605 Artists Shay Kuebler and Josh Martin will be traveling to Ottawa to represent and handful of British Columbian artists at The National Arts Centre’s showcase event “BC Scene”. Shay will be performing a solo with MovEnt’s “Dances For A Small Stage”, and Josh will be dancing in Wen Wei Wang’s Rio Tinto Alcan Award winning “Cock-Pit”. More info available here.

In January 2009, The Collective received a two-week creation residency at Usine-C in Montréal. Now, after a long break, 605 will be returning to this initial material in May/June to complete their first full-length creation as Artists-In-Residence at The Dance Centre, Vancouver. The new work will be performed at this years Dancing On The Edge Festival @ The Firehall Arts Centre, July 2009 (Dates TBA).

Through the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, The 605 Collective has just begun work on a new piece created by Dana Gingras (Holy Body Tattoo, Animals of Distinction). The commission project for five dancers, including guest Amber Funk Barton, will be created over three separate processes both in Vancouver and Montreal. The results of this exciting project will be shown in Fall 2009 in Vancouver. Check back for updates!