Dance Styles
The sprites leap and twirl, stand stalk still as statues, fly with their feathered feet, pound out a rhythmic, pulsing pattern and bestow wishes on their watchers. Drawing on the intensive and varied training of each of the dancers, the trio brings together modern and improvisational dance and movement with a highly attuned sense of attention to their audience. They animate outdoor drum circles and processions, join hands in faerie circles with diminutive dancers, create mimetic tableaux while balanced on boulders or bridges and dance sinuously through parties and gala events.
Jie Delights! is a splash of flying colour:we are the yellow sprite, the purple sprite and the fuchsia sprite. Over our full-length shiny skin-tight suits, decorated with feathers and jewels, each performer adds accessories according to her sprite colour and according to the ambiance of the event. At outdoor summer festivals, we attach long, flowing scarves that blow in the wind and look like wings or veils and we become a blur of moving colour against green grass or reflected in the water of a lake. At New Years and other nighttime celebrations, we have sparkly, glittery wigs and sequined masks. At galas, we put on our feather masks, feathered arm and ankle cuffs and tails.For rainy weather, we have our Jie umbrellas to brighten the day:yellow, purple and fuchsia!
2004
Metropolis to Exurbia, Conference on Sustainability
Cirque de Soleil Party Cast Party
Popstart Performance Art Inauguration Party
Circus of Dreams
Mascall Dance Garden Dances
Illuminares Lantern Festival
World Earthquake Engineering Conference
Wild Lights Lantern Festival
Coho Salmon Society 25th Anniversary Gala
Lifestyles Centre Opening
Dance Centre Anniversary Celebration
Intrawest Christmas Party
Winter Solstice Lantern Procession
2003
The 15th Anniversary Illuminares Event, Trout Lake Park
Burnaby Festival of Lights, Dear Lake Park
Vancouver International Film Festival Gala, Hotel Georgia Plaza
Halloween Family Day, Kitsilano Community Centre
Parade of Lost Souls, Grandview Park
Winter Solstice Lantern Procession, Granville Island
2002
Illuminares Festival, Trout Lake Park
Burnaby Festival of Lights, Deer Lake Park
Parade of Lost Souls, Grandview Park
Winter Solstice Lantern Procession, Granville Island
First Night 2003 New Years Celebrations, Granville Island
1999
Illuminares Festival, Trout Lake Park
Circus of Dreams, Mclean Park
Parade of Lost Souls, Grandview Park
Janet Walker
...is a performer with training in dance, theatre and voice. She creates her own work and dances for The Historical Performance Society, True North Performance and Jie Delights! She studied at Main Dance School in Vancouver, the European Dance Development Centre in The Netherlands and the Goat Island Summer School for Theatre in the UK. Her great loves are physical and vocal improvisation, theatre-dance, Contact Improvisation, Baroque dance and Argentine tango. She is a member of the Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists (CADA).
Espirito Santo Mauricio
...originally from the Azores, Espirito performed, danced and sang before moving to Canada in 1982.She graduated in 2000 from the Main Dance Bridging program and has been an active performer and creator of her own work since 1998.She has had the opportunity to work with Kokoro Dance, Helen Walkley, Body Cartography and MACHiNENOiSEY.Espirito continues to study Butoh, modern dance, Contact, flamenco and yoga while researching and creating her own work.She is member of CADA.
Kirsten Wiren
...a independant dance artist, Kirsten has been active in the Vancouver and Vancouver Island dance communities since graduating from the S.F.U. dance program. She has worked for a number of choreographers on shows, including the iDub project at the Scotiabank Dance Centre. She is also a dance educator and choreographer. She is a member of CADA.
The original Jie Delights!
Janet, Espirito and Irens
Trout Lake Park 1999
