Press Kit - Festival of New Dance

CELEBRATING 25 YEARS | 1990~2015
festival of new dance
Octo ber 6-1 0, 2015
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Neighbourhood Dance Works Celebrates
THE FESTIVAL OF NEW DANCE — 25 YEARS!
Neighbourhood Dance Works (NDW) was born of a large community of artists needing
space in which to develop and investigate their art and performance in 1981. NDW,
with many independent performance artists, worked tirelessly to become a catalyst
for experimentation, collaboration and performance, and a producer of contemporary
dance in Newfoundland & Labrador.
As interest in contemporary dance increased, Ann Anderson founded the Festival of
New Dance in 1990. Six artists were programmed in the inaugural year: Campagnie
Carole Bergeron (Montreal), Dulcinea Langfelder (Montreal), Jennifer Mascall
(Vancouver) and Lois Brown, Lisa Porter and Stephanie Squires of St. John’s. We are
thrilled that two of the original six performers are participating in the 25th anniversary
festival: Lois Brown and Lisa Porter.
photo: André Cornieller
photo: Frédéric Duchesne
photo: Wayne Eardley
Interested in performance, storytelling, film, issues of accessibility, or pure
entertainment? This festival promises a feast for your senses and your imagination.
In 25 years, we have presented more than 100 artists and cultivated a vibrant and
loyal audience and this year’s festival will not disappoint. The 2015 program features
performances by artists with us from festival inception, world-renowned performers,
established locals and Newfoundland expats who have made their mark abroad
in a celebration of Canadian dance. It is a microcosm of what is important on the
Canadian scene, new, returning and local. Performances explore the boundaries
between literature, multimedia, theatre, performance art, film and dance. This festival
promises to be a wonderful celebration of dance with main stage performances,
outdoor events, community collaborations, professional development opportunities
with Master Class instruction, artist talkbacks and networking.
Opening night, October 6, features FOU GLORIEUX performing So Blue, an intense,
rough, obsessive, and mysterious work set to Mercan Dede’s rhythmical, visceral
music. Physically, LOUISE LECAVALIER is an arresting composite of David Bowie and
Tilda Swinton and is, in the world of contemporary dance, as iconic as both. So Blue
marks her volcanic emergence as a choreographer. The first 30 minutes of So Blue,
its vibrant, swirling soundtrack composed by Turkish-born Montréaler Mercan Dede,
features Lecavalier in a perilous solo. Joined by Frédéric Tavernini for the second
half, their raw, shared energy reaches dizzying heights. “55 minutes of sustained and
spectacular physical virtuosity.” Theaterkompass.de
The intimate work by CORPUSCULE DANSE, Jamais Seule (Never Alone), was inspired
by the movement possibilities of quadriplegic dancer France Geoffroy. This piece is
autobiographical, focusing on the France’s desire to express herself in a constant back
and forth between past and and present. Jamais Seule is a modest and irreverent look
at another reality.
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Theatre-dance piece Performances May be Permanent by KATE STORY (with BILL
BRENNAN) navigates diverse territory: Glenn Gould, a dying mother, the nature of
memory, the inner workings of a brain hooked on music, and the redemptive power
of connection. Kate is a performer and writer, born and raised in Newfoundland now
living in Ontario. Bill is a renowned pianist, percussionist, composer and producer
who directs the Memorial University Jazz Ensemble and Gamelan Sagara Asih (the
Memorial University Gamelan Ensemble).
P R E SS R E L E AS E
(C O N T ' D)
Conceived and choreographed by LISA PORTER, Future Perfect is a meditation on
mortality performed by Local award-winning music and sound designer Lori Clarke and
dancer Andrea Tucker.
10 GATES DANCING INC.’s a facet (of FACETS) is a one-time only performance, created
and performed by TEDD ROBINSON, RILEY SIMS, and CHARLES QUEVILLON. A mash-up
of 10 Gates Dancing’s recent NAC co-production Facets, it stars 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”.
Conceived and directed by ANNE TROAKE to celebrate 25 years of the Festival of
New Dance, the 25/25/25 Dance Project promises a tour-de-force evening of guerrilla
art-making in the true spirit of Neighbourhood Dance Works. The practices of
choreography and performance are the focus, meeting our thirst for experimentation
and the experience of art making. 25 works will be created by 25 choreographers who
will be given 25 minutes each to create a work 25 seconds in length, all in front of a
live audience!
