Two by Moving Matter
July 24 – August 9, 2026
Lobby Screens
SFU School for the Contemporary Arts
149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
Solum I Soil and Organic Encounters – excerpts are short films by the Moving Matter research project, led by the SCA's Rob Kitsos, in collaboration with SCA alumni Meagan Woods and Beau Han Bridge.
Solum I Soil | 2025 (10:00 min)
This film has been screened at Flatlands Dance Film Festival in Illinois, Liminal Dance Film Festival in Washington DC, Desassossego Short Dance Film Festival in Portugal, Bridge Video in Chicago, Manifest Dance Film Festival in India, and in the installation Elemental Narratives at the International Drawing Center in the Netherlands. The work will also screen at the Bates Dance Festival in Maine in July this year.
Credits
Created by Rob Kitsos, Meagan Woods, and Beau Han Bridge
Choreography by Rob Kitsos and Dancers
Garment and Wearable Designs by Meagan Woods
Dancing by Kayla De Vos, Rob Kitsos, and Lily Wallman
Cinematography and Editing by Beau Han Bridge
Sound Design by Daniel Weintraub
Scenic Design by Uros Sanjevic
Projections by Rob Kitsos
Music by Westport Sunrise Sessions
Text by Marjolein Oele
Production Assistance by Clara Xu
Organic Encounters – excerpts | 2026 (6:00 min)
In 2025, our team received further funding from SSHRC, an Insight Grant, to work on a new series of projects – Moving Matter: Organic Encounters – with a new lead artist and collaborator, Vancouver designer and educator Hélène Day Fraser, who co-created material matters with Keith Doyle at Emily Carr University. MM:OE is currently working with artists out of both SFU and Emily Carr, including visual artists, designers, dancers, and sound/media artists. This compilation of footage are excerpts of choreographic material we documented in April this year. A complete film is in process over the summer.
Credits
Concepts and Direction by Rob Kitsos, Hélène Day Fraser, Meagan Woods, and Beau Han Bridge
Camera by Carlo Marchet
Editing by Rob Kitsos
Choreography by Rob Kitsos and Performers
Performed by Ruby Hockey, Kaia Shukin, Hana Rutka, Emma Wetherill, Forrest Russell, Charlie Van, Ophir Barzilay, Mathilde Rohr, Jaithra Mallipeddi, and Helene Day Fraser
Wearables and Costume Design by Meagan Woods and Emma Wetherill
Lighting by Jessica Kwon
Real time Projection by Lana Schering
Sound by Wyldie Bracewell
Guest appearances by Tristan Aplin, Lauren Butterfield, Vivien Dang, Hona Dixon, Gabrielle Johnson, Liz Kiss, Aleni Koorjee, Daisy de Kroon, Sonja Kwantes, Claire Martin, Penelope Patterson, Sophie Riedl, Lana Schering, Amaru Seki, Esther Silverton, Kaliyah States, and Jeya Thiessen
Special Thanks to Ileanna Sophia Cheladyn, Hailey Gil, Gabriel Kitsos, and Tasha Feh Evans
About Moving Matter
Moving Matter is an ongoing SSHRC Insight-funded research project that centres materials as guiding collaborative forces in the development of groundbreaking choreography, wearables, sound and material/object designs. We are attending to the creative potency that emerges from close interactions between moving/making human beings and moving/making matter. Our research asks: how can non-human or more than human materials be equal collaborators and what innovations emerge when we pay close attention to the dynamic, generative aspects of diverse materials, in a gesture that challenges our often human-centered approach to art making?
From 2022-25, Moving Matter has been led by interdisciplinary dance artist Rob Kitsos, in collaboration with designer/dance artist Meagan Woods, filmmaker Beau Han Bridge, and the music collective Westport Sunrise Sessions. With backgrounds in costume design, choreography and composition, our team of artists developed a methodology for material-led choreographic works, including short film, installation, and live performance.
