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We Begin.

During our residency at The Grand in Calgary for their TJLAB sessions we invited filmmaker Kevin Dong to join us in the space and capture some moments of the Monkeys at work. #webeginwithanemptystudio is a short documentary to introduce ourselves at Dancing Monkey Laboratories. We are interested in researching, exploring, discovering and deconstructing what performance can […]

Collisions in the TJ lab.

Next up in the Laboratory: Dancing Monkey has been invited to participate in Theatre Junction’s Lab sessions. A week long residency of exploration and continued workshopping of our original interdisciplinary dance piece WE MUST COLLIDE. From January 18th to the 22nd 2016 with a public outcome on Friday the 22nd at 8pm – then drinks…. Featuring: Melissa Tuplin, […]

There’s a Monkey on the Radio.

In September, Melissa Tuplin – Monkey and (S)cientist – was in Montreal and sat down with Dirty Feet Podcast to talk about Dancing Monkey Laboratories and her deep love for Calgary artists and organizations. Have a listen: http://www.nomoreradio.com/dirtyfeet/156/ Dirty Feet is a weekly podcast on the topic of dance and movement based performing arts.

(IN) VISIBLE COLLISIONS – A New Short Film

(IN) VISIBLE COLLISIONS is a short film – or a photo-collage – based on Dancing Monkey’s workshop of WE MUST COLLIDE. This work is created to allow the production to have a life past the stage and into new mediums. WE MUST COLLIDE is a high energy, kinetic, interdisciplinary piece exploring the violence of stillness […]

Show pictures – WE MUST COLLIDE

Click here to see pictures from the WE MUST COLLIDE workshop process.