"To watch and be ignited by the work of Subscura is unforgettable."
-Lola Frost, Professional Burlesque Artist, Instructor and Art Model
EMILY
Artistic Director/Performance Artist
Emily's passion for art and expression is a constant force in her life, taking priority and becoming her central focus. With several years of performance experience in dance, circus, and theatrics, she is committed to using the body to invent, infuse, inspire, re-wire, confuse, and create. The messages delivered in Emily's work are always thought provoking—challenging the comfortable, questioning everything, shape-shifting and spirit-lifting; she delivers a non-conforming experience.
Claire
Project Manager/Designer/Performance Artist
Often a mover, sometimes a dancer, always creating, Claire explores her deep curiosity and healing through somatics using movement and sound, it is here she meets herself in the reflections of these expressions.
Her training began with ballet and rhythmic gymnastics and eventually moved through hip hop, breakdancing, contortion, circus arts, clowning, butoh and eventually performance art. This hunger for new experiences, mediums and a deeper understanding of herself and her world also appears in her visual arts, and saw her pursue a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Emily Carr University of Art & Design along with a business in seamstressing, leatherwork and jewelry. Claire designs and produces all the costumes, props and makeup for Subscura and lives to learn and create.
Along with being a certified gymnastics coach and yoga/acro-yoga teacher, Claire models, performs, and produces props for TV and Film as well as taking custom commissions. You can see more of her work at https://clairejemima.wixsite.com/the-artist and on Instagram @clairejemima.