Festival of New Dance 2015 (Saturday’s Schedule)

Eunoia

“Denise Fujiwara’s Eunoia one of the best dance events of the season. Clever, witty, engrossing.”  Paula Citron, Dance Critic, the Globe & Mail

 Eunoia is Christian Bök’s award-winning and bestselling book of conceptual poetry. It is built on the notion of constraining language to one vowel per chapter and tells stories in ways that are as pleasurable as they are ingenious. Denise Fujiwara’s adaptation of the book is a multimedia experience of dance, video, music and costume that employs similar constraints in such inventive ways that it has resulted in a groundbreaking performance lauded by audiences and critics alike.

Eunoia takes the audience on a verbal, visual and visceral journey. The conceit of the poem is introduced through games and then builds in complexity with fanciful narratives and semiotic play. Eunoia means “beautiful thinking”, and that is just what happens when the audience’s imagination is triggered.

DENISE FUJIWARA is a choreographer and dancer whose solo dance concerts have garnered praise across Canada and toured to festivals in the United States, South America, Europe and Asia.  Recent forays into ensemble choreography include NO EXIT and large commissioned works for the Compania Nacional de Danza in Costa Rica and eXit ’11 in Germany.

CHRISTIAN BÖK is the author of Eunoia (Coach House Books, 2001)—a bestselling work of experimental literature, which has gone on to win the Griffin Poetry Prize. Bök is one of the earliest founders of Conceptual Literature (the poetic school of avant-garde writing made famous, in part, by the performance of its ringleader, Kenneth Goldsmith, at the White House in 2011). Bök teaches in the Department of English at the University of Calgary.

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Ticket Info:

$25 general + tax + surcharge ($31.25)
$15 students, seniors, and those with accessibility issues + tax + surcharge ($19.95)
$10 (tax + surcharge included) for Human Playground’s Auto Fiction

Note: To purchase accessibility tickets please call the Hall at 753-4531. Those who require special attendants should also note that as per the LSPU Hall’s general policy, attendants can accompany for free.

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• The Closing Party with TrixXxie will require a separate ticket. The location has yet to be determined.
• The Off Site performance with Human Playground requires a separate ticket.

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