I explore what it means to be an embodied being, living in relationship to seasonal rhythms & tides while living & working in an urban setting.  A life-long interest in movement has led me to become a kinesiologist and somatic movement educator.

I embrace the perspective that nature is our true nature and that dance, movement, art, and sound are essential ways to experience and express this interconnectedness. I am honored to be a part of Vines – to participate in the co-creation of spaces and places where we get to learn, heal, and remember this together.

As a fourth-generation settler to Turtle Island, I am grateful to live on this unceded land.

Two dance pieces continue to echo in impression: Bill T Jones’ “Fete” and Liz Lerman’s “Small Dances About Big Ideas” are with me still.

Joyce Rosario is performing arts curator, facilitator and consultant based on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver BC) and is the first generation of her Pangasinan family to be born on this territory. Joyce’s practice is guided by values of collaboration, rigour and care and over her career has gained broad exposure in interdisciplinary, experimental and community-based performance. She is a certified facilitator of the Critical Response Process and is currently a Cultural Planner at the City of Vancouver. Early in the pandemic she was a freelancer with organizations such as The Cultch, Museum of Vancouver, Canada Dance Festival, and Fascinator Management. Previously, Joyce spent over 15 years in programming and senior leadership positions in Canada, including PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, New Works and Made in BC – Dance on Tour. She studied Theatre Production/Design at UBC following her first foray in performance as a teenage participant in a ‘new genre’ public art project by Suzanne Lacy.