FUJIWARA DANCE INVENTIONS’ Eunoia is Denise Fujiwara’s adaptation of Christian
Bök’s award-winning and bestselling book of conceptual poetry of the same
name. Eunoia is a multimedia experience of dance, video, music and costume that
employs constraints in such inventive ways that it has resulted in a groundbreaking
performance lauded by audiences and critics alike. Fujiwara Inventions takes the
audience on a verbal, visual and visceral journey.
Auto-Fiction by HUMAN PLAYGROUND features three dancers and an automobile
— the performers walk, run, roll over, propel and fall on this car composing a
choreographic track between dance and urban acrobatics. Auto-Fiction is a descent
at full speed that explores the multiple relationships we maintain with our cars. This
performance is a co-presentation with the Arts and Culture Centre in St. John’s, NL.
This year’s exciting WORKSHOPS provide participants with an opportunity to learn
new tools for art making and dance making:
INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP OF INTEGRATED DANCE with CORPUSCULE DANSE
Join us for an introductory workshop of integrated dance, a field of inclusive
exploration of contemporary dance open to people with and without disabilities.
France Geoffroy (quadraplegic), professional dancer and artistic director of Corpuscule
Dance, and her partner Joannie Douville, a professional dancer and teacher, will direct
exploratory exercises using contact improvisation dance techniques. This workshop
will enable you to live a different dance experience and enrich and broaden your
horizons.
BUTOH VOICE WORKSHOP with DENISE FUJIWARA and GERRY TRENTHAM
This 3-day intensive workshop offers a unique opportunity for participants to immerse
themselves in a new discipline. It integrates the embodiment practices of the dancetheatre form of Butoh with the embodiment practices of Linklater-based voice and
speech as a means to increased creative potential, range and precision as performers
and performance creators.
BALANCING THINGS with TEDD ROBINSON
Tedd has been balancing things, on his head mostly, in performance since 1989. His
investigations have led to thoughts about functional movement in performance and
working the release of a quality performing that inhibits actually doing an activity on
stage like balancing a piece of fruit or a stick.
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T U E S DAY, O CTO B E R 6, 8 P M
LS P U Hall, 3 Vic tor i a S t reet
Fou Glorieux
S O B LU E
“An intoxicating marriage of performance
brilliance, ritual and feverish”
DANCE CURRENT, TORONTO
photo: Carl Lessard
Louise Lecavalier and her partner, Frédéric Tavernini,
risk all in this intense, rough, obsessive, and
mysterious work set to Mercan Dede’s rhythmical,
visceral music. As quick as thought, the body
dictates its laws and transgresses its limits. “I wanted
to allow the body to say everything it wants to say or
can surprise itself by revealing, without censoring
it, so that out of this profusion of spontaneous
movements, something true and beyond our control
emerges, something that exposes some of the states
of confusion, excesses, and contradictions we’re
made of — both the darkness that inhabits us and
the unbearable lightness of being and of the soul.”
(Louise Lecavalier)
LOUISE LECAVALIER worked with Édouard Lock and La La La Human Steps from 1981 to 1999, a period of
exceptional intensity punctuated by works that have since become mythical along with scintillating
collaborations (David Bowie, Frank Zappa)… Her extreme dance, filled with a fiery energy, caught the
imagination of a whole generation. Since that time, with her company, Fou Glorieux, Louise has continued to
explore, in solos and duets, the power and vulnerability of the body and the intensity of human struggles and
aspirations. During Louise Lecavalier’s career, her work has been honoured by prestigious awards in Canada,
Europe, and the U.S.
Conceived and choreographed by: Louise Lecavalier
Created and performed by: Louise Lecavalier, Frédéric Tavernini
Assistant Choreographer and Rehearsal Director: France Bruyère
Lighting Design: Alain Lortie
Music: Mercan Dede
Additional Music: Normand-Pierre Bilodeau, Daft Punk, Meiko Kaji
Remixing Producer: Normand-Pierre Bilodeau
Costume Design: Yso
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Kate Story
with Bill Brennan
W E D N E S DAY, O CTO B E R 7, 8 P M
LS P U Hall, 3 Vic to r i a S t reet
P E R FO R M A N C E S M Y B E P E R M A N E N T
photo: Wayne Eardley
Performances May Be Permanent is a theatre-dance tour across wide-ranging territory: Glenn Gould, a dying
mother, the nature of memory, the inner workings of a brain hooked on music, and the redemptive power of
connection.
