Interviews

A collection of seventeen transcribed oral history interviews conducted by Emma Metcalfe Hurst for Coming Out of Chaos: A Vancouver Dance Story between 2018-2020. Browse the interviews below by alphabetical and thematic order. Click on the name of the interviewee to read and download their full interview transcription!

Alphabetical Order ↓ Thematic Order ↓

Alphabetical Order:

Amber Funk Barton
Dance artist, choreographer, founder of the response., collaborator on Karen Jamieson’s Body to Body piece

Barbara Bourget
Dancer, choreographer, Artistic Director for Kokoro Dance, co-producer of the Vancouver International Dance Festival, founding member of EDAM, dancer in Coming Out of Chaos (1982) rehearsals 

Barbara Clausen
Founder of New Works Performance Society (1993), Executive Director of The Dance Centre (1987-1991), Managing Director of Terminal City Dance Research (1983-1985)

Darcy McMurray
Dance artist, Pilates instructor, collaborator on Karen Jamieson’s Body to Body piece

Jay Hirabayashi
Executive Director of Kokoro Dance and Vancouver International Dance Festival, founding member of EDAM

Jennifer Mascall
Founder of MascallDance, founding member of EDAM, dancer in Coming Out of Chaos (1982)

Josh Martin
Dance artist, co-founder of Company 605, collaborator on Karen Jamieson’s Body to Body piece

Kaija Pepper
Dance researcher and historian, author of The Man Next Door Dances: The Art of Peter Bingham (2007), co-editor of Renegade Bodies: Canadian Dance in the 1970s (2012), Editor of Dance International Magazine

Karen Jamieson
Artistic Director and Choreographer of Karen Jamieson Dance, choreographer and dancer in Coming Out of Chaos (1982), founding member of Terminal City Dance Research

Linda Rubin
Dancer, choreographer, educator, founding Director of Synergy Movement Workshops Inc.

Lola Ryan
Teacher, writer, performer, and dancer in Coming Out of Chaos (1982) 

Max Wyman
Dance historian, dance critic, and author of Dance Canada: An Illustrated History (1989)

Peter Bingham
Teacher, Artistic Director and founding member of EDAM, dancer in Coming Out of Chaos (1982)

Peter Dickinson
Performance Studies scholar, Professor at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts, author of My Vancouver Dance History: Story, Movement, Community (2020)

Savannah Walling Version 1 · Version 2
Theatre artist, writer, performer, Artistic Director of Vancouver Moving Theatre and the DTES Heart of the City Festival, dancer in Coming Out of Chaos (1982), founding member of Terminal City Dance Research 

Susan Berganzi
Costume Designer for Coming Out of Chaos (1982) and Karen Jamieson Dance 

Terry Hunter
Executive Director of Vancouver Moving Theatre, Artistic Producer of the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival, founding member of Terminal City Dance Research

 

Thematic Order:

Coming Out of Chaos Collaborators:

 

Barbara Bourget
Dancer, choreographer, Artistic Director for Kokoro Dance, co-producer of the Vancouver International Dance Festival, founding member of EDAM, dancer in Coming Out of Chaos (1982) rehearsals 

Jennifer Mascall
Founder of MascallDance, founding member of EDAM, dancer in Coming Out of Chaos (1982)

Karen Jamieson
Artistic Director and Choreographer of Karen Jamieson Dance, founding member of Terminal City Dance Research, choreographer and dancer in Coming Out of Chaos (1982)

Lola Ryan
Teacher, writer, performer, and dancer in Coming Out of Chaos (1982) 

Peter Bingham
Teacher, Artistic Director and founding member of EDAM, dancer in Coming Out of Chaos (1982)

Savannah Walling Part 1 · Part 2
Theatre artist, writer, performer, Artistic Director of Vancouver Moving Theatre and the DTES Heart of the City Festival, founding member of Terminal City Dance Research. dancer in Coming Out of Chaos (1982)  

Susan Berganzi
Costume Designer for Coming Out of Chaos (1982) and Karen Jamieson Dance 

 

Teachers & Contemporaries of
Coming Out of Chaos Collaborators:

Linda Rubin
Dancer, choreographer, educator, founding Director of Synergy Movement Workshops Inc.

Jay Hirabayashi
Executive Director of Kokoro Dance and Vancouver International Dance Festival, founding member of EDAM

Terry Hunter
Executive Director of Vancouver Moving Theatre, Artistic Producer of the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival, founding member of Terminal City Dance Research

Barbara Clausen
Founder of New Works Performance Society (1993), Executive Director of The Dance Centre (1987-1991), Managing Director of Terminal City Dance Research (1983-1985)

 

Terminal City Dance Research
& The Dance Centre: 

Terry Hunter
Executive Director of Vancouver Moving Theatre, Artistic Producer of the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival, founding member of Terminal City Dance Research

Savannah Walling Part 1 · Part 2
Theatre artist, writer, performer, Artistic Director of Vancouver Moving Theatre and the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival, founding member of Terminal City Dance Research, dancer in Coming Out of Chaos (1982)

Karen Jamieson
Artistic Director and choreographer of Karen Jamieson Dance, founding member of Terminal City Dance Research, choreographer and dancer in Coming Out of Chaos (1982)

Barbara Clausen
Founder of New Works Performance Society (1993), Executive Director of The Dance Centre (1987-1991), Managing Director of Terminal City Dance Research (1983-1985)

Kaija Pepper
Dance researcher and historian, author of The Man Next Door Dances: The Art of Peter Bingham (2007), co-editor of Renegade Bodies: Canadian Dance in the 1970s (2012), editor of Dance International Magazine

 

Mid-career Dance Artists &
Body to Body Collaborators:

Amber Funk Barton
Dance artist, choreographer, founder of the response., collaborator on Karen Jamieson’s Body to Body piece

Josh Martin
Dance artist, co-founder of Company 605, collaborator on Karen Jamieson’s Body to Body piece

Darcy McMurray
Dance artist, Pilates instructor, collaborator on Karen Jamieson’s Body to Body piece

 

Dance Historians, Critics, & Scholars: 

Peter Dickinson
Performance Studies scholar, Professor at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts, author of My Vancouver Dance History: Story, Movement, Community (2020)

Kaija Pepper
Dance researcher and historian, author of The Man Next Door Dances: The Art of Peter Bingham (2007), co-editor of Renegade Bodies: Canadian Dance in the 1970s (2012), Editor of Dance International Magazine

Max Wyman
Dance historian, dance critic, author of Dance Canada: An Illustrated History (1989)