Ascension 2025
SCA Student Produced Collaborative Dance Event
December 11 鈥� 13, 2025 | 7:00 PM
Room 4270 鈥� SFU School for the Contemporary Arts
149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
Tickets: Students (with valid Student ID) + Underemployed $5 // Seniors + SFU Alumni / Faculty / Staff $10 // General $15
Ascension is an interdisciplinary production produced and performed by undergraduate students from the Dance, Music & Sound, and Performance Production & Design programs at SFU鈥檚 School for the Contemporary Arts. Ascension provides an opportunity for students to push artistic boundaries, collaborate and create an original work outside of class time.
The 2025 production of Ascension features nine works exploring the opposing forces of the natural & unnatural, simple & complex, and harmony & disharmony. The intricacies of human emotion and perception, from the depths of grief and melancholy to the dreamlike spaces between memory, illusion, and awakening are considered through the careful balance of movement, sound, and lighting.
Directors
Artistic Directors & Dance Area Representatives: Ashley Sankaran-Wee & Jeya Thiessen
Technical Director & Performance Production & Design Area Representative: Edison Cheung
Music & Sound Area Representative: Caitlin Terrell
Choreographers
Teddy Brubacher, Vivien Dang, Gabrielle Johnson, Aleni Koorjee, Sonja Kwantes, Daisy de Kroon, Soleil Mousseau, Penelope Patterson, Kaliyah States
Sound Designers
Lauren Butterfield, Manoah Epp, Noah Devji, Atticus Gilchrist, Raine Hermosa, Daniela Frances James, Adelya Mullasheva, Anthony Nguyen, Sascha O'Neill
Lighting Designers
Czarina Agustines, Jessica Kwon, Maddy Woodley, Mars de Menezes, Patrick Maka, Sky Logan, Theo Seto
Production Team
Production Team Stage Managers: Kady Brandel and Vania Ngok
Assistant Manager: Sarah van Wouw
Sound Operator: Oliver Medrano
Performers
Sienna Allen, Reanna Ayranto, Angelina Bertin, Safiyah Brito, Teddy Brubacher, Lauren Butterfield, Vivien Dang, Neve Fioravanti, Riordan Fisher, Ellen Harris, Hannah Jajic, Maralee Joyner, Liz Kiss, Aleni Koorjee, Ayla Kipkie, Daisy de Kroon, Sonja Kwantes, Claire Martin, Reese Magnayon, Soleil Mousseau, Mia O'Neill, Naz Ozlu, Emillie Peer, Penelope Patterson, Lucy Price, Madeleine Quennec, Sophie Riedl, Larkin Schering, Amaru Seki, Theo Seto, Kaliyah States, Kenzie States, Jeya Thiessen, Yarra Tsiakos, Sarah Wilson, Claire Whitelaw, Jennifer Yang, Xinxin Zhou
Special Thanks
Justine A. Chambers, Lisa Gelley, Mauricio Pauly, Rob Kitsos, Wladimiro A. Woyno R. & Brady Cranfield