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Make Room
Duration 8 minutes Premiered at Small Stages 21 August 6-7, 2009 at The Legion on the Drive Choreographed/Performed by David Raymond and Tiffany Tregarthen Music by Loscil Originally created for a very small stage, "Make Room" intimately shapes the shared inner and outer space between two people, simultaneously summoning what takes place in their little studio apartment and in the memories changing and growing between them. Make Room began as a research in partner work in a confined space, and has since been translated into a work for a full size stage. This piece completed a series of three duets in the company's repertoire. Objet Trouve Created during an artistic blind date, this visual artwork employs dance as the means to deliver a piece of sculpture into an animated metamorphosis of form and function. Through mutating characterization and personification, an object finds new purpose. This integration’s short creative timeline offered a spark towards future collaboration and created a new relationship with the visual artist who now gives valuable feedback and support of present projects and experimentation with textural design and structure. Mitosis, Move: The Company This work is a collection of moving images inspired by the performance theme word “cell” and is a commissioned work for a Move: the Company collaborative work. It was specifically directed for the contemporary dance work of Alison Denham and Josh Beamish, who's abstract creation explores the movement of mitosis. Three with Two Three with Two is a collage of collaborative efforts towards the creation of a goal, a relationship...a dance. Each with its own mirth and meaning, two fervent individuals present three movements that celebrate the enthusiasm and challenge of being partners in work, play and love. Cotes Flottantes, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal Inspired by a drawing of two women confined in a single dress and the music of Anouar Brahem, this work was chosen and created specifically for the Competition "seeking young Canadian choreographers with a unique talent and ballet sensibility". Created for three women and one male dancer, the ideas and images in Cottes Flottantes mimic a lucid Rococo dream where a man's search for feminine beauty within himself is sabotaged by a trio of elegant deformities. This commission also provided the opportunity to work closely with Les Grands Ballet’s costume and lighting designers and to receive mentorship from Artistic Director Mr. Gradimir Pankov. Juxtapositions Juxtapositions introduces two soloists invoking musically inspired alter egos based on inner animals and social secrets. With a hunger to experience contact, contiguity, and a state of being close together, their innovative courting results in mirth and meaning filled with interaction from an exotic land. Faux Pas Faux Pas is inspired by some unexpected social and cultural differences experienced during a 2 year residency in Antwerp, Belgium. Meditating on new manners and mannerisms, the comedic pas de six reveals the ill fate of six over-polite ladies. This piece is the result of a collaborative research and development residency facilitated by Irma Swynen Director of Antwerp International Dansstage and Dansstudio Arabesque. |