Welcome to the Friday Round-Up, a place for the Vancouver community of dancers and dance lovers to come together and share what is going on in the local dance community. In this new world in which we find ourselves, it is now more important than ever to find ways to connect and share all the many new and innovative ways in which we create, communicate and relate in the world of dance. So if you have something you would like to share with the Friday Round-Up, please send it to debora@dancehouse.ca. We look forward to hearing from you!
DanceHouse invites you to the first of the new online series Speaking of Dance: Future Memory, checking in with artists whose work has graced the DanceHouse stage in the past, we will hear from a range of perspectives and voices pondering the future while retracing their memories. On November 26, 11 am PST, join us in welcoming Jacob Boehme from Australia (Insite Arts), Sonia Destri Lie from Brazil (Companhia Urbana de Dança), Vanessa Goodman from Vancouver (Action at a Distance) and Hervé Koubi from France (Compagnie Hervé KOUBI). See you there!
There is still time (if you are up early to read this blog!) to catch the third and final portion of the Made in BC – Dance on Tour Arts in Site 2.0 Virtual Symposium Friday, November 20th, 10am-12pm PST / 1pm-3pm EST. Today’s conversation is titled Where It Takes Us – Sharing Moving Stories of Site, Memory, and Witnessing, and includes artists Alexa Mardon & Erika Mitsuhashi / MARDON + MITSUHASHI; Anya Saugstad; Kelly McInnes and Rianne Svelnis; Noemí Segarra Ramírez / PISO; Solène Bossu / Les Parleuses; Shana Wolfe; Melissa Riker / Kinesis. If you are interested in this event, email olivia@madeinbc.org and a Zoom link will be sent to you. For more info.
Some good news – the Shooting Gallery Performance Series is back with a fantastic online series! Featuring brand new digital works by adventurous interdisciplinary artists, the online presentations will include video screenings, interactive performance, livestream and an audio tour! Head to the online store to purchase your by-donation series pass. The week of the series, you will receive an email in your inbox each morning with links to the day’s artistic offerings! Featuring new performance by Deanna Peters, Mushtari Afroz, Stephanie Cyr and Kasha Konaka, among others. Curated by Maxine Chadburn.
November 23-30, New Works presents: Spirit and Tradition by Dancers of Damelahamid. Spirit and Tradition layers projected imagery, soundscape, and Coastal masked dance, immersing the audience into the rich and diverse ecosystem of British Columbia’s coastal mountains and Pacific Ocean. Spirit and Tradition’s key themes are reciprocity and ecological sustainability, conveying important cultural teachings on balance, interconnectedness, and community. A by-donation online performance for all ages, presented in partnership with The Dance Centre This pre-recorded performance will be available for viewing on the New Works website from Monday November 23 to Sunday November 30, tickets by donation. For more info
While the live tickets are sold out, on Wednesday Nov 26, 7pm you can still catch the Chutzpah! Festival‘s offering of Hourglass (World Premiere) by Idan Cohen. Hourglass is set to 4 Piano Études by acclaimed minimalist composer Philip Glass, one of the most important musical influences of the 20th/21st centuries. Glass’s work is celebrated for its ability to bend time, play with our perception of it, and break it apart. Drawing inspiration from this, Israeli choreographer and stage director Idan Cohen, Artistic Director of ‘Ne. Sans opera and dance’ fuses the past with the present to generate a movement that speaks of the most primal representation of time in our bodies: age and the process of aging. The work features a duet with former Ballet BC company dancer Racheal Prince & returning Ballet BC company dancer Brandon Lee Alley (Dance//Novelle), joined on stage by pianist and celebrated conductor Leslie Dala. For your online tix
