Young Lungs Dance Exchange 2025-2026 Artist Residency

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Breathing Between is a collaborative movement and sound research project led by Winnipeg-based artists Maribeth “Kilusan” Tabanera (siya/they/she) and Dammecia Hall (she/her), who first worked together in Define Movement in 2007. After more than a decade apart, they reunite to explore how the body remembers collaboration, how rhythm and silence carry emotion, and how communication itself can become an art form.

Drawing from their shared roots in Hip Hop culture, street and contemporary dance, DJ culture, and community-based practice, the artists will explore how American Sign Language (ASL) and audio description can function as co-creative languages—not as translations or supports, but as expressive tools that shape choreography and sound. Alongside an ASL artist and a visual describer, they will create a multi-sensory dialogue between movement, sign, and sound, where each form listens and responds to the others. The project asks what it means to gain access to one’s voice—and whose voices have been historically silenced in artistic spaces. At its core, Breathing Between blurs the lines between dancer, DJ, interpreter, and describer, creating a space where our expressions become inseparable acts of care, witnessing, and transformation.

Collaborator:
Maribeth is collaborating with Dammecia Hall for their residency project.

Residency:
March 23 – April 3, 2026

Open Studio:
Monday, March 30, 2026
3:00 – 5:00pm
Space to Create – 2B-468 Main Street
Pay What You Can

Public Sharing:
Friday, April 3, 2026
7:00–8:30pm
The Output – Artspace – 100 Arthur Street
Pay What You Can

Facilitator: Mariana Muñoz Gómez

Accessibility Information:
Physically Accessible
Gender Inclusive Washrooms
ASL Interpretation Offered

This residency is made possible with support from the Canada Council for the Arts, Manitoba Arts Council, and the Winnipeg Arts Council.