She's a rising start in the world of choreography - and now Burnaby's Shannon Moreno has a chance to see her work take centre stage.
The world premiere of Moreno's work Something(s) Relative will take to the stage at the Scotiabank Dance Centre Feb. 16 to 18.
The work is presented by Moreno's company, Science Friction, and it's taking to the stage courtesy of the Iris Garland Emerging Choreographer Award - a biennial award for young B.C. choreographers that Moreno won last year.
It's loosely inspired by Alan Lightman's novel Einstein's Dreams and explores themes of dreaming, time and space, asking whether dreams can truly help us to understand ourselves.
Something(s) Relative is a quartet performed by four top local dancers: Justine Chambers, Alison Denham, Billy Marchenski and Farley Johansson - Moreno's partner and the co-artistic director of Science Friction.
"I'm thrilled to have a great creative team," Moreno said in a video message about the production, noting the four dancers are some of the hottest talents in contemporary dance today.
She added: "I'm excited for you to see what can happen when you get a roomful of fine collaborative artists."
Moreno was born in Vancouver and studied with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet Professional School and the Rudra Béjart Ballet in Switzerland.
She has worked as a dancer with the Gothenberg Opera Ballet in Sweden, the Deutsch Oper am Rhein in Germany and with Link Dance and Wen Wei Dance in Vancouver.
She is a Dance Centre artist-inresidence for the 2011/12 season and a guest teacher for Ballet B.C.
Tickets are $25, or $18 for students and seniors, available at www.tickets tonight.ca or by calling 604-684-2787.
For more about the production, see www.thedancecentre.ca or call 604606-6400.
For more about Science Friction, check out www.sciencefriction.ca.
