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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 FIVE
Firehall Arts Centre
Firehall Arts Centre
Nudity.Desire -
Benjamin Kamino/Do what you can
Barego - Rob Kitsos and Dancers
Barego - Rob Kitsos and Dancers
Nudity.Desire
Benjamin Kamino
Toronto, ON
Benjamin Kamino
Toronto, ON
Made/Performed by
Benjamin Kamino
Benjamin Kamino
Nudity (white). Absent of content.
“That this first knowledge is devoid of content can, in fact, mean that it is not the knowledge of something but rather the knowledge of pure knowability.â€
(Agamben. Nudities, page 81)
This restructuring of the idea of nudity was the beginning point for research. To have a body, absent of content, unable to speak or move or understand its presence in space became the performance. It brought about the question of representation; how can I represent something if I don’t yet know anything? So the research turned from the body, absent of content, to the learning body and its small fights for understanding.
Desire (brown). Absent of means.
“…objet petit a, as the object of fantasy, is that ‘something in me more than myself on [who’s] account of which I perceive myself’ as ‘worth of the Other’s desire’.
(Zizek. The Plague of Fantasies, page 9)
The construction of fantasy and its fluid integration into personal identity motivated by desire was the point of departure for this research. The idea of the ‘dispositif’ defined by Agamben and Deleuze became helpful to rethink desire as a mechanical process - one that could break down, rust, and potentially die. What affectations would this carry into the body or a performance? How will the body adapt to fill the void left when desire is cast out?
Do what you can (General Labour) is an artistic initiative started n Montreal in November 2009. Its formation is ambiguous as is it’s structure and goals. There is a website to which people propose projects, ask for help on projects and post documentation. http://dwycgl.blogspot.com/
Benjamin Kamino is an artist living and working between Toronto and Montreal. His work has been shown in Toronto, Montreal, Vienna, San Luise Potosi and Mexico City. He is a regular contributor to ‘do what you can’ and is one of its founders. He regularly guests with Compagnie Marie Chouinard, Dancemakers and Pigeons International. He holds a BFA in Dance from TISCH NYU, and was the 2009 recipient of the DanceWeb scholarsip.
Barego
Rob Kisos and Dancers
Vancouver, BC
Rob Kisos and Dancers
Vancouver, BC
Choreographer
Rob Kitsos and Dancers
Performers
Mark Arboleda
Leon Feizo-Gas
Alexis Fletcher
Rob Kitsos
What are we worth?
How does our confidence shift based on our environments, our choices-
how much we know- our earnings- our success in our work? When we walk
into the bar- we enter an arena of judgment- of desire and
intoxication, a place to feel connected and be seen, to prove
ourselves. These are the places that bring us together and pit us
against one another –places we go to be inspired or validated by
others, or even to test our limits of invincibility. Our daydreams of
control and success, of dominance and vulnerability- a celebration of
us all played out at the bar. Performed by Ballet BC dancers Leon
Feizo-Gas, Alexis Fletcher and SFU’s Rob Kitsos. Rob Kitsos and Dancers
Performers
Mark Arboleda
Leon Feizo-Gas
Alexis Fletcher
Rob Kitsos
Rob Kitsos is an acclaimed dancer, dance instructor, performing artist, musician, and choreographer who has performed across North America, Europe and Asia. He has performed his own and other works at international festivals including the Spoletto Festival in Charleston South Carolina, the World Expo in Lisbon, the Grec Festival in Barcelona, the Palais Royale in Paris, and others in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands, Hong Kong and Venezuela. He has been commissioned by artists and companies in Hong Kong, Seattle and Vancouver including Bard on the Beach and the BC Ballet. Rob has been a member of more than fifteen performing companies including the Doug Elkins Dance Company, Gina Gibney Dance, Hillary Easton, Jannis Brenner, KT Niehoff, Colin Connor, Pat Graney, the Chamber Dance Company, Peter Bingham and the Berkshire Ballet.
EDGE FIVE
Firehall Arts Centre
Wednesday July 13, 2011 @ 9pm
Saturday July 16, 2011 @ 2pm
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