This year’s DOTE Festival showcases over thirty performances involving more than twenty innovative choreographers and companies. Artists from across Canada, and around the globe, will dance on stages and in the streets during the ten-day festival, in full length and mixed bill programs, as well as site-specific works. 

The B.C. premiere of Jolene Bailie/Gearshifting Performance Works: Performance of Schemas 1-5  dances about relationships and patterns of behavior. The dance is constructed in five schemas and with each one the dance re-maps itself. Each schema is linked through an abstract narrative that transforms, evolves, and accumulates to reveal perspectives on energy, power, automatic thought, and support. The dance brings an immediacy that is simultaneously direct and open-ended.