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Vancouver-based dance artist and writer

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

Biography
 

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.

March, 2023

Solastalgia

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Solastalgia

Interdisciplinary dance-theatre work exploring the physical and emotional impacts of climate change, premiered at 12MM in 2023.

 
 
Writing
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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Preview: Assembly Hall: Crystal Pite’s newest dance-theatre collaboration

Dance International

Feature/Preview of Assembly Hall by Crystal Pite

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Feature: Power in an Age of Healing: The Queen of Carthage in Vancouver

Dance International

Feature/Preview of The Queen of Carthage (co-produced by Early Music Vancouver and re:Naissance Opera).

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Feature: Save the Last Dance For Me: The polka chinata returns, the same but different

Dance International

Feature/Preview of Save the Last Dance for Me by Alessandro Sciarroni, a contemporary work that revives the Italian folk dance the polka chinata, presented at Vancouver’s VIDF Festival 2023.

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