sirenscrossing

Carolyn Deby
London, England
Canadian Premiere

city:skinned

Originally commissioned by The Place in London, and named Best Première 2002 (critic’s choice) by Dance Europe magazine, UK-based company sirenscrossing now animate the streets, doorways and forgotten corners of Vancouver’s downtown eastside and beyond, with this unique performance event. Featuring five dancers, and with an audience capacity limited to just 20 people per show, city:skinned is more a lived experience than a watched performance. The significance of this work lies not only in the innovative nature of the audience experience, but also in the scale of the choreographic vision, encompassing great distances, extreme close-ups, and the entire city landscape.

The audience will be moving and consciously having to pay attention to instructions – as well as to the events going on around them. By taking a pan-urban view, the work invites reflection upon the very nature of the way that cities are constructed, and how we exist within them – taking choreographic language into the arena of movement between buildings, along roadways, linking neighbourhoods. It is performance that creates an archaeology operating in four dimensions – a psychogeographic, unguided tour in time and space.

Presented by Dancing on the Edge Festival in association with the Dance Centre.

July 6 - 15
6:30pm and 8:30pm nightly
Firehall Arts Centre