Gentle Glory: Dance Performance & Movement Workshop

Saturday October 11th 2025 – Join us for an afternoon of dance! Free and open to all

2:00 pm – Civic Plaza: Performance + Artists’ talk-back

3:30 pm – North Vancouver City Library: Movement workshop

Gentle Glory is a solo dance work by Rachel Helten that explores gentleness and empathy as pathways to liberation. Drawing from her personal experience navigating mental health challenges Rachel examines how a deep connection to self mother earth and the wisdom of animism fosters healing and strength in an often violent world. The piece advocates for emotional intelligence as essential for greater awareness celebrating vulnerability as a courageous act of alchemical transformation. It also reflects on how proximity can humanize or dehumanize emphasizing the need to lean in and honour the sensitivity sentience and humanity of all through care.

The performance will be followed by an informal artists’ talk-back and a 45-minute creative movement workshop creating a space for collective exploration of themes such as embodied empathy and resilience.

Free and open to all

This program is made possible thanks to the support of the Province of British Columbia and Metro Vancouver as well as the City of North Vancouver and the District of North Vancouver through the Arts & Culture Grants Program of the North Vancouver Recreation & Culture Commission

​​​​​​​poster photo credit: Emily Welz

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