Josh Martin / Company 605

In a blur of fast and slow, this new solo dance exists in a tension between the dizzying feeling of forever 'spinning out' and an attempt to find and hold on to a centre. In a physical proposition of sustained rotation, the body enters a self-induced disorientation and heightened sensorial state as it searches for balance, resisting and riding its own momentum and centrifugal force. Lighthouse is a revolving meditation, a unstable waypoint sending signals out into the distant dark: a call, a warning of caution, a beckoning toward what might approach or collide.

Choreographer: Company 605

Led by artistic co-directors Lisa Mariko Gelley and Josh Martin, Company 605 (605) is an arts organization based in Vancouver, on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded Indigenous territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. The company produces dance projects and performances through shared creative process, placing emphasis on rigorous choreographic propositions and movement exploration — juxtaposing raw with precision, and highlighting effort, risk, and interconnection. 605 is an ongoing exchange between separate people, bodies, and ideas, recognizing the possibilities created in their attempt to co-exist. Valuing collaboration and experimental practice as critical paths for new directions in dance, Company 605 continues to build an evolving aesthetic, shaped by multiple choreographic voices collectively interrogating the embodied human experience.The company has performed in over 36 cities across Canada, alongside extensive international touring throughout the United States, Central America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. 605's award-winning dance films have been shown at over 60 dance-on-screen festivals internationally, and on streaming platforms such as CBC Gem. 605's co-directors have created several commissioned works for other companies including Vancouver's Ballet BC, and regularly create and teach within post-secondary dance education programs across Canada. In 2024, Lisa Mariko Gelley and Josh Martin jointly received the Lola McLaughlin Legacy Award, recognizing their contribution to the BC artistic community through Company 605’s work.

Performer: Josh Martin

Josh Martin (he/him) is dance maker and performer born and raised in Alberta, who has been based in Vancouver, and situated alongside partner and collaborator Lisa Gelley, for nearly 20 years. Exploring multiple roles and pursuits across the performing arts community, he remains committed to a deep movement practice and choreographic curiosity, collaborating within the work of dozens of other companies and independent artists, and co-directing and developing the ongoing creative projects of Company 605. His previous solo works Brimming and Leftovers follow his ongoing investigation of the body as a container of held memory and trauma, and as an active site of reckoning, where experience is re-encountered, processed, and reshaped through movement.

Composer: Matthew Tomkinson

Matthew Tomkinson is a composer and sound designer working across film, theatre, and contemporary dance. He holds a PhD in Theatre from the University of British Columbia, where he specialized in disability art and sound studies. He has collaborated with artists including Company 605, Ballet BC, Théâtre la Seizième, the All Bodies Dance Project, and many solo performers. His debut audiovisual album as Mathoms, The Woe Trumpets, was featured on Bandcamp’s “New and Notable," and premiered at the Chapeltown Picture House in Manchester. Recent projects include a live score for Scott Barley's Sleep Has Her House and an album titled Pulsatilla with the Welsh label Discreet Archive.

Lighting Designer: TBA