Artists: Erin Flynn, Susanna Hood/hum dansoundart, Sasha Ivanochko/blackandblue dance projects
Discipline: Dance
Dates: November 20th at 7 p.m. & 9 p.m.
Venue: Studio 303
Cost: $12 pre-sale, students, RQD, RAIQ / $15 regular

An Off-Cinars evening with three exceptional dance voices from Montreal and Toronto.

Take a tour into the interior of ecstasy, violence, loneliness, love, decay, and transcendence told through the brutal physicality of three of Canada’s leading women creators that will leave you wanting more.

Watch interviews with artists & excerpts!

Video: Hoda Adra

The Joan of Arc Complex by Erin Flynn (excerpt)
In The Joan of Arc Complex, the body is a vehicle for reclaiming internal experience and transcending the white noise of this electronic age. The solo takes place in the eye of the hurricane, where time slows and a larger conception of reality crystallizes. It is not a piece about martyrdom, but inspired rather by Joan of Arc’s break from the conventions of her time in favor of a dialogue with inner voices.

Shudder by Susanna Hood (excerpt)
Shudder’s three characters radically extend the visual vocabulary of Francis Bacon’s canvasses, transfer them onto the stage, and channel their visceral and violent energy through a family conflict that evokes no less than some of the great Greek tragedies. Three twisted shapes, sliding in and out of one another, devouring and devoured, cast an unsettling portrait of a family in decay, its pigments violently peeled away and reapplied. A work of missed connections that evokes sensuality, brutality and loneliness. Theirs is a grotesquely beautiful and disarmingly intimate encounter.

The future memory heartbreak junction by Sasha Ivanochko (excerpt)
Performers : Sasha Ivanochko & Brendan Wyatt

Sensual and cinematic, this duet is a response to Ivanochko’s 2008 character driven self-solo, “The future memory heartbreak junction”. A contemporary analysis of archetypes surrounding fatal love, the ecstatic psyche of performer, and the pleasure/pain reflex, this work unflinchingly exposes the compulsive nature of the heart, the blind-siding effects of love, and the heartbreak of loyalty within loss. Dancing and singing through the surreal landscape of future memory, Ivanochko and Wyatt’s performances are hot, chemical and unabashedly beautiful. This is a dual portrait of Love- the stuff of life and the dark night of the soul.

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