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Studio Salon Series: Spring 2026 Our Studio Salon Series returns, featuring works-in-progress by three local artists.
April 29th, 2026 @ 5:00PM
What Lab 1814 Pandora St Vancouver BC, V5L 1M5
Our Studio Salon Series returns, featuring works in progress by three local artists. This event will be live at What Lab (#202-1814 Pandora St, Vancouver) on Wednesday April 29th, 2025 @ 5 PM. In-person audience capacity is limited to 40 people.
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Kay Huang (she/her) is a choreographer, educator, dance artist based in Vancouver, on the traditional, unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. She danced professionally with Karen Jamieson Dance from 1987 to 1996 and has been choreographing her own works since 1992. Kay’s choreography explores themes of cultural identity, social justice, and personal narrative. Her creative practice often incorporates interdisciplinary elements, including photography, digital projections, spoken text, and set design, to create layered and immersive experiences.
Photo credit: Dayna Szyndrowski
Simran Sachar (she/her) is a choreographer, dance artist, writer, and actor based in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Known for her presence in contemporary and street dance, she works across film and TV, theatre, XR, and public art. Sachar is currently in the process of choreographing her first ensemble dance theatre work titled Twister. Recent highlights include co-choreographing Today is the evening to strike lightning (Indian Summer Festival, 2025), co-directing These hands are still at work (Surrey Art Gallery), premiering her XR film The Edge of The Underworld (2024), and her live dance work ACT TWENTY FIVE. Her films BETA बेटा and LUNACY have screened nationally, with LUNACY earning an Audience Choice Award.
Photo credit: Marshall To
Contemporary dance artist, certified Laban Movement Analyst and somatic movement educator Helen Walkley (she/her) has, since 1980, lived and worked extensively in the Netherlands, Germany and the U.S. creating, performing and teaching. She completed an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studies in SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts in 1996 and has since been based in Vancouver. Most recently Helen was the recipient of The Dance Centre’s Isadora Award which recognizes an artist’s outstanding contribution to dance in British Columbia and in 2022 she received the Lola McLaughlin Legacy Award.
Photo credit: Chris Randle
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ACCESSIBILITY
What Lab is wheelchair accessible by a set of doors leading from the alley between Pandora St. And Franklin Ave. The front entrance has a flight of stairs.
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Event Venue
What Lab, 1844 Franklin St, Vancouver, BC V5L 1P8, Canada
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