Festival of New Dance 2015 (Thursday’s Schedule)

Future Perfect

Conceived and choreographed by Lisa Porter, Future Perfect is a meditation on morality performed by Lori Clarke and Andrea Tucker.

LISA PORTER is a performer, writer and filmmaker from St. John’s. She has made a significant contribution to contemporary dance in St. John’s not only as an artist, but also as a curator with Neighbourhood Dance Works, where she served as chair from 2004-2006. She worked in the film industry for many years before turning her hand to screenwriting and directing. She won a Canadian Screenwriting Award for the dramatic television miniseries Above and Beyond and her short films have screened in Europe, Canada and the US.  She also makes a living with her voice, writing and performing Descriptive Video for film and television. Lisa holds a BA in English and an MPhil Humanities from Memorial University.

LORI CLARKE has been creating work for stage, screen and installation for more than 25 years. Her award winning music and sound design refers to multiple aesthetics from musique concrete to jazz to electronica. Lori’s spiritual care work is a contemplative, somatic approach, particularly helpful in grief and bereavement, with those healing from traumatic events and suffering from loss. Her approach is particularly helpful in grief and bereavement, with those healing from traumatic events and suffering from loss. Lori holds an MA Somatics from the California Institute of Integral Studies. Lori is currently doing an Interdisciplinary PhD at MUN – arts-based research exploring grief, ecology and emergence.

ANDREA TUCKER is a St. John’s-based dancer, improviser, teacher, and choreographer. A graduate of the School of the Toronto Dance Theatre, she has trained and worked with various local and international artists, including a variety of workshops and somatic intensives. As well as working with Lisa and Lori, she has been developing a docudance with choreographer/director Louise Moyes and fellow dancers Calla Lachance and Tammy MacLeod. Andrea has a BA in Linguistics and graduated with a Bachelors of Education in 2013. She is employed with the English School District. Her expertise and experience with contemporary dance has greatly influenced her pedagogical philosophy and work with children.

FACETS

Created and performed by Tedd Robinson, Riley Sims and Charles Quevillon, this 30 minute mash-up of 10 Gates Dancing’s recent NAC co-production Facets is being performed in its one-time-only configuration starring Riley Sims as the “guy in white underwear”, Charles Quevillon as “the musician” and Tedd Robinson making a guest appearance as “the guy with things on his head”.

Facets was premiered this year in May at the National Arts Centre and was a collaborative work of 7 creators influenced by the archives of Tedd Robinson with an original song score written and performed by Charles Quevillon. This version is a mash-up with newly added performance material. Young and old, odd and quirky, sad and sly, together at the same time lonely and not alone.

TEDD ROBINSON is best known for his idiosyncratic solo dance works, including the Chalmers Award winning Rokudo: six destinies in three steps. Robinson’s choreography juxtaposes spiritually controlled movement with unexpected moments of sly, subtle humour. He is winner of the 2014 Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts, a founding member of Projet bk, and an Associate Dance Artist of the National Arts Centre.

CHARLES QUEVILLON has developed a direct approach to musical expression through his electroacoustic and instrumental work, specializing in the composition of mixed music. It’s through his close collaboration with Tedd Robinson that he has discovered a passion for movement.

RILEY SIMS has danced in works by numerous choreographers including Tedd Robinson, Noam Gagnon, Melanie Demers, Michael Trent, Darryl Tracy and Andrew Turner and, for three seasons, was a company member of Ottawa Dance Directive. Sim’s founded his own contemporary dance company, Social Growl Dance, in 2012. In May 2015, he collaborated on Facets, a work by 10 Gates Dancing that re-imagined the repertoire of artistic director Tedd Robinson.

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$10 (tax + surcharge included) for Human Playground’s Auto Fiction

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