I will be creating a new work with the dancers participating in NW Dance Project’s Summer Intensive MOVE.
To read more about the program click here: https://nwdanceproject.org/education/move
I will be performing a short solo as part of Dances for a Small Stage as part of the 2025 Push Festival
More information here:
https://www.smallstage.ca/dances-for-a-small-stage/smallstage2025
photo by: Michael Slobodian, from “Fortress”
I am creating a new piece for the oldest dancers in Arts Umbrella’s Graduate program.
Link to information and tickets: https://www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticketing/moving-sound
This intimate performance peels back the veil on the collaborative process, welcoming you to immerse yourself in cross-disciplinary creation. Witness a coming together of a trio of dancers and a trio of musicians as they reflect, respond, listen, and compose four distinct pieces in a real-time improvised encounter!
Featuring musicians: Jack Campbell, Andrea Kahr, and Alex Varty.
Featuring dancers: Alexis Fletcher, Justin Rapaport, and Rebecca Margolick
Tushrik Fredericks and I are premiering our co-creation on November 21st to 23rd in Brooklyn, NY at Triskelion Arts.
Support for this project was provided by Danse Mirage Foundation, Inc, Trust for Mutual Understanding, and Baryshnikov Arts Center Artist Residency.
In partnership with The Dance Centre, Chutzpah! presents the world premiere of Livona Ellis and Rebecca Margolick’s collaborative duet “Fortress” in a Split Bill with Ne Sans Opera & Dance.
November 8th and 9th at The Dance Centre Vancouver.
Description: In their debut collaborative piece, Margolick and Ellis explore their connection to their ever-evolving relationship to femininity, and the balance between their strength and vulnerability. Seeking both discomfort and safety, they draw inspiration from the matriarchs in their lives, building toward a deeper understanding of themselves.
I will be performing in the duet “The Ones Who Never Lived” by Montreal based choreographer Jason Martin as part of Festival Quartiers Danses.
More information and tickets please click HERE
UAQUE tickets
With UAQUE, Peña opens the SPHERE Festival in spectacular fashion by creating a dialogue between dance, visual arts and music (performed by the NAC Orchestra, with Alexander Shelley conducting). In the background, Edward Burtynsky’s astonishing images paint a fascinating self-portrait of the planet, illustrating the duality between beauty and the environmental crisis beneath the surface. Ten dancers, in tension and in conversation with these images, create a moment suspended in time in which humanity and nature are united. With this work, Peña asks us to slow down and create a sustainable future, leaving a glimmer of hope in the dancers’ wake.
I will be in residence at the Dance Centre, collaborating with violinist Hannah Epperson. We will be revisiting our piece “Catenary” which we began creating in 2018 but took a long hiatus from because of the pandemic.
There will be a public work in progress sharing on: July 25th at 17hr PST
I will be creating a new work for Oregon Ballet Theater, that will premiere June 6th in Portland, OR as part of their Made in Portland 2023/2024 Program.
Check out the company and their work here: https://www.obt.org/about-obt/
I will be joining the cast of 6.58: MANIFESTO for a tour to Paris April 24 & 25 and Falkenberg, Sweden May 2nd. I am so excited to dive into this piece with such an incredible cast!
I am creating a new piece for Arts Umbrella Tour. that will be touring through the Vancouver North Island Region presented by BC Movement Arts Society.
I will be premiering Reservoir a new solo, at Triskelion Arts in Brooklyn NY as part of their Split Bill series. I am excited to be sharing the evening with Kashia Kancey performing her solo I Believed It Too.
March 14th and 15th at 8pm
Tickets can be purchased here: HERE (they’re cheaper in advance, so don’t wait!)
"Fortress" by Livona Ellis and Rebecca Margolick, exploring the vulnerability of Matriarchs, and "Here it is" by Anya Saugstad, a unique duet confronting the fear of death.
Inspired by Sheila Heti, this performance on January 25, 2024, at Left of Main (7pm), delves into the essence of womanhood and the brevity of life.
Tickets here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/plasticorchidfactory/1011889
This month, Chutzpah! Festival is hosting Livona Ellis and I for a two-week residency to continue the creation of our collaborative duet “Fortress”.
I will be a guest performer and choreographer for LITVAK Dance’s Fall Concert in Encinitas, California on November 18th and 19th 2023. I will be performing my short solo Harbour.
SUMMIT: THROUGH HER RISE is a movement summit that has commissioned five female identifying choreographers to share their creative works and wisdom with U-M students and the public at large with workshops happening October 27-28 and a performance on October 28th at 7pm. SUMMIT is a platform where underrepresented artists can come together to present their work at U-M, an R1 university, with the goal of introducing excellent and thought provoking pieces to the Ann Arbor community. This platform aims to create new opportunities to network, share resources and expand U-Ms impact to the broader artistic landscape. Conceived, curated and produced by Associate Professor of Dance, Shannon Gillen, SUMMIT positions itself as a celebratory opportunity for women makers to unite and share their visions broadly.
