Artists: Annabel Guérédrat (Martinique), Suzanne Miller & Allan Paivio Productions, Troy Emery Twigg (Kainai Nation), Geneviève Gagné/Emily Honegger, Ariane Dubé-Lavigne
Discipline: Dance
Date: January 22nd at 7 p.m. & 9 p.m.
Venue: Studio 303
Cost: $12 pre-sale, students, RQD, RAIQ / $15 regular

Imposing the circle as a choreographic imperative by putting the audience in the round, performers exposed on all sides, In the Round is an attempt to make the arena of the theatre relevant, vital.

An evening programmed by Lys Stevens.

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A Freak Show For Sarah Baartman, Part I by Annabel Guérédrat (15 minutes)
Presented in Canadian Premiere, this solo is from A Freak Show for Sarah Baartman, a series of performative acts in which Annabel Guérédrat uses her body as an “open totality”, in a tribute to the 18th century South African slave, also known as the Hottentot Venus.

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Colt 45 by Ariane Dubé-Lavigne (12 minutes)
Performers: Jeanne Dubé-Blanchet, Ariane Dubé-Lavigne

Bodies undone and redone, spinning and convulsing til motionless. We get a glimpse of all that kills, all that dies, and all that has spoken. And then, sometimes, bodies respond to their skins’ whispers, as if living could make one forget the sensation of cold metal on one’s temple.

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Foreign One by Floor Rider & Tonik (5 to 10 minutes)
Performers and co-creators: David Albert-Toth, Joe Danny Aurélien, Emily Honegger and Geneviève Gagné

This piece features four dancers who come together to share the same centre. In constant contact, they pile up, tie up and unloose to form a spherical mass that can be viewed from all sides. Together, they reach new possible states of weightlessness and new heights. A bubble of four becomes one.

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Iitahpoyii by Troy Emery Twigg (15 minutes)
Choreographer: Troy Emery Twigg in collaboration with dancer Justin Many Fingers
Performance: Justin Many Fingers

Vibrations are felt and transmitted in very ancient forms of communication from earth to universe and back again…from heart to soul through body and earth…it is all embraced energy, reformed and sent out again. Troy and Justin embark on a journey to rediscover knowledge that forms their identity as Blackfoot Peoples. Gathering stories from the land of Blackfoot territory, exploring the body and earth’s connection and the imprints made by ancestral forms to provide information. By feeling the vibrations of the feet and other body parts to earth’s surface in rhythm of the heart beat drum, various unveilings allow us to discover elements of an unsettling and settling nature.

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Updown (work-in-progress) by Suzanne Miller & Allan Paivio Productions (15 minutes)
Choreographer: Suzanne Miller in collaboration with dancer Karsten Kroll

In this excerpt, movement concentrates on gravity and on the kind of equal force demonstrated by wrestlers in-action. This work draws on the essential movements of the body – and extends them. Updown explores jumps and falls. In our dreams we can fly. As soon as we become aware, we fall and wake. This piece explores the ecstasy of leaping and soaring, as well as the inevitability and fulfillment of their worldly counterparts.

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