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Dancing on the Edge 2011
Performances in the 2011 Festival:
 
THEATRE PERFORMANCES
 
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EDGE TWO

Firehall Arts Centre
Sunday July 10, 2011 @ 7pm
Monday July 11, 2011 @ 9pm
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Highgate  - Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg/Tara Cheyenne Performance
Through the Waters - Noam Gagnon/Co.Vision Selective

Highgate
Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg
Tara Cheyenne Performance
Vancouver, BC

Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg
Choreographer
Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg


Performers
Alison Denham
Bevin Poole
Kim Tuson

Highgate is a morbid romp through Victorian funerary culture, jumping straight from the darkest part of Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg’s imagination. Reflecting personal and collective grief a band of figures captivate in this fascinating gothic feast of death, physical oddity, humour and horror. A group piece to be performed by 6 dancer-actors with site specific elements.

The work takes its title from Highgate Cemetery in London, England. Costuming by Alice Mansell, sound composition by Marc Stewart and lighting design by James Proudfoot. This trio is an excerpt of the full length piece which will premiere at The Cultch in fall 2012 with a cast of 6 performers, debuting the company’s first ensemble piece.

Tara Cheyenne Performance is devoted to the creation and dissemination of highly physical, character-driven solo works that uniquely blend movement and text. Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg’s artistic vision is to create works that speak to people on the levels of common human experience, our own comic-tragic behaviour, and our lives in movement, gesture and dream.

Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg is a Vancouver based performer, creator, dance-theatre educator, choreographer, and the Artistic Director of Tara Cheyenne Performance. Tara started dancing at age 3, attended ballet school, theatre school at the University of Calgary and attained a dance degree from Simon Fraser University. Tara has danced with some of Vancouver and Canada’s most exciting choreographers and worked as an actor in theatre and film. In 2000 Tara began developing her own dance-theatre creations with director Sophie Yendole and composer/husband Marc Stewart. Her solo creations (bANGER-The Power Hour, Nick & Juanita-Livin’ in my Dreams – both awarded People’s Choice at the Dancing on the Edge Festival) have been presented across Canada, in the US, Belgium and London, UK. Tara has been nominated for several Jessie Richardson Awards and an Ovation Award for her choreography in theatre.

Through the Waters
Noam Gagnon
Co. Vision Selective
Vancouver, BC

Meredith Kalaman

Choreographer
Noam Gagnon

Performer
Meredith Kalaman

Revealed through a series of borrowed gestures, charged by various contrasting states - these gestures become a series of trials and errors of emotional intents.

Noam Gagnon is the Artistic Director of Co. Vision Selective (www.visionselective.org) and the Director of Noam Gagnon's Wellness Center/Beyond Pilates Inc. (www.beyondpilates.ca). Since its inception in 2006, Co. Vision Selective has produced several works including The Vision Impure, which premiered at The Cultch (Vancouver) in 2007. For his solo performance in The Vision Impure Noam received the Isadora Award for Excellence in Performance. In 2009, the work was remounted for a Canadian tour with new commissions by Daniel Léveillé and Nigel Charnock. 10 Things You’ll Hate about Me, a collaboration with playwright and director James Fagan Tait, premiered at The Cultch in 2010.


Nosh and stammer 
Laura Hicks
Vancouver, BC
EDGE ONE - July 8, 2011 & EDGE TWO - July 10, 2011
Laura Hicks

Choreographer
Laura Hicks

Performers
Anne Cooper
Caroline Farquhar
Laura Hicks
Rachael Wadham

Laura Hicks will perform with EDGE ONE on Friday July 8 and as part of EDGE TWO on Sunday July 10.  For program details, pleaes see
 EDGE ONE

The Place Between
Donna Redlick
Donna Redlick Dance
Vancouver, BC
EDGE TWO - Monday July 11, 2011
Donna Redlick

Donna Redlick will perform on EDGE TWO on Monday July 11.  For program details, pleas see The Place Between



EDGE TWO
Firehall Arts Centre

Sunday July 10, 2011 @ 7pm
Monday July 11, 2011 @ 9pm


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