KATE STORY is a performer and writer, born and raised in Newfoundland and now living in Ontario. She is this
year's recipient of the Ontario Arts Foundation's K.M. Hunter Award in Theatre.
BILL BRENNAN’S expertise as a pianist, percussionist, composer and producer can be heard on some 100 albums
to date. His album Solo Piano 2 won the MusicNL Instrumental album of the year in 2008, and he was named the
Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council Artist of the Year for 2006. He directs the Memorial University Jazz
Ensemble and Gamelan Sagara Asih (the Memorial University Gamelan Ensemble).
Choreographer and Writer: Kate Story
Performers: Kate Story and Bill Brennan
Director: Ker Wells
Lighting Designer and Rehearsal Director: Ryan Kerr
Music: J. S. Bach, Alice Story
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W E D N E S DAY, O CTO B E R 7, 8 P M
LS P U Hall, 3 Vic to r i a S t reet
Corpuscule
Danse
JA M A I S S E U L E ( N E V E R A LO N E )
photo: Frédéric Duchesne
Jamais Seule (Never Alone) is an intimate work inspired by the particular movement possibilities of
quadriplegic dancer France Geoffroy. Created in collaboration with France Geoffroy, Sophie Michaud
and video maker L E M M, this autobiographical piece focuses on the artist’s desire to express herself in a
constant back and forth between past and present. As her dance limitations and possibilities are exposed, at
the crossroads of sensitive and striking gestures and poetic and revealing images, Jamais Seule is a modest
and irreverent look at another reality.
Artistic Director and Co-creator FRANCE GEOFFROY completed a college degree in arts, in 1997, while studying
the Bartenieff technique and improvisation with Valerie Dean. She also took workshops at CandoCo in London.
In 2000, she founded Corpuscule Danse. France has danced for Harold Rhéaume, Johanne Madore, Hélène
Langevin, Chantal Lamirande and Estelle Clareton, amongst others.
Artistic Director and Co-creator: France Geoffroy
Co-creators: Sophie Michaud, L E M M (Martin Lemieux)
Dancers: France Geoffroy, Joannie Douville
Sound music composer: Éric Forget
Video: Martin Lemieux
Lighting: Lee Anholt
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THURSDAY, O CTO BE R 8, 8P M
LS P U Hall, 3 Vic tor i a S t reet
Lisa Porter
F U T U R E P E R F ECT
Conceived and choreographed by Lisa Porter,
Future Perfect is a meditation on mortality
performed by Lori Clarke and Andrea Tucker.
photo: Lisa Porter
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.
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THURSDAY, O CTO BE R 8, 8P M
LS P U Hall, 3 Vic tor i a S t reet
10 Gates
Dancing Inc.
A FAC E T (O F FAC E TS )
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 onetime-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”.
photo: Rod MacIvor
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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F R IDAY, O CTO BE R 9, 8P M
LS P U Hall, 3 Vic to r i a S t reet
Anne Troake
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photo: Christopher Darlington
25/25/25 takes guerrilla art-making to the Main Stage. 25 works will be created by 25 choreographers
who are given 25 minutes each to create a work that 25 seconds in length, all in front of a live audience.
Conceived and directed by Anne Troake to celebrate 25 years of the Festival of New Dance, 25/25/25 follows
her exploration of multi-vocal performance creation.
ANNE TROAKE is a multi-disciplinary artist from Twillingate, Newfoundland. Her practice has its roots in
choreography and dance but often utilizes other forms. Troake’s short film Pretty Big Dig won The CGI Jury
Prize at Montreal's Festival International du Film sur L'Art. Her work has been shown at The Canada Dance
Festival, the Soho 20 Gallery (NYC), Artist's Television Access (San Francisco), the Lincoln Center's Dance on
Camera Festival, the Kennedy Center, and the Goethe Institute. In 2005, Troake completed her ethnographic
documentary My Ancestors Were Rogues and Murderers for the National Film Board of Canada, which
garnered rave reviews by the public and press across Canada and launched Ms. Troake into research and
exploration of the human body’s relationship to nature as manifested in physicality, morality and beliefs.
