Now in its seventh season, Dance//Novella is a Vancouver dance-theatre company led by Co-Artistic Directors Racheal Prince and Brandon Lee Alley. MPMG will be supporting the world premiere of So to Speak, June 18 and 19, 2027, at the Annex: a first full-length solo choreographed and performed by Brandon, a current artist with Kidd Pivot and former Ballet BC company member.
Virtuosity beside failure. Heartbreak alongside play. How do we keep living when someone we love is suddenly gone? Blending contemporary dance, theatre, original text, clowning, and juggling, So to Speak searches for the tenderness, absurdity, and strange beauty that can coexist with loss and grief. Rather than approaching it as solemn or linear, Brandon embraces contradiction, and the result is both deeply personal and playfully theatrical.
Years in the making, the work grew out of Ballet BC’s Take Form program and has developed through independent research and a two-week residency at Dance Victoria, with dramaturge Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg guiding its expansion into a full-length premiere.