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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.

 

Summer 2025

Gibson Inaugural Exhibition

Curatorial Assistant, Gibson Art Museum

Joined the curatorial team for the new Gibson Art Museum inaugural exhibition on Burnaby Mountain, featuring Canadian artists.

2023 - 2025

M.A. Contemporary Arts

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

Contact Improv Project

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

May 28, 2023

Clear in the River

Clear in the River

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