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Festival of New Dance 2013
October 8, 2013 - October 12, 2013
FND 2013
Tuesday October 8 – LSPU HALL
George Stamos: Liklik Pik (55 min. duet with Dany Desjardins and George Stamos)
Neither narrative nor abstract Liklik Pik follows a surrealistic logic of its own, playfully evoking the pig as a totem animal. Examining distinctions and similarities between humans and other animals is a long-lived human interest. At times serious and at times light, with Liklik Pik, Stamos explores his interest in this topic while utilizing a variety of media. It is a cross media performance extravaganza where the medium is but a fraction of the message. These guys are pigs. OPENING NIGHT PERFORMANCE followed by a reception sponsored by DanceNL
Wednesday October 9
COFFEE HOUSE CHAT with 11am George Stamos
WORKSHOP, 1-3pm with George Stamos
LSPU HALL, 8pm
Curtain Riser: ‘Let’s Dance’ Happy Valley-Goose Bay; Chain Link Again (choreogrpher Jacinte Armstrong)
Sarah Joy Stoker + Boyd Chubbs: Electric City (8 mins.)
A collaboration between composer Boyd Chubbs and contemporary dance artist Sarah Joy Stoker, the guitar piece is a travel log in three temperaments: First, Across the Straits to a new land – looking back at home; Second, Traversing the new land, absorbing its wonders; Third, Arrival at a second home, which gains permanence. With contributions from Boyd, Sarah developed a dance vocabulary and composed this piece with a tangible sense of travel, of movement, leaving somewhere you love and fearfully, excitedly arriving somewhere unknown.
Amber Funk Barton: Hero & Heroine (30 min. duet with Amber Funk Barton and Josh Martin)
Falling in and out of sleep, a man and woman find themselves in a surreal landscape battling unknown forces…sometimes alone, other times together, but mostly with the unsaid between them. This intimate duet, balances raw energy and precise physicality with the sensitivity of touch as the performers, working as both allies and enemies investigate each other and the space that surrounds them. Hero & Heroine accepts the obvious yet challenges the emotional and physical dynamics of a relationship between a man and woman, eventually leading them to discover that their actions, whether as a regular human being or the alter ego of their dreams, has consequences. POST SHOW TALK
Thursday October 10th
COFFEE HOUSE CHAT 11 am S Stoker, B Chubbs and A Barton
WORKSHOP 9 am Sasha Ivanochko at MAX Studio
WORKSHOP 1-4pm Amber Funk Barton at MAX Studio
LSPU HALL 8pm
Maya M Carroll: Magic Valley (60 min. with The Instrument dance company: Roy Carroll, Sarah Marguier and Maya M Carroll)
Views of an imaginary civilization, three figures in a journey of attachment and survival against the backdrop of a world destroyed. An evolutionary study of an “instrument” within which develops a language of unique and magical quality. Reflecting on primal existence, the birth of culture and violence, Magic Valley mirrors human’s gift of imagination. Detailed movement, sound and video installation illustrate the power of images, the delicate balance between beauty and danger and the connection we seek in our circle of life and death. POST SHOW TALK
Friday October 11th
COFFEE HOUSE CHAT 11 am Maya M Carroll
WORKSHOP 1-3pm Maya M Carroll at MAX Studio
ROCKET ROOM 6:30pm
Sasha Ivanochko: Trio for Musician, Dancer and Double Bass (30 mins.)
Making use of improvisational and open-ended compositional elements, Trio challenges and destabilizes the traditional accompanist/accompanied relationship of dancer/musician and instead creates a dynamic, continuously evolving cross-disciplinary dialogue. A kinetic, living hybrid form emerges as both partners contribute equally in the generating and development of the piece.
LSPU HALL 8pm
Curtain Riser,
Catherine Wright: Cow One, Cow Two (20 mins)
intermission
Virginie Brunelle: Complexe des genres
(68 mins. with 6 dancers: Isabelle Arcand, Luc Bouchard-Boissonneault, Sophie Breton, Claudine Hebert, Simon-Xavier Lefebvre, Frederic Tavernini)
Man/Woman. Overwhelmed by their fears, the dancers smash against each other. A poetic reflection of the human psyche, Complexe des genres speaks of the quest of identity through relationships. The piece illustrates the terrifying doubt and frigidity of the obsessive desire for perfection. Endowed with virtuous thought, men and women will know how to evolve, how to value and love each other. POST SHOW TALK
Saturday October 12th
COFFEE HOUSE CHAT 11am Catherine Wright, V Brunelle
ROCKET ROOM 2pm Sasha Ivanochko: Trio for Musician, Dancer and Double Bass (30 mins.)
LSPU HALL 8pm
Tina Fushell: Waving is Funny (20 min. trio with Molly Johnson, Luke Garwood and Tina Fushell)
Waving is Funny is a work based on the simple idea that Fushell thinks the action of waving is funny. By definition a wave is a movement of the hand that people use to greet each other or say goodbye. There are many different scenarios to why people wave. There are waves that differentiate between genders and there is also the play on the word “wave” – sound, ocean, brain… Just to demonstrate, they will be acting out as many different waving scenarios as possible veering away from the literal and playing with the more abstract and obscure.
Liz Solo: Dance Me (20 min. solo)
Using projection as a metaphor, Dance Me, a new choreographed performance developed through months of improvisation and play with media, props and movement, is a hybrid-reality work, exploring the merging of multiple identities in a quest to unite the real and the virtual self.
Intermission
Manuel Roque: RAW- me (40 min. solo)
It starts with an obvious desire to slow down…
After three years spent performing all over the world, Manuel Roque decided to unpack his suitcase and ask some crucial questions about the organic rhythms of life, as well as the importance and meaning of the present moment. A lonely solo for a performer at the crossroads, RAW-me deliberately plays with notions of fictional autobiography and finds it’s meaning from the primitive need for creative, artistic and human integrity. This work evokes one’s first journey inside, where new landscapes emerge and collide and in which the act of crossing a desert can turn into a storm.
CLOSING PARTY at THE SHIP – 10pm MORTIFIED (the end)
Jenn Goodwin + Camilla Singh (45 mins. duet)
Conceptually, MORTIFIED is a band that uses tap dancing, drumming and cheerleading as its instruments. With references such as heavy metal music, military drumming and formations, choreographic approaches to the drum kits and the sonic possibilities of pom poms, these new experimental collaborators will create a brand new set list of songs for FND 2013.
DJs Cara+Adrian
CLOSING Night party sponsored by Johnny Ruth
Sunday October 13th
COFFEE HOUSE CHAT 11am Manuel Roque, Jenn Goodwin, Camilla Singh, Liz Solo + Sasha Ivanochko
23rd Festival of New Dance Animateur – Louise Moyes
Post Show Talks will take place after each main stage performance (except opening and closing nights). These are opportunities to discuss with the choreographer and dancers, what you just saw. Ask questions and have engaging dialogues about the variety of pieces offered during the festival.
Coffee House Chats will take place the day after the main stage performance in a local coffee shop. The purpose is to offer an alternative environment for dialogue with the artists and their contribution to the overall festival. We recognize that sometimes not all audience members are ready to respond to a work directly following a show, and being in the theatre can create a formality that isn’t always conducive to candid conversation. The purpose of the Coffee House Chats is to give audience members a chance to think about what they saw, to think about how they felt and enter into a more in-depth conversation following a period of reflection.