RCA In the Community Ocean’s Roaring Dance Presentation engaged the community on the shores of Lake Okanagan

Last week RCA in the Community presented Ocean’s Roaring, a unique outdoor dance presentation at Tugboat Bay Beach in downtown Kelowna, with thanks to Made in BC Dance on Tour.

RCA’s Programming Coordinator, Karma Lacoff commented, “It was a beautiful and moving performance set against a backdrop of the lake and mountains for the nearly 200 spectators that enjoyed the performance”.

Ocean Roaring is a site-specific dance and violin project that follows the stories of six women on the shore at dusk. The piece focused on tireless and urgent movement as a means to describe distance and longing between people and the land and directs attention to the water as a scarce and vital resource.

The time at Tugboat Bay Beach informed the work and fostered community engagement and conversation. In this residency, rehearsals were open for all to see, and in doing so observers could learn from and engage with Kelowna’s community.

The one evening and one afternoon free public presentations were choreographed by Kelowna’s Anya Saugstad. This project included RCA’s community dance residency participants. The dancers and performers that took part in this showcase of movement and music included Eowynn Enquist, Sabine Raskin, Daria Mikhaylyuk, Shion Skye Carter, Samantha Priya Wright, and Cindy Ka.