Her stereoscopic dance film OutSideIn which features Carol Prieur of the Marie Couinard Company and
Bill Coleman of Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie has been selected to represent Newfoundland at the 2015
Venice Biennale. She recently completed a Masters degree in Anthropology at Memorial University.
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Fujiwara
Dance Inventions
SATUR DAY, O CTO BER 1 0, 8P M
LS P U Hall, 3 Vic tor i a S t reet
EUNOIA
“Denise Fujiwara's Eunoia one of the best dance
events of the season. Clever, witty, engrossing.”
PAULA CITRON, DANCE CRITIC, THE GLOBE & MAIL
photo: Jeremy Mimnagh
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.
Sound Designer: Phil Strong
Designer/Director: Justin Stephenson
Lighting / Technical Director: Roelof Peter Snippe
Choreographer: Gerry Trentham
Dancers: Sylvie Bouchard, Claudia Moore, Lucy Rupert, Miko Sobreira, Rebecca Hope Terry
Stage Manager: Marianna Rosato
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PRE SENTED BY ARTS AND CULTURE CENTRE
& NEIGHB ORHOOD DANCE WORKS
O CTO BER 8-9
A RTS & CULT URE CENT RE
Human Playground
AU TO - F I CT I O N
photo: Sandra Lynn Bélanger
Auto-Fiction is a work for three dancers, one car and some concrete. Created by dancer/choreographer Milan
Gervais, the work explores our love-hate relationship with cars as the dancers jump, run, slid and generally
propel themselves on over and through the car from trunk to hood and back. Auto-Fiction takes us on a roadtrip through traffic jams, travel stories, road-rage and car crashes, bypassing the drive through and heading
straight into the urban landscape of the city.
WORKSHOPS
Choreographic workshops combining parkour techniques with dance sequences from Human Playground as
well as structured improvisations surrounding the artistic themes are explored.
Dancers from Human Playground will lead this workshop at the ACC Dance Space on Saturday, October 10,
time to be determined.
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Off Site Artists
W I ND OW DA NCI NG at J OH NNY RUTH
+ L I VI N G P L ANE T
DAT E S A N D T I M E S T B D
NDW loves to showcase young talent, capturing the
colourful, lively and theatrical spirit of youth — stop by
JR+LP to catch vibrant performances on a busy city street.
photo: Jill Wilcott
CLOS IN G PA RT Y wi th T RI XXXI E
SATURDAY OCTOBER 10, 10PM
Tallulah Fucque, Scarlet O’Whora and Marilyn Monroe
Take-Out formed the performance punk band TrixXxie at
the Festival of New Dance Closing Party in the Fall of 2013.
They perform regularly in the city and are the founders
of TRIXXXIEFEST, a semi-annual celebration of women
performers. Stoked to be presenting at the Festival of New
Dance, TrixXxie have been polishing their schtick and will
be trying out a few new moves.
Performers: Liz Solo, Charlotte Reid, Jenny Naish
photo: Eugene Leger
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Lois Brown |
Festival Animateur
P OST S H OW TA L KS
POST SHOW TALKS take place 15 minutes after Main
Stage and Off-Site performances so that the audience
can have an intimate moment with the choreographer
and performers to talk about their experience of each
choreographic work.
The Festival Animateur guides these conversations,
generating a dialogue between dancer,
choreographer and the public. Talk or listen there is
so much to be gleaned from these short, informal
(and admission-free) sessions.
LOIS BROWN has been involved with the Festival
of New Dance from its inception in 1990. She is
past Artistic Animateur of RCA Theatre Company,
and an original member and past Curator of
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Neighbourhood Dance Works. In 2004 she was
one of five Canadian directors short-listed for the
Elinore & Lou Siminovitch Prize. The following year, The Canada Council for the Arts gave her The Victor Martyn
Lynch-Staunton Award for outstanding achievement in theatre by a mid-career Canadian artist. She has been
recognized for her contribution to the arts in Newfoundland and Labrador with an Artist Achievement Award.
Lois holds a Masters from Memorial University, where she has taught acting and directing. In 2006 she
established her own company—newfoudlandartistx (nax)—for research and experimentation in live art. From
2011 to 2014, Lois was dramaturg-in-residence at Playwrights Workshop Montreal. Last year she was presented
with the YWCA Women of Distinction award for her contribution to the lives of others on a provincial/national/
international scale.
