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Vancouver-based dance artist, writer and curator

Rachel Silver Maddock is a performer, writer and curator living and working on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations, Vancouver and Burnaby, BC.

Biography
 

Spring, 2025

Graduate Practicum

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Curatorial Assistant, SFU Galleries

Researching and writing extended didactics for the First People’s Gathering House (FPGH) Art plan

2023 - 2025

M.A. Contemporary Arts

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SFU School for Contemporary Arts

I am grateful to be taking some time to enrich my writing practise through graduate studies. My research investigates embodied memory, the performance sensorium and haptic space.

April - June, 2023

Contact Mentorship

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Contact Improv Project

A mentorship with Olivia Shaffer and EDAM funded by the BCAC and CCA

May 28, 2023

Clear in the River

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Clear in the River

A dance-music-poetry meditation/celebration of the senses in nature, based on site specific research in Lynn Valley Headwaters.

 
 
Writing
White Space, Loneliness, and Moving with the Stars

Comparative Media Arts Journal, Issue Fourteen: Toward a Free Poetics

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Response: Shion Skye Carter + Miya Turnbull's Omote (面)

VIDF Living Room

A response to Shion Skye Carter + Miya Turnbull's Omote (面)

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Preview: Matriarch’s Uprising festival spreads its wings

The Georgia Straight

Preview. The seventh Matriarch’s Uprising Festival 2025 is, by design, the biggest yet.

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Preview: “faith hole” is a love letter to anyone who’s ever felt like they need to hold themselves back

The Georgia Straight

Preview. Nate Yaffe’s solo faith hole (coming to Left of Main on October 25 and 26, presented by Plastic Orchid Factory) unwinds a tightly-wound spool of conservatory dance training, neurodivergent pathways, vulnerability, darkness, and joy to tumble into trust with its viewers.

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Review: DARKMATTER makes the “(afro)futuristic and enigmatic body” a galaxy of meaning

The Dance Current

Review of DARKMATTER by Cherish Menzo: The edgy, multi-faceted work by Amsterdam/Brussels-based dancer-choreographer explores tempo remixing, rap anthems and Black identity.

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Review: Dog Rising by Montréal-based Clara Furey

The Georgia Straight

Review of Dog Rising by Clara Furey

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