Justine A. Chambers’ interests lie in collaborative creation and re-imagining dance performance. Drawn to the movement of all bodies and focusing on dances that are already there – the choreographies present in the everyday – she has been creating performance projects throughout Canada since 2000. Chambers is a founding member of project bk and an associate artist with The Dance Centre (2015-2017). Her recent works include The Choreography Walk, Homemade Again, Family Dinner, Family Dinner: The Lexicon, Back It Up, Enters and Exits and COPY. Her choreographic projects have been presented at the Vancouver Art Gallery (FUSE), The Western Front, Dancing on the Edge Festival, Dance in Vancouver, Dance Saskatchewan, New Dance Horizons and The Music Gallery. Recent collaborations include projects with Claudia Fancello, Ben Brown, Su-Feh Lee, Marilou Lemmens & Richard Ibghy, Jen Weih, Brendan Fernandes and Josh Hite. Chambers works actively as a performer, rehearsal director and external monitor for dance artists such as Oded Graf & Yossi Berg, Company 605, Mascall Dance, OutInnerspace Dance Theatre, Tara Cheyenne Performance, adelheid dance projects and Emily Molnar. She leads classes in contemporary dance technique and improvisation at Working Class, Modus Operandi, Arts Umbrella, Ballet BC and The Toronto Community Love-In. Chambers is Max Tyler-Hite’s mother.
