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| Performances in the 2011 Festival: |
| THEATRE PERFORMANCES |
| EDGE One EDGE Two EDGE Three EDGE Four EDGE Five EDGE Six QUIET Arkadi Zaides She's Gone Away Susanna Hood hum dansoundart Blindsight Alejandro De Leon Lost & Found The Place Between Donna Redlick Donna Redlick Dance Collision Karen Jamieson Karen Jamieson Dance It's about time: 60 Dances in 60 Minutes Michael Trent Dancemakers |
| SITE WORK |
| Aeriosa & Eagle Song
Dancers Central Branch Vancouver Public Library North Plaza of Library Square W. Georgia & Hastings Ashes on the Water (podplay) Raven Spirit Dance & Neworld Theatre CRAB/Portside Park *Departs from the Firehall Arts Centre Dancing on the Edge is Dancing in the Street Move it! & Carnival Band Street Dance Party Joe Ink/Joe Laughlin & Jacci Collins Firehall Arts Centre (Cordova & Gore) DUSK DANCES Karen Kaeja Throwdown Collective Kat Single-Dain and members of the Dusty Flowerpot Cabaret Queen Elizabeth Park (by the Duck Pond) EN: a raincity street dance Colleen Lanki TomoeArts Firehall Arts Centre Courtyard unlike taste Vanessa Goodman Victory Square (W. Hastings @ Cambie) |
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EDGE ONE
Firehall Arts Centre
Firehall Arts Centre
Allemande - Josh Beamish/MOVE: the company
Untitled - James Gnam/The Contingency Plan
Nosh and stammer - Laura Hicks (Friday July 8th)
Allemande
Josh Beamish
MOVE: the company
Vancouver, BC
Josh Beamish
MOVE: the company
Vancouver, BC
Choreographer
Josh Beamish
Performers
Lara Barclay
Josh Beamish
Reid Colton
Heather Dotto
Cai Glover
Crystal Wills
Josh Beamish
Performers
Lara Barclay
Josh Beamish
Reid Colton
Heather Dotto
Cai Glover
Crystal Wills
“Allemande”, a work for six dancers that exists as a physical deconstruction of a Bach Cello suite and the accompanying social dances of the Baroque era.
"The motion… is chiefly characterized by the passion or mood of sweet expectation. For there is something heartfelt, something longing and also gratifying, in this melody: clearly music on which hopes are built.” - Johann Mattheson (1739). Beamish's work is known for its preservation of a technical esthetic juxtaposed against complex series of isolations performed at hyper-speed. “One of the most gratifying evenings of dance presented on New York's downtown arts scene this season” - Lisa Jo Sagolla, Backstage
In just 6 short years, MOVE: the company has emerged as one of Western Canada’s most prolific dance companies. Founded in 2005 by current Artistic Director, Josh Beamish, the company has performed across North America at venues such as Montreal’s Tangente and Studio 303, NYC’s Joyce SoHo and San Francisco’s The Garage. At home, the company has recently been presented by the Made in BC: Dance On Tour Program, The VIDF, Dancing on the Edge and the Chutzpah Festival, among others. MOVE:the company recently received the distinction of a commission from the Canadian Embassy in Washington, DC, as well as the only choreographic residency ever awarded to a Western Canadian by the Djerassi Program in San Francisco, CA.
Josh Beamish, Artistic Director of MOVE: the company, began dancing under the direction of his mother Loretta Lachner in Edmonton, Alberta and continued his training in Kelowna, BC. Upon moving to Vancouver, Josh began his career as an assistant choreographer, and dancer for various feature films and television shows. Outside of MOVE: the company, his works have recently been performed by Toronto Dance Theatre, Halifax Dance, Ballet Kelowna, Dance Saskatchewan, the Universities of Alberta and Missouri, Ballet Jorgen, the Bellingham Repertory Company, the Victoria School of Contemporary Dance and Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance in Kansas City.
Untitled
James Gnam
The Contingency Plan
Vancouver, BC
Choreographer
James Gnam
Performers
Jane Osborne
Vanessa Goodman
This 30 minute duet is a commission choreographed by James Gnam for The Contingency Plan. This work was generously supported the British Columbia Arts Council and The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.
The Contingency Plan is a contemporary dance collective whose focus is to create and present work that is socially relevant and accessible. We wish to create a dialogue that allows society to examine the world around us and process it through the art of dance. The Contingency Plan is a collective of three contemporary dancers, Vanessa Goodman, Jane Osborne and Leigha Wald, who met while pursuing degrees in dance at Simon Fraser University.
James Gnam is the co-founder and artistic director of the plastic orchid factory. An award winning, Vancouver based, contemporary ballet company. the plastic orchid factory has been presented by The Vancouver International Dance Festival, Dancing on the Edge, The Dance Centre, The Chutzpah! Festival and Dances for a Small Stage. In 2009, James and his wife Natalie LeFebvre Gnam were honored for the work that they have done with the plastic orchid factory with the emerging artist Mayor's Arts Award for Dance. Currently, James is the artist in residence at The Dance Centre and the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts for the 2010/2011 season.
Nosh
and stammer
Laura Hicks
Vancouver, BC
Laura Hicks
Vancouver, BC
Choreographer
Laura Hicks
Performers
Anne Cooper
Caroline Farquhar
Laura Hicks
Rachael Wadham
“White shirt, black tie. The clock ticks and I am restless. Someone is laughing. Yearning, looking, and not finding. The crash of cutlery makes my blood boil. Everything is familiar but it all feels so foreign. Everything begins to feel like a performance – a dream I don’t want to be in, but it never ends.” – Laura Hicks.
Nosh brings together forays into combining sound, movement, and text. Looping sound effects with live improvisation, musician Rachael Wadham builds both foreboding and whimsical environments while Laura Hicks sets the stage for an Alice in the looking glass type journey into the fine details and hard edges found surfacing beneath that which appears uniform. Sometimes humorous and always unexpected, Nosh explores sincerity, hunger, and the search for meaning while minding the proper placement of salt and pepper. Nosh was created with the support of The Dance Centre Artist in residency program, the Canada Council for the Arts, EDAM Dance, 45 West, The Sunshine Coast Dance Society, and the Kettle of Fish Restaurant.
Forever curious and always moving, Laura Hicks places a hybrid sense of perspective on environments and relationships she finds perplexing – including her years waiting in the world of fine dining. Laura’s work has been shown at major venues throughout Vancouver as well as through artistic residencies in throughout BC. As an interpreter Laura has been inspired by her work with MACHiNENOiSY, Restless Productions, DanStaBat, The Liz Lerman Dance Exchange (MD), and Random Scream (BE). Laura is a recipient of the Holy Body Tattoo Award and has been supported as by the Canada Council for the Arts and the BC Arts Council since 2007. As of 2011, Laura has been working and performing in Toronto. http://laurahicks.wordpress.com
*Nosh will be performed as part of EDGE ONE on Friday July 8 and as part of EDGE TWO on Sunday July 10
EDGE ONE
Firehall Arts Centre
Friday July 8, 2011 @ 7pm (Laura Hicks, Josh Beamish, James Gnam)
Sunday July 10, 2011 @ 9pm (Josh Beamish, James Gnam)
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