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Workshops
THRO UGHO UT THE F E STIVA L W EEK
WITH SO M ETHING FO R EV ERYO N E!
BUTOH VOICE WORKSHOP with DENISE FUJIWARA & GERRY TRENTHAM
This 3-day intensive workshop runs from Tuesday, October 6 to Thursday, October 8!
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm, Arts & Culture Centre 3rd floor dance studio.
Registration required, space is limited. $75.00.
Participants will explore a new frontier of performance training. The program integrates the embodiment
practices of the dance-theatre form of Butoh with the embodiment practices of Linklater-based voice
and speech as a means to increased creative potential, range and precision as performers and
performance creators.
“As a theatre artist I find the Butoh Voice Intensive to be an excellent training ground for anyone
interested in integrating physicality and voice within performance.”
Alaine Hutton
“Denise and Gerry use imaginative, concrete exercises with clear underlying principles that allow
performers to access and articulate the most essential yet elusive aspect of performance: how do
you become compelling to watch and listen to as a performer?”
Lauren Gillis
CORPUSCULE DANSE INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP OF INTEGRATED DANCE
We invite you to join us in an introductory workshop of integrated dance, a field of inclusive exploration of
contemporary dance open to people with and without disabilities. With the help of directed exploratory exercises
using contact improvisation dance techniques, discover and explore as a group: your body language, your
creativity, and your ability to come into contact with various dance partners. This experience will demonstrate
that the encounter of physical limitations, the use of a mobility device and the harmony between able-bodied and
disabled people make for extraordinary opportunities to have a better understanding of the body in movement.
Basically, this workshop will enable you to live a different dance experience and enrich and broaden your horizons.
The workshop will be directed by France Geoffroy (quadraplegic), a professional dancer and artistic director of
Corpuscule Dance, along with her partner, Joannie Douville, a professional dancer and teacher for the company.
BALANCING THINGS with TEDD ROBINSON
Friday, October 9 at 1:00 pm: Tedd has been balancing things, on his head mostly, in performance since 1989.
His investigations have led to thoughts about functional movement in performance and working the release of a
quality performing that inhibits actually doing an activity on stage like balancing a piece of fruit or a stick.
• Basic performance/movement skills are an asset in this workshop.
• Participants should bring a grapefruit, not too ripe, to the workshop (but don't let that stop you from coming).
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Events
PRO F E SSIO NAL PR ACTICE S, PARTIE S an d M O RE
TECHNICAL RESIDENCY WITH LISA PORTER – the week prior to the festival at the LSPU Hall.
Neighbourhood Dance Works will be supporting local dance artist, Lisa Porter, through a technical residency
to develop her new works for the Festival of New Dance. This is a valuable part of a creative process, allowing
artists the opportunity to explore and realize the technical details of their work, in complement to the artistic
elements in the theatre itself. Artists have time in the theatre to think and move through things, allowing
technical details to emerge.
OPENING RECEPTION and announcement of the ROBERTA THOMAS LEGACY AWARD
This award was established by Robbie's family as a way to continue her infectious human spirit by supporting
development and presentation in the field of dance and dance collaboration. The Roberta Thomas Legacy
Award (RTLA) is awarded annually to a dance practitioner or an artist in any discipline collaborating with a dance
practitioner. Projects are funded up to $1000.00 and can be for ideation, professional development, or aspects of
creation or final production.
CURTAIN RISER performances are geared to local dance studios and provide short, but significant opportunities
to open our main stage productions. As a creation piece and after school project, Sara Coffin and Susanne Chui of
Mocean Dance choreographed Open to the Sky during the Labrador Creative Arts Festival 2014. The four dancers
performing this piece are Abigail Healey, Frankie Leonard, Emily Andrews and Danika Rogers.
DANCE COLLECTION DANSE PRESENTATIONS - dance historian Amy Bowring will provide lively presentations
on the following subjects:
• Demystifying Modern Dance: Illuminating the story behind the art form about the rise of modern dance
and its roots in Canada.
• Grassroots Archiving Workshop, a practical and accessible workshop that will help artists and the public
learn the basics of “home archiving”.
• Research gathered on patriotic performances from the First World War era
THE NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA (NFB) DANCE FILM SCREENING
On Saturday, October 10, the NFB will screen dance films at the LSPU Hall. Details to follow.
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