Vancouver Moving Theatre
Celebrating 25 Years
Based in the Downtown Eastside since its founding in 1983, award winning Vancouver Moving Theatre (VMT) has presented thousands of performances, workshops and lectures to over half a million audience members in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
Over these 25 years VMT has collaborated with performing and visual artists of many genres, techniques and traditions to create original repertoire, and to produce numerous education programs, community residencies and festivals. We share our research via cultural services, video documentation, conferences, and articles for arts journals and websites.
Production highlights include Drum Mother’s Gifts, Samarambi: Pounding of the Heart, Runners’ Tale, Blood Music, The Good Person of Setzuan (with Touchstone and Ruby Slippers), Tales from the Ramayana (with Mandala Arts) and Crime and Punishment (with NeWorld and PuSH Festival). Over the last ten years VMT has focused on interdisciplinary arts and community building projects in our home community – including the ground-breaking In the Heart of a City: The Downtown Eastside Community Play (with Carnegie Centre), the giant screen shadow play We’re All In This Together: The Shadows Project – Addiction and Recovery, the tragic-comic A Downtown Eastside Romeo and Juliet, the Strathcona Artist at Home Festival (1999 – 2004) and, with a host of community partners, the Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival (2004 -).
Last spring, while producing the 4th National Canadian Community Play Exchange Symposium, Directors Terry Hunter and Savannah Walling were awarded the 2008 British Columbia Achievement Award.
