Choreographer | Jennifer McLeish-Lewis
Name of piece | To Fetch a Pail of Water
Venue | Firehall Arts Centre
Through a jagged timeline, set to live classical music, we see a man and woman fighting for power and control. Physical feats of strength and surrender, action and passivity, challenge beliefs about gender. Is it sibling rivalry or war of the sexes? Jack drags, manipulates, stands on and uses Jill. Then the story repeats with Jill returning an inverse role reversal replication (or vice versa, based on a coin toss). Inspired by Tarantino's out-of-order narrative timelines and a childhood rhyme written in the 1800s, the work is both disturbing and compelling.
Choreographer: Jennifer McLeish Lewis in collaboration with James-Amzin Nahirnick
Jennifer is a dancer, choreographer, teacher and bodyworker. She’s been making professional performances since 2002. She’s grateful to live and work on these stolen lands of the First Nations people. Her next show, Art Market, will premiere in Victoria as part of SKAMpeed; an outdoor performance festival, July 11-13. Her work deals with themes of gender, relationships, love and loss. Her greatest hope is that audiences will have an emotional experience when viewing her work; to feel something. She believes that live art is a public ritual and a personal ceremony that can not be replaced and that witnessing live performance is critical to our continued humankind connection. Thank you for coming.
Performer: Sarah Hutton
Performer: Max Hanic
Lighting Designer: Jennifer McLeish-Lewis
Composer: Stefan Smulovitz
Award-winning technologist, composer, violist, and laptop artist Stefan Smulovitz has performed with leading improvisers around the world and created more than 50 live film scores. He is one of Canada’s most in demand composers for dance and is recognized for his groundbreaking interactive work with Radix Theatre. Kenaxis — Stefan’s game-changing music software — is used around the world and his Mad Scientist Machine LED light cueing system has opened new possibilities for global collaborations. Recently Stefan travelled to Bhutan to collect sounds and create a score for the award-winning documentary “Power of the River”. He currently teaches at Simon Fraser University and Capilano University.