Last year's Garden Dances - Dusk at Dawn’s
In the tradition of our annual Garden Dances, the Mascall Dance Society presented…
Mascall’s new creation:
Bean Bar Zambuka
(premiered at the Kay Meek Centre, June of 2006)
Set in a beautiful West Vancouver house and garden, avid gardeners, luxuriants and dance gourmets joined us for Zambukatini cocktails, fine wine, and sensuous flavours
About Garden Dances
In July 2002, Mascall Dance launched Garden Dances. A celebration of gardens and dance, the roots of our concept grow from another well-established and successful celebration - The Secret Garden Tour, which was developed by our colleagues, New Dance Horizons of Regina. Garden Dances has fast become an annual tradition. It involves sixty or more performers, performing in as many as ten West Vancouver homes and gardens annually. This is a feast of an afternoon, with refreshments and art to enjoy as audiences stroll through the unique beauties of neighbouring gardens. Now approaching its fifth year this as a community-building event seems destined to continue for decades to come.
The Garden Tour is different each year. Make an annual date with friends to delight in the dappled light, shade, and fresh air. Savour the inventiveness and allure of horticulture and choreography. Sip tea and allow yourself to slip into reverie of dancers and blooms. Explore this tantalizing Vancouver neighbourhood, decorated tastefully and unexpectedly by dance.
Garden Dances moved inside….
In last years' 4th annual Garden Dances, a Caulfield residence teemed with the wit and mystery of dance inside and out, when the talented and versatile dancers of the Mascall Dance Co. filled a glorious West Vancouver home with site-specific dance. The success of this event has led us to begin interpreting homes as well as gardens through dance. Our upcoming event features several beautiful homes of Vancouver's Western shore, bringing the luxury of beauty and art into inner as well as outer worlds.
Our ongoing committee is constantly on the hunt for homes and gardens. To offer your home and/or garden for participation in our event, please contact: Mascall Dance at 604-669-9337.
Volunteers are at the centre of Garden Dances, an indispensable part of the production; so if you would like to be a part of the inner workings of this delightful event, please let us know.
The Garden Dance Dancers
Sophie Allison
Jessye Ashworth
Sarah Coffin
Jennifer Clarke
Emma Fitzgerald
Claire French
Silvia Gertudix
Katy Harris-MacLeod
Jennifer Macleish Lewis
Dean Makarenko
Tanya Marquardt
Ruby Rowat
Kira Schaeffer
Ron Stewart
Olivia Thorvaldson
Jeannie Vanderkerhove
Imogen White