and has had the pleasure of producing her own work. She is grateful to be a part of the Seasons process with such brilliant performers and creative artists. Rachel would like to thank her family and friends for their love and support and for all those who have helped shape who she is today. Photography by @whatiseephoto See more

Welcoming dancer, Silene Razo. SEASONS will be her first dance performance in Vancouver! Originally from Mexico, Silene Razo is a versatile dancer, actress and spanish voice actor.... Before falling in love with dance, she was a radio and television presenter. She also obtained a Bachelor Degree in Communication and graduated from Contempodanza School (contemporary dance program) México City. Silene has had the opportunity to dance on international stages. Highlights include first place in the competition of the New Prague Dance Festival 2014 as a part of a team with a contemporary dance choreography in Prague, Czech Republic as well as an invitation to perform in San Francisco, CA at Mobu Dance Festival in 2015 by Takami Caddrock. In 2015 and 2016, Razo completed two concert tours throughout Japan as a latin dancer with a mambo orchestra. Photography by Michelle Moore

Meet Anna Dueck! Anna is one of six fantastic principle dancers you will catch on stage in a few short weeks! Born in Calgary, Alberta Anna graduated from the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University with a BFA in Dance. Growing up, she trained in multiple styles at an extensive arts program in her high school and for 10 years as a competitive dancer in jazz, ballet, tap, lyrical, pointe and hip hop. She is the Development and Membership Assistant at The... Dance Centre and assistant to Ralph Escamillan, a Vancouver contemporary and vogueing artist. She is a dance teacher at iDance Studios, Roundhouse Community Centre, Jewish Community Centre, UBC Dance Horizons, Baza Dance Studios and Wesbrook Community Centre. Her performance repertoire includes working with Crystal Pite, Gioconda Barbuto, Rob Kitsos, Gail Lotenberg, Amber Funk Barton, and most recently as Baroque dancer with Catherine Lee of the Historical Performance Ensemble. Anna has a passion for dance because of the mental and physical benefits it provides for everyone. Using athleticism and artistry, the two combine to create moments expressing emotion, creativity and passion. Photography by Michelle Moore

Here is the lovely Jennifer Aoki playing one of Faith's friends and rehearsing as Faith's understudy Jennifer Aoki is a choreographer, dancer, and educator who was born and raised in North Vancouver, Canada. She received her dance training at Simon Fraser University, Edam Dance (recipient of Contact Improvisation Scholarship in 2011), as well as abroad in Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, and Austria. Jennifer's work has been presented both in Canada and Europe. Highlights... include Viewer Discretion, a dark, politically charged ensemble piece at the 2017 Calgary Fringe Festival, and The Conspiracy of Endings, a deeply personal solo at the 2013 Nah Dran in Berlin. In 2010, Aoki co-founded Triadic Dance Works, with whom she presented the full-length work Ceremonial Sketches (2012), curated the mixed program Dime A Dozen (2013), and performed in various venues in the Lower Mainland and Seattle. Jennifer's interest in collaboration has led her to work with composer/musicians Elliot Vaughan, Jakob Liljenwall, and Zane Barratt, as well as lighting designer Jonathan Kim. Jennifer has had the privilege of interpreting works by choreographers Jacinte Armstrong, Barbara Lindenberg, Patricia Allison, Meredith Kalaman, Carolyn Schmidt, Jamee Valin, Anna Kraulis, Natalie Gan, Kat Single-Dain, Jenn Edwards and Body Narratives Collective. She is thrilled to be part of the cast of Seasons: A Magical Musical. Photography by Michelle Moore

Up next is Kyle McCloy playing our Love Interest: Sean Kyle has been dancing for 18 years, training in a variety of styles including tap, jazz, contemporary, hip hop, ballet and commercial/street jazz. His early dance training came from Dance in Motion in Abbotsford, Langley Fine Arts School, and Harbour Dance Centre. Now, Kyle is a dancer, choreographer, and musical theater actor residing in Vancouver, having performed roles such as Neleus in Mary Poppins (Theater Und...er the Stars) and Sonny in Grease (Karen Flamenco/Troy McLaughlin’s Dance Works). Further, Kyle has choreographed group and soloist numbers for a variety of dance settings, and was the head choreographer for the Simon Fraser University dance team, setting their performance for the Grey Cup Kick-Off Event in Vancouver, B.C. His upcoming shows include Goh Ballet’s Nutcracker and Royal City Musical Theatre’s production of Cabaret. Enjoy the magic of Seasons! Photography by Michelle Moore

This talented little girl is playing the role of young "Faith" in SEASONS: A Magical Musical Addison is delighted to be portraying Young Faith in Seasons, her first stage production. The opportunity to dance, sing and act in a single performance has been thrilling. In addition to dancing at Kids in Motion, Addison enjoys reading, painting and cuddling her guinea pigs, Haysle and Moo Moo. Thank you to everyone connected to Seasons for your belief in me, Ms. Sarina and Ms. Jess...ica for your guidance and encouragement, my Motion Dance Co. friends for the fun and laughter, and my family for your love and support. Photography by Michelle Moore

SEASONS is pleased to announce lead dancer Amanda Helen Collinge, who will be playing the role of "Faith" Amanda is a professional dancer and actress whose passion is dance. Classically trained in ballet and modern dance, Amanda is known for her precise technique, commanding stage presence, and fluidity of movement. She has trained with Karen Kain, Veronica Tennant and Margie Gillis, and has won several awards and scholarships nationally. Her repertoire has expanded to includ...e contemporary, Argentine tango, commercial styles, jazz, hip hop, ballroom, Latin and salsa dance. Amanda has worked in music videos, television commercials, Bollywood movies, online ad campaigns, corporate events and dance on film projects. She was principal dancer, choreographer and company member forThe Lovers Cabaret and Corazon Dancers. Amanda volunteered as a principal dancer and choreographer forBrilliant!, Shine! and Red galas benefiting mental health and HIV research. When not performing, Amanda is a designated accountant and strategic operations manager at a financial brokerage. She has been a guest speaker at the Vancouver Board of Trade and two Young Women in Business conferences as a key note speaker and panelist. She mentors high potential young females and enjoys giving back to the community around her. Amanda is honored and thrilled to be a part of Seasons and is excited to share her passion with diverse audiences. Photography by Michelle Moore