Salina Dewar
Salina Dewar is a community dancer who came to ABDP in 2017. She has attended many community dances and performed several times with other community dancers. Outside of dance, Salina loves to sing and is passionate about social justice. She previously practiced law and currently works in the non-profit sector, as an advocate for people with disabilities. She identifies as a person with a disability.
Hilary Maxwell
Hilary Maxwell is a dance artist and arts administrator based in Vancouver, BC. She holds a BA and MFA in Dance from the University of Calgary. Since 2011, she has worked as the Member Services Coordinator at The Dance Centre in Vancouver, where she handles member engagement and outreach coordination with students and seniors.
From 2007 – 2011, Hilary was a sessional instructor in the Department of Dance at the University of Calgary and the Artistic Associate at Dancers' Studio West in Calgary. As a dance artist, Hilary has worked for notable artists and companies such as Danse Carpe Diem / Emmanuel Jouthe, Les Productions Figlio and Company 605 (Canada), W&M Physical Theatre (Canada/Poland), and German Jauregui (Belgium). She sits on the board of directors of the Training Society of Vancouver and All Bodies Dance Project. Hilary is also a contributing writer with Dance International Magazine.
Carmen Papalia
Carmen Papalia is an artist who uses organizing strategies and improvisation to address his access to public space, the art institution, and visual culture. His work, which takes forms ranging from collaborative performance to public intervention, is an effort to unlearn visual primacy and resist support options that promote ableist concepts of normalcy. Papalia’s work has been featured at: The Solomon R. Guggenheim museum, New York; the Tate Liverpool, Liverpool; the Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana; the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff; and Gallery Gachet, Vancouver; among others. Papalia was a 2019 Sobey long list recipient. He has received the 2014 Adam Reynolds Memorial Bursary and the 2013 Wynn Newhouse Award. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and a Master of Fine Arts with a focus in Art & Social Practice from Portland State University.
Laura June Albert
Laura June Albert loves dancing, researching about dance, and organizing in community. She has been coordinating and designing work at intersections of art and social justice since 2007. Her work is driven by questions about representation, access, and inclusion in the arts. When not sitting on the board at ABDP, she keeps herself busy working as Grants and Community Initiatives Manager at Indian Summer Arts Society, and teaching body positive dance classes in East Vancouver. She holds an MA in Contemporary Arts Studies at SFU, and has worked in the arts as a performer, instructor, and lecturer in over ten cities on Turtle Island and abroad. As an uninvited settler, Laura June holds tremendous respect for the MST Host Nations for their leadership and land stewardship despite unjust and ongoing colonial occupation. She aims for her work to always be in solidarity with the keepers of these lands and waters.
