Theatre & Dance

Directed by Ruby Wu. Possessive Perception blends dreamlike moments with sensory experiences to explore a relationship that is either a personal situationship or a political conflict. Moving through colonial and post-colonial periods, the story exists in a dream world, where three actors—one male neutral character and two female characters representing Taiwan and China—navigate their complex connections. The female characters act like shadows of each other, constantly reflecting and mirroring each other’s actions and emotions. While the male character serves as a guide, actively bringing the characters together and keeping them apart.   

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Scent is used throughout the performance to heighten the emotional atmosphere, with different smells representing different moods and political situations. Simple staging, lighting, and costumes aspire to add to the dreamlike feel of the piece.   

By combining dream logic, political themes, and our olfactory senses, the performance invites the audience to see the relationship between Taiwan and China as both personal and political. It challenges the audience to consider our deep entanglements of identity, relationship, and history.

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This performance contains the scent of green tea, flashing images, and loud noises.

Watch Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4T7CeyTGcA

With the gracious support of the Scotia Dance Centre 12 Minutes Max Fall residency 2023 and an ongoing Dance West Network Re-Centering Margins Residency, this long-term project is starting its first iteration as an interdisciplinary solo work deeply inspired by the C.S. Lewis interplanetary, theological, fantasy trilogy for which the artist is named Perelandra. This novel follows an author insert main character. A wealthy, white, Christian, Cambridge Professor named Dr. Elwin Ransom is asked by “Maledil” (A God) to travel to Venus and prevent the fall of Eden actively being facilitated by his former fellow academic Weston whose body becomes puppeted by a satanic demon. Utilizing the amazing tool that science fiction can be to represent a possible utopia as well as its ability of an inverted “alien invasion” to mirror the very real existential horror and lasting trauma of settler colonialism to a non-Indigenous audience. THE PERELANDRA PROJECT seeks, in turn, to challenge its audience with uncomfortable questions and aesthetics regarding religion, race, and gender and choreographer Perelandra Waddle has hopes of building this work into a full-length theatrical artistic adaptation.

Blurring the lines between installation, film, dance and theater, and taking inspiration from Day for Night / Le Nuit American by François Truffaut and documentaries of film set environments of legendary film directors, STRANGE JOY explores the behind-the-scenes of making a film. Written, conceived and directed by Erika Latta.

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Video available here.

Performed at the 2023 SFU Live Acts Festival Senior Dance Show Propositions at the Goldcorp Center for the Arts.

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Inspired by the masterful horror mangaka Junki Ito, this choreographic movement piece draws from the Lovecraftian evil force present in his 1989 serial seinen manga series ‘‘Uzumaki’’ by having three performers etch unusual swirling pathways with the body in space. Meaning “spiral” in Japanese UZUMAKI draws from many sources of aesthetic inspiration such as cult brainwashing, worker alienation, and female objectification.

This art piece features Perelandras multidisciplinarity with contemporary dance choreography, a curated soundscape, gif projection, and lighting design.

Video available here.

An original physical theatre community performance written and directed by Lindsey McAlister. Sponsored and performed for Bank of East Asia's Green Festival.

An original LGBT+ play by Lindsey McAlister.

Physical theatre about women's body. Directed by Lindsey McAlister.

Addams Family the musical. Directed by William Yip. 

Snow Dragon by Lizzie Nunnery. Directed by Paul Gatiss.

Written by John Weidman. Directed by William Yip.

Student director and sound.

A play written and directed by Jeremy Sampson.

Decade by Tony Kushner, John Logan and Paul Laverty. Directed by Susannah Atherton. An episodic play about 9/11. Each actor plays multiple characters.

You're A Good Man Charlie Brown the Musical. Directed by Jennifer Barclay.

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella. Directed Howard Paley

Narnia the musical. Directed by Anabel Hull.