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—heart-first—on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples (Vancouver). A multidisciplinary artist shaped by both curiosity and rigor, his professional journey began with Hubbard Street 2 and BODYTRAFFIC, eventually leading him to Ballet BC, where he danced for five seasons.
Since then, Brandon has continued performing with Vancouver-based artists and collectives, most notably with Company 605, contributing to Sloth Canon—a layered, cross-cultural exchange with Singapore’s T.H.E. Dance Company, presented at the 2025 cont•act contemporary dance festival. Since 2022, he has toured internationally with Crystal Pite’s Kidd Pivot, performing in the award-winning productions Revisor and Assembly Hall.
He is also the co-founder—alongside his wife, Racheal Prince—of Dance//Novella, a dance-theatre company grounded in risk, intimacy, and cross-disciplinary experimentation. Their work has been featured in festivals such as SOUNDOFF (Canada’s leading Deaf Theatre Festival) and the Vancouver International Dance Festival. Dance//Novella has been generously supported through multiple residencies, including with Dance Victoria and, in 2024, at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, where they deepened their inquiry into deconstructing colonial structures, cross-cultural storytelling, and methodological experimentation—guided by multi-hyphenate theatre artist, scholar, and mother Lisa Cooke Ravensbergen. In recent years, they have also supported emerging voices through partnerships with The Polygon Gallery and The Dance Centre BC, anchoring their projects in communal, collaborative laboratories for transformative exchange.
As an educator and joyful provocateur, Brandon has shared his practice with institutions including Modus Operandi, Richmond Academy of Dance, and Ballet Bloch, as well as through intensives such as Ballet BC’s 44 and masterclasses across the world.
An accredited audio engineer, Brandon also composes original soundscapes that explore the tactile choreography between sound, memory, and motion—most notably creating a dual sensory score (heard and felt) through experimentation with tactile technology such as SUBPAC. Most days, he’s juggling, composing, or improvising alongside Racheal—chasing wonder through small, everyday cues.
©David CooperBoard of Directors
