INVOLVED
NOVEMBER 26th at 6 pm + NOVEMBER 27th 2011 at 4 pm @ Studio 303 (danse)
$15 reg. ($20 fair-trade/$12 pre-sale, RQD, RAIQ, students)
Andrew Tay and Sasha Kleinplatz (Wants&Needs danse) are back to Studio 303 to curate a night where the public becomes implicated in the performances!
Now in it’s 3rd edition, Involved features dance works which question the audience’s relationship to performance, pieces that involve audience participation, and choreographies which offer the spectator a unique way in which to watch dance. With Simon Portigal, Emma Waltraud Howes, Hannah Dorozio, Thierry Huard, Jody Hegel, Victoria Stanton and Adriana Disman.
ARTISTS’ BIOGRAPHIES
Wants&Needs danse is constantly seeking out innovative ways of presenting work outside of the traditional dance mould. The company has become known for their unique productions which take place in non-traditional dance spaces. Their wildly popular dance events Piss in the Pool, Short&Sweet and Involved have brought together the Montreal dance community and challenged choreographers to create work outside of their comfort zone. www.wantsandneeds.ca
After completing a visual art programm, Thierry Huard entered at LADMMI, from which he graduated in 2008. Since his professional debut, Thierry has been part of many projects and workshops before finally turning to creation. During his first year as a choreographer, he has received the third prize of the Ciné-danse contest at the Rendez-Vous du Cinéma Québécois and was also part of Danses Buissonnière: Classes at Tangente in October 2009. In 2010, he participated at Recommendation 63, organised by Normand Marcy, and was part of Short&Sweet and Piss in the Pool, both projects of Wants&Needs danse. In 2010, he presented fall/winter 2012 : The Goddess’return at Tangente and collaborated with Martin Bélanger for A-Maze. He was back at Tangente in 2011 for Testé et approuvé, for which he received the support of CALQ and Cirque du Soleil. He is a also a judge for Danses Buissonières event since 2010. www.huardetassocies.blogspot.com
Concerned with malleable boundaries, Emma Waltraud Howes works on process-based research projects to address issues of safety, visibility, and translation across borders. She incorporates gesture, soft sculpture, and video that result in live performance and interdisciplinary installations. Her cross-disciplinary projects are influenced by her professional experience as a dancer and visual artist. She currently lives and works in Berlin. www.emmawaltraudhowes.com/
Hannah Dorozio and Jody Hegel, co-creators under the title Ladybox, have been creating theatre influenced dance duets since 2007. Jody is 32, lives alone, and still doesn’t have a cat, though she’s become really good at caring for her plants. Hannah likes lots of different kinds of stuff.
Simon Portigal is a choreographer and dancer based in Montreal. Completing his studies at P. A. R. T . S. in Brussels, Belgium, Simon uses the body as a discursive medium. In addressing the contextualized body, a movement dialectic, he attempts to expose what lies on the periphery, between language and movement, and the space where phenomenological experience transcends the audience/performer divide. He has performed in Europe and Canada, most recently in the Batard Festival for Young Artists, in Brussels, Belgium.ernsinpatternsinpat.tumblr.com/
Adriana Disman is a Toronto-based performance artist. Disman’s work has been presented in the context of galleries, festivals, and public space interventions in Toronto, Montreal, Boston, and NYC. Most recently in Montreal, Disman’s solo, body-based performance work has been seen at Galerie Nowhere and SKOL artist-run centre. Performance artist, video-maker, and published writer, Victoria Stanton has presented actions, exhibitions, and videos in Canada, the U.S., Europe, Australia and Japan. Investing a performative presence within multiple spaces/times, her work investigates the ability (and the desire) to hold a space, to appropriate and disrupt the quotidian, to court risk & vulnerability. www.adrianadisman.com, www.bankofvictoria.com
Photo Credit: Kai Meyer
An Archive of Accident Gestures (2011) by Emma Waltraud Howes
