I don’t think that I would be here now, doing what I’m doing in the way I’m doing it, if I hadn’t had the opportunity to work with Barb and be supported by New Works over the years. It was their guidance that helped us go from an idea to an organization.

Barb helped me form Aeriosa Dance Society in 2005; she helped the original board members put together the constitution, articulate the purposes of the Society and become a registered non-profit organization. Without that structure, we wouldn’t have had the supports we needed to continue developing the company and self-producing dance works. Dance Allsorts, the Pop Up series, some of those classic New Works programs helped us build our audience for vertical dance in Vancouver.

Working with New Works to produce In Situ, a large-scale performance for the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad, was a huge achievement for Aeriosa—it reached 6000 people.