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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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DUSK DANCES
featuring
The Carnival Band (Vancouver)
Baggage - Kat Single-Dain (Vancouver)
Frost Exploding Trees Moon - Michelle Olson/Raven Spritid Dance (Vancouver)
Eugene Walks With Grace - Karen Kaeja (Toronto)
BoxSet- Throwdown Collective (Toronto)
Ryan Egan (host) - (Toronto)
Queen Elizabeth Park
by the Duck Pond
featuring
The Carnival Band (Vancouver)
Baggage - Kat Single-Dain (Vancouver)
Frost Exploding Trees Moon - Michelle Olson/Raven Spritid Dance (Vancouver)
Eugene Walks With Grace - Karen Kaeja (Toronto)
BoxSet- Throwdown Collective (Toronto)
Ryan Egan (host) - (Toronto)
Queen Elizabeth Park
by the Duck Pond
Wednesday July 13, 2011 @ 7pm
Thursday July 14, 2011 @ 7pm
Friday July 15, 2011 @ 7pm
Saturday July 16, 2011 @ 7pm
Queen Elizabeth Park
(by the Duck Pond)
This event is FREE
Thursday July 14, 2011 @ 7pm
Friday July 15, 2011 @ 7pm
Saturday July 16, 2011 @ 7pm
Queen Elizabeth Park
(by the Duck Pond)
This event is FREE
Dusk Dances is an outdoor dance festival that brings an array of high
quality contemporary and traditional dance to public parks. As dusk descends, a
theatrical host ushers the audience - which invariably includes children, dog
walkers and local residents - to five eclectic dance pieces that unfold in
different areas of the park. Audiences are invited on a pay-what-you-can basis
to an innovative site-specific festival, which is not only an artistic event,
but a social and cultural one as well.
A dance created with four large wooden boxes, that provide a dynamic moving structure for three performers . Set to atmospheric, rhythmic music and dressed in overalls, the dancers begin with pedestrian gestures that, through the use of repetition, gradually progress to high paced, athletic and acrobatic movement. Woven together with a loose narrative and characterization the piece bursts with physicality.
Founders Zhenya Cerneacov, Mairéad Filgate and Brodie Stevenson formed Throwdown Collective in 2008. Recognizing a natural physical and personal chemistry Throwdown Collective was formed to create and perform new work.
Eugene Walks With Grace - Karen Kaeja
As they walk together through life, an extraordinarily ordinary couple intersect through life’s daily connects and disconnects, relating to and enamoured by each other’s peculiarities.
Celebrating a 20-year career in performance, choreography, education and dance on film, Karen Kaeja is Co-Artistic Director of Kaeja d’Dance. She is a 2009 Dora nominee for Outstanding Performance and has won performance awards from Moving Pictures, the Paul D. Fleck Fellowship as one of Canada’s innovative artists of excellence and nominations for the 10th Annual American Choreography Awards and the 2006 Banff World Television Awards. She has been in residencies, commissioned and presented by festivals and performance series in Sweden, Venezuela, India, Spain, Mexico, Portugal, England, the US, and across Canada including eight seasons at the Canada Dance Festival. Karen has had great fortune to perform the works of Claudia Moore, Peter Bingham, Kathleen Rea, Kei Takei, Holly Small, Tedd Robinson, Marie-Josée Chartier and Randy Glynn Dance Projects among others.
Baggage - Kat Single-Dain
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up” Pablo Picasso. I couldn’t have put it better, and of course it sounds more important coming from Picasso. This piece explores the state of presence and flow that we often witness through childsplay. It is a state that requires practice and perseverance and the consistent shedding of so-called ‘baggage’.
Kat Single-Dain recently wrote, directed and choreographed Hard Times Hit Parade, a theatrical extravaganza of dancing clowns set in a Depression era dance marathon. The feature film version of this month long sold out show involving 30 cast is currently in post production, and a touring of the live show will be happening in January 2012.
What makes Kat particularly unusual is her use of clowning exercises for dancers and that she choreographs through character. Kat teaches, directs, choreographs and performs in Vancouver, using clowning, contact improvisation, contemporary, tap and swing dance in various combinations.
Frost Exploding Trees Moon - Michelle Olson/Raven Spirit DanceThis solo piece follows the journey of a woman traveling her trap line. She finds a place to set up camp, builds her temporary home, and settles into the centre of her world of breathe and perception.
The piece is a moment score derived from the body positions and attitudes of Indigenous hunting cultures of the northern forests. The movement is close to the ground and does not impose upon the environment but rather seeks to disappear into the forests so to blend into the natural environment. This introversion creates a presence that is dynamic in its own way.
Choreographed and directed by Floyd Flavel and performed by Jeanette Kotowich, this new work is an investigation in Indigenous Performance Culture and methodologies. It is a work that is supported by Raven Spirit Dance.
Dusk Dances
Queen Elizabeth Park
(by the duck pond)
Wednesday July 13, 2011 @ 7pm
Thursday July 14, 2011 @ 7pm
Friday July 15, 2011 @ 7pm
Saturday July 16, 2011 @ 7pm
This event is FREE
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