For tickets and information: Here
Tushrik and I will continue creating our duet throughout a 4-week residency at BAC in NYC.
There will be a free in studio work in progress showing on November 16th at 13h. Stay tuned for RSVP details.
Over three days in October, choreographer Alexandra Waierstall will present choreographic interludes within the exhibition of Rita McBride: Arena Momentum. In this series of engagements, collectively called Momentum, she will bring together local New York professional dancers and her frequent collaborators from Europe in a unique gathering – a first of its kind. This event will foster a connection between these communities, the public, and the sculpture Arena’s physical space. Alexandra’s choreographic practice has a rich history and has engaged in dialogue with the Arena in various contexts since 2016. Momentum is an opportunity to see the development of a dialogue between two female artists opening new possibilities.
The choreography itself opens a space of attention in which everyone present can find themselves. The process is ongoing, as we address the past, acknowledge the present, and move towards the future.
Momentum, curated by Alexis Lowry, is initiated by visual artist Rita McBride with choreographer Alexandra Waierstall and the experimental performance collective, discoteca flaming star (founded by Cristina Gomez Barrio and Wolfgang Mayer).
Choreographic interludes by Alexandra Waierstall with and for the dancers: Maxi Canion, Ying Yun Chen, Rachel Gill, Scott Jennings, Amy Josh, Dasol Kim, Rebecca Margolick, Andrea Farley Shimota, Karolina Szymura.
With artistic contributions from: Volker Bertelmann, Stavros Gasparatos, Cédric Hopf, Judith Jaeger, Valeria Lampadova, Lucia Vonrhein
Choreographic interludes production by Noema Dance Works e.V., in collaboration with Dia Art Foundation. Supported by: Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kulturamt der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf
I will be performing an excerpt of Bunker + Vault at Broadway Presbyterian Church on 114th and Broadway, NYC at 20hr. The show is Free!
On the program will be dance, visual art, and live music with:
Maya Orchin, Stefanie Nelson, Mignolo Dance, Justin Randolph Thompson, Bradly Dever Treadaway, Erez Kreitner, Jonah Kreitner, & Davison Paul
More information here
I will be performing my solo Reservoir at EDANCO Festival 2023 in a split bill with Spanish artist Carmen Werner.
I will be performing Bunker +Vault in Istanbul on September 18th at ENKA Sanat and September 23rd at Arter. I will be sharing the program with another U.S based dance artist Becca Hoback.
More information and tickets HERE
I will be premiering a new 25 minute solo Reservoir at Festival Quartiers Danses at Studio-Théâtre des Grands Ballets Canadiens | Édifice Wilder in a mixed program with Jane Mappin and Nicholas Zemmour
Tickets available HERE
I will be in a creation residency and teaching at NECIA Studios in Oaxaca creating a new collaborative duet with Montreal based dance artist Jason Martin.
I am performing Bunker + Vault in a split bill with Jason Martin performing his solo Étude nO.1 at Teatro Polivente on Saturday September 2nd at 20hr.
I will be in a creation residency at Centro de las Artes in San Luis Potosí creating a new collaborative duet with Montreal based dance artist Jason Martin.
I will be teaching a week long dance and choreography workshop, using task based improvisation, training, conditioning, and teaching repertory.
More information soon…
I will be in residency for a week with BC Movement Arts Society on Malcolm Island, B.C. to continue creating my new solo Reservoir to premiere at Festival Quartiers Danses in September in Montreal.
Tushrik Fredericks and I are beginning a new duet creation. We have received financial support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding to have residencies in Zagreb at the Croatian Institute for Movement and Dance, and in Sofia at Derida Dance Center. Thank you to TMU, Atanas Maev and Mirna Zagar for supporting this new project!
I am excited to join the cast and perform this work by Annie Rigney on June 23rd + June 24th at the 92Y NYC.
For more information and tickets: 92ny.org/event/annie-rigney
“...she was becoming untethered.”, paints a surrealistic portrait of a woman in both ecstasy and constraint. The work explores points along a continuum of beauty and the grotesque; the mundane and the absurd. The process began by asking if the overwhelming emotion of Opera music could be matched and explored through extreme sustained movements and at what point does heightened emotion tip over the edge from expression, to absurdity, and even into comedy? The dance also serves to ask and answer the questions: what supports us? What uplifts us? And what holds us back?
Come experience a beautiful collaboration of dance and music exploring the theme of finding one's voice in a sea of pollution, predators, competitors, unknowns and uncertainty. Through a 5-part thematic performance, Chelsea Edwardson (music) and Rebecca Margolick (dance) will reflect the paradoxical nature of being human: feeling alone yet also knowing and searching for our interconnectedness. Together, through movement and sound, they dive deep to shine a light on the Inner Ocean, and reveal the beauty of both the darkness and the light on the path towards self-discovery.
