Tiffany Tregarthen

Vancouver-based Out Innerspace Dance Theatre (OIS) was founded by David Raymond and Tiffany Tregarthen on unceded Indigenous land of the Coast Salish peoples. David and Tiffany’s studies and early careers lead them to New York, South Korea, Brazil, The Netherlands, The Czech Republic, and Italy before forming their collaboration during a two-year residency in Antwerp, Belgium. Their performance careers include working with Wen Wei Dance, Justine A. Chambers, Company 605, Dana Gingras, Beijing Modern Dance Company and dancing with Kidd Pivot from 2013-2021. OIS’s creations have toured nationally and internationally for 9 years and have been awarded The 2014 CanDance Creation Fund, 2019 Crystal Dance Prize and Associate Artists of Agora de la Danse in Montreal for the next 3 years. Entering their 18th year of collaboration, David and Tiffany created works for Ballet BC (Canada), Netherlands Dance Theatre 2 as well as for Hessisches Staatsballett (Germany) and Gibney Dance (New York). Their latest work Bygones recently performed in Germany, Italy, UK, Hungary, Belgium and across Canada including Julidans (Amsterdam), Torino Danza, Theatre Freiburg, and Canada’s National Arts Centre. Their education program Modus Operandi offering relevant dance development and individualized mentorship generates some of Canada’s most radical and inspired young dance artists.