Joyce Rosario
Joyce Rosario is a performing arts curator, producer and facilitator based in Vancouver BC. She is in the first cohort of the Critical Response Process certification program led by Liz Lerman and John Borstel. Joyce was with the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival for seven years until June 2020 in various curatorial and senior leadership positions, including Interim Artistic Director during a period of post-founder organizational transition. Previously, Joyce spent 10 years in the Canadian dance milieu, leading organizations such as New Works and Made in BC – Dance on Tour. Her formal training is in Theatre Production/Design from the University of British Columbia, and in her early career was once nominated for a Jessie Richardson award in Costume Design. Her first foray in performance was as a teenage participant in Turning Point, a new genre public art project by Suzanne Lacy. Joyce is a first-generation Canadian of Filipina descent, privileged to live on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.