Springboard Performance

ABOUT US

Springboard is a non-profit organization devoted to connecting artists, mediums, audiences, the body and the mind through physical contemporary creation and public space manipulation.

ARTISTIC MISSION

Springboard bridges disciplines with clustered festival programming, creative residencies, workshops, lectures, performances and round table discussions. Springboard champions exploration of physical contemporary practices; in deepening understanding of art and ideas, and supports the aesthetic risk-taking that challenges both artists and audiences with new ways of seeing, representing and responding to contemporary life.

Under the artistic direction of Nicole Mion, Springboard maintains four separate arms of company activity:

- containR - a Pop-up arts and community installation, built from recycled shipping containers. Currently installed in Sunnyside.

- Fluid Movement Arts Festival Contemporary performance and dance festival of regional, national, and international artists.

- Interrarium Creation residency for professional artists at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Interrarium is an international multi-disciplined platform for contemporary performance that explores and reveals creative practice.

- Creation and Dissemination of work by Artistic Director Nicole Mion. Creation and Dissemination: of new modes of creativity and interdisciplinary performance for stage and screen integrating dance, theatre, new media and installation.