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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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EN: a raincity street dance
Colleen Lanki
TomoeArts
Vancouver, BC
Colleen Lanki
TomoeArts
Vancouver, BC
Thursday July 7,
2011 @ 9:30pm
Friday July 8, 2011 @ 9:30pm
Saturday July 9, 2011 @ 9:30pm
Friday July 8, 2011 @ 9:30pm
Saturday July 9, 2011 @ 9:30pm
Somewhere what matters matters,
the sky opens and the world is unique,
people come out and the neighbourhood
insinuates itself into the present and past.
For a moment it lasts.
For a moment we are common.
From Today After Rain by Brad Cran
EN: a raincity street dance is a site-specific performance reminiscent of a Japanese festival dance, but is ultimately a contemporary dance-theatre piece for Vancouver. “EN” means both “circle” and “fate” in Japanese, and the show explores a variety of human relationships: young children meeting, enemies at war, lovers separating, friends and family in celebration – all showing the cyclic nature of life and community.
The choreography uses elements of Japanese classical and folk dance, and draws on the dancers’ skills in martial arts, hip-hop, theatre, contemporary dance and butoh. The original music in composed by percussionist Eien Hunter-Ishikawa, and features taiko drums and shakuhachi flute.
EN: a raincity street dance features projected photographs of the people and places of the Downtown Eastside – the heart of Vancouver – commissioned from five award-winning Hope in Shadows community photographers. Portraits of community members are projected by hand-held projectors onto umbrellas held by the performers and images of places and things that signify the neighbourhood are projected onto the walls of the Firehall Courtyard, bringing the neighbourhood into the performance space.
EN: a raincity street dance brings together professional and community artists, links the traditional to the contemporary, and creates a strong connection to the performance’s location in the heart of “raincity” Vancouver. TomoeArts (pronounced toh-moh-ay) promotes and performs nihon buyoh (Japanese classical dance), and creates performances incorporating Japanese forms and aesthetics. We have produced traditional dances in parks, contemporary dance-theatre in art galleries, festival-dance inspired performance in rainy city streets, and kabuki dance concerts featuring master artists from Japan. www.tomoearts.org
Vancouver’s new TomoeArts uses a whirling mix of Japanese dance, music, and projected visuals to conjure the otherworldly. - The Georgia Straight
A production beyond the ordinary…and I am glad Vancouver has opened its doors to this rare opportunity - reviewVancouver
Colleen Lanki is the Artistic Director of TomoeArts. She has a BFA in Theatre Performance from York University and an MFA in Asian Theatre and Directing from the University of Hawaii. Colleen was based in Tokyo in from 1995 to 2001, where she studied nihon buyoh under master dancer FUJIMA Yûko (1938-2002), and in April 2001 became a natori taking the professional name Fujima Sayû. She now studies with Fujima Shôgo. She also studied noh (traditional Japanese theatre) under noh expert Richard EMMERT and noh master Ômura Sadamu. While in Tokyo, she also worked as a performer, director, choreographer and acting instructor. In 1996 she founded Kee Company a group dedicated to intercultural, collaborative performance, which produced shows and performance events in Japan, Hawaii, Australia and Canada. While in Hawaii, she directed Bloodline, an original collaborative multilingual performance, and The Lone Tusker, a South-Indian one-act play. She also co-translated and directed the English language premiere of KISARAGI Koharu's expressionistic play MORAL, which was published in the Fall 2004 issue of the Asian Theatre Journal. Colleen is a founding member of Theatre Nohgaku, an international group dedicated to the performance and teaching of noh theatre, and recently performed the lead role in their production of Crazy Jane (BTE -Pennsylvania). Other credits: The Komachi Variations (choreography/performance – Dance Centre and Theatre X, Tokyo), Gods, Demons and Yogis (performer - Shakti Dance, Vancouver and B.C. tour), The Eighth Land (movement director - Pi Theatre), Ten Nights of Dream (Dancing on the Edge & TomoeArts), Odori: The World of Kabuki Dance (TomoeArts).
For more: www.colleenlanki.com
Colleen Lanki is a choreographer who is not afraid of adventure. – The Peak
EN: a raincity street dance
Colleen Lanki
TomoeArts
Firehall Arts Centre (Courtyard)
Thursday July 7, 2011 @ 9:30pm
Friday July 8, 2011 @ 9:30pm
Saturday July 9, 2011 @ 9:30pm
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