MEET APRIL’S RESIDENT ARTIST

We’re excited to feature an artist we hosted at Left of Main in the spring as part of a residency exchange program with Impulse Theatre/Peek Fest. 

Andrew Barrett (he/him), continued developing his work the soft spaces, a “multi-disciplinary dance-theatre project…based in his experience growing up on Salt Spring island. Andrew investigates where the geography that raised him and his Queerness intersect and thrive. Using movement, video, music, and text, the work grapples with the spaces between islands and bodies; Queerness and conformity; care and self-deception.”

Image courtesy of Andrew Barrett

Andrew Barrett is a queer multidisciplinary performing artist based on the traditional territories of the Lekwungen-Speaking Peoples/Victoria. He is a creator, choreographer, performer, director, educator, administrator, and founding Artistic Producer of Impulse Theatre. He has participated in Dance Victoria’s Lola Projects under the mentorship of Lee Su-Feh, and Bounce Performance Works’ Bounce in the Square under the mentorship of Jennifer Mascall. As a dance artist, he has worked with Brendan Fernandes’ collaboration with the AGGV’s Moving Change in 2018, Stand Up Dance’s dance like no one is watching in 2019, Atomic Vaudeville, and on numerous pieces by Constance Cooke and Kelly Hobson. His work with Impulse Theatre has been presented at the rEvolver Theatre Festival and BC Buds Festival in Vancouver, Videofag in Toronto, and in Victoria at the Belfry Theatre’s Spark Festival, and Intrepid Theatre’s Uno Fest, OUTStages and Victoria Fringe Festival.

We can’t wait to see this work when it’s fully realized.