About Janice
Born a Virgo in the year of the Dragon in the Philippine Islands, she immigrated to Canada with her parents and two brothers to grow up in Kitimat, British Columbia. Some of her favourite activities as a child were singing, dancing, playing “dress-up” and “pretend”, staging tea parties, learning gymnastics, ballet, swimming, ice-skating, playing flute, piano and going to Brownies and Girl Guides. In highschool her spare time was spent baking, sewing dresses, and establishing school and community groups such as the Mt. Elizabeth dance squad, and K.U.T.E (Kitimat Understanding The Environment). After graduating from Mount Elizabeth, she studied Arts and Humanities at the University of Victoria where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre. Research in her final year at UVic lead her to attend New York University where she earned her Masters of Arts in Drama Therapy. Following these seven and a half years of academic rigour, Janice travelled to Toronto, England, Rome, Frankfurt, Spain (walked the Camino de Santiago), and Taiwan (teaching English). Now based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Janice delights in travelling and exploring new and diverse environments.
Experience
Janice is an interdisciplinary artist, practitioner, facilitator & educational consultant. Janice has facilitated educational drama workshops for youth, adults and their service-providers in New York City, Vancouver & Victoria. She has over 12 years experience as a storyteller and learning facilitator. Her passion for connecting with people through creative play, artistic expression, and conversations is evident in her curiousity and dedication to furthering the field of applied creative arts. Janice’s other passions include: dance, film, writing, musical theatre, fashion design, teas, sustaining ecology, photography and pastries.
Teachers
Janice brings with her lessons learned from Master teachers such as Juliana Saxton, Lina de Guevara, David Smukler, Robert Landy, Marcel Marceau, Judith Koltai and the founder of Playback Theatre, Jonathan Fox. Her performance credits are with companies such as Puente Theatre, Kaleidoscope, Theatre Inconnu, Victoria Broadway Chorus, Victoria Shakespeare Society, and had a world premiere at the 2006 Victoria International Film Festival as the lead in the feature film, Aswang: Journey Into Myth, directed by Jordan Clark.