Crosscurrents

Crosscurrents brings together three emerging choreographers—Juolin Lee, Simran Sachar and Sevrin Emnacen-Boyd— presenting two powerful pieces exploring memory, identity, and rebirth.

 

Online ticket reservation will start on Tuesday, May 12, 2026, 1:00 PM.

2026 edition
Crosscurrents
May 26 — 7:00pm
Free (with reservation) - Maison de la culture Janine-Sutto
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Description

Here is your opportunity to see the recent work of four up-and-coming BC-based dance artists who are all alumni of the Dance West Network Re-centering/Margins Residency program: Juolin Lee, Simran Sachar and Sevrin Emnacen-Boyd.

Crosscurrents is the result of a successful off-off-showcase produced by Dance West Network at the May 2025 Festival TransAmerique.

A conversation with the artists will follow the performances.

These dance works are created on the traditional, ancestral and unceded Coast Salish territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.

Program

Solo Juolin Lee – Soup of Forgetfulness
Inspired by a Taiwanese myth, this solo traces the passage between memory and rebirth, where forgetting becomes a liberation from the past.

Duo Simran Sachar and Sevrin Emnacen-Boyd – Lost Future in the Premonition
A street dance duet where the past haunts the present. Through breaking and whaacking, Simran Sachar and Sevrin Emnacen-Boyd explore the turbulence of time and memory in motion.

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Biographies

Juolin Lee

Juolin Lee is a Taiwanese-Canadian emerging dance artist who is fascinated by the transformative power of dance. She feels fortunate to live, learn and work on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Juolin’s understandings of dance were shaped by her training in Modus Operandi Contemporary Dance program and influenced by her engagement with artists in the community that she greatly admires, such as Natalie TY Gan, Ziyian Kwan, Emmalena Fredriksson, Arash Khakpour, and Zahra Shahab. Through openness and curiosity, Juolin wishes to continuously unpack her idea of self and her relationship with the world.

©Albert Normandin

Sevrin Emnacen-Boyd

Sevrin Emnacen-Boyd is a Filipino-Canadian b-boy, dance artist, and an enthusiast of all things rhythmic and expressive. Sevrin’s approach to dance is recognized for his emphasis on musicality, concept creation, and for embracing movements uncommonly explored in breaking. His style reflects his deep passion for continental philosophy, and he often seeks to define a practice that bridges the gap between the movement arts and critical theory. With over twenty years of experience in Vancouver’s street dance scene, Sevrin has sought to support this community over the years through organizing a number of youth-oriented street dance battles with the City of Surrey as well as events in collaboration with VIDF, Dance West Network and CADA/West. Sevrin has competed and performed in a variety of international street dance events in cities such as Amsterdam, Paris, Manila, Singapore, and Tokyo. He is an active member of Vancouver’s Now Or Never Crew, Scndrlz, and Think Twice Japan. 

©Shawn Kim

Simran Sachar

Simran Sachar is a choreographer, dance artist, writer, and actor who currently dedicates time to their artistic practice in Vancouver, Canada on the unceded, ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. She is a captivating anomaly in this industry known for her work as a contemporary and street dance artist and choreographer. As a performer she’s contributed her skills in various film, television, theatre productions, and Canadian dance companies, as well as the street dance scene where she’s known for her exceptional abilities as a freestyle dancer, strong storytelling skills and fluid precision.

Through live choreography, text, film, or XR technology, Sachar’s work uncovers distorted memories and how they disfigure us, the duality of horror and beauty, and the functions within W*acking.

This past year, Sachar co-choreographed with Justine A. Chambers on a newly commissioned dance work titled “Today is the evening to strike lightning/Aaj To Bijiliyan Girane Ki Shaam Hai” which premiered on July 5th, 2025 at Indian Summer Festival to a sold out audience. In Fall 2025, Sachar and Nancy Lee debuted their first directorial collaboration as a public art installation titled “These hands are still at work” commissioned by the Surrey Art Gallery x F.O.R.M.

©Karolina Turek
Partenaire

Dance West Network

Dance West Network: connecting artists and communities in motion is a non-profit organization dedicated to connecting communities across British Columbia and beyond through dance. We support dance artists by nurturing their creative projects with professional development opportunities, networking sessions, tour and residency connections, workshops, online showcases, and resource materials. Our work focuses on increasing awareness and appreciation of contemporary dance, fostering opportunities for equity-seeking artists and audiences, and building connections among artists, presenters, and collaborators throughout BC.

With

Juolin Lee

Sevrin Emnacen-Boyd

Simran Sachar

2026 edition
Crosscurrents
May 26 — 7:00pm
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