Co-founder/Director
Racheal Prince
Racheal Prince received her early training at the Quinte Ballet School under Brian Scott before moving to Calgary to join the Alberta Ballet School’s Post Graduate Program. A recipient of the Ali Pourfarrokh Scholarship and the first graduate of the program to join Alberta Ballet, she spent four seasons performing works by George Balanchine, Emily Molnar, Margie Gillis, Christopher Wheeldon, Jean Grand-Maître, and others.
At 23, Racheal joined Ballet BC, where she danced for twelve acclaimed seasons, touring nationally and internationally to Sadler’s Wells, Movimentos Festival Wolfsburg, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Fall for Dance NYC, BAM, and the International Dance Festival Birmingham. Her performance highlights include Jorma Elo’s 1st Flash, Johan Inger’s Walking Mad and B.R.I.S.A., William Forsythe’s Enemy in the Figure and Work Within Work, as well as works by Sharon Eyal and Ohad Naharin. In 2019/20, she served as Assistant Rehearsal Director, setting the ensemble work for Medhi Walerski’s Romeo and Juliet and Prelude.
Alongside her performance career, Racheal has become a widely respected teacher, mentor, and artistic facilitator. She has taught and coached across major training programs and professional communities, bringing a distinctive approach that elevates physical intelligence and embodied awareness. Racheal is known for nurturing dancers through both technical precision and personal artistic growth, supporting emerging artists as they refine their voices, confidence, and collaborative instincts.
Racheal is the Managing Artistic Director of Dance//Novella, where she co-leads the company’s creative vision, emerging artist initiatives, and educational programming. She is also the Managing Director of C-Space (Progress Lab 1422), a vital arts hub in East Vancouver supporting creation, collaboration, and community across the performing arts.
Co-founder/Director
Brandon Lee Alley
Brandon Lee Alley (he/him) was born in North Carolina and now lives on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples in Vancouver. His professional career began with Hubbard Street 2 and BODYTRAFFIC before leading him to Ballet BC, where he danced for five seasons.
Since then, Brandon has performed with artists and companies including Out Innerspace, Company 605, Anne Plamondon, Inverso productions and Idan Cohen. Since 2022, he has collaborated and performed internationally with Crystal Pite’s Kidd Pivot, in the acclaimed productions Revisor and Assembly Hall.
Brandon is also the co-founder of Dance//Novella alongside his wife, Racheal Prince. Together, they have created works for SALT Contemporary Dance and Alberta Ballet, with presentations through festivals including Dancing on the Edge, SOUND OFF Festival, and Vancouver International Dance Festival. Their work has also been supported through residencies with organizations such as Dance Victoria and Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and through their time as 2021–22 Artists in Residence at Ballet BC. Through partnerships with The Polygon Gallery and The Dance Centre, and with support from the Canada Council for the Arts, foundations, and community supporters, Dance//Novella creates bold interdisciplinary dance theatre that merges movement, sound, design, and theatricality through collaborative, site responsive, and artist led creation while continuing to cultivate transformative platforms for emerging artists.
As an educator, Brandon has shared with organizations including Modus Operandi, Arts Umbrella, and Richmond Academy of Dance, as well as through intensives and international masterclasses.
An accredited audio engineer, Brandon also creates original soundscapes exploring the relationship between sound, memory, and movement, including tactile audio experiments using SUBPAC technology. Most days, he is juggling, composing, or creating alongside Racheal in pursuit of curiosity and connection.
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