Artists: Josh Beamish / MOVE: the company (Vancouver)
Discipline: Dance
Dates: April 16th at 7 p.m. & 9 p.m.
Venue: Studio 303
Cost: $12 pre-sale, students, RQD, RAIQ / $15 regular

Having discovered this young choreographer/performer during the shared programme Faith in February 22nd 2010, Studio 303 is happy to welcome back Vancouver artist Josh Beamish for a residency and an evening of 2 showings on April 16th 2011. A determined entrepreneur, Beamish has founded MOVE: the company, a charitable contemporary dance organization which performed across North America, most notably at the Canadian Embassy in DC, the Joyce SoHo in NYC and at WORLD EXPO 2010 in Shanghai with Cirque du Soleil.

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Informance (Premiere, 35 minutes)
Choreography: Josh Beamish
Performance: Josh Beamish and Heather Dotto
Music: Beethoven and ABBA

Informance focuses on public hysteria in the outbreak of a virus,
probing the depths of how these viruses originate and the various ways in which we react to them. While navigating through airport security, cultural misunderstandings, WHO regulations, trade sanctions and pig farming tactics, we imagine a not so far off world where human communication and intimacy may cease to exist entirely.

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Tools for Cutting (35 minutes)
Choreography: Josh Beamish
Music: Max Richter
Dancers: Josh Beamish, Cai Glover, Kevin Tookey, Matthew Waldie
Premiere: Feb 4th, 2010 at the Chutzpah Festival, Vancouver, BC

Motivated by Beamish’s childhood growing up as a male dancer in a small-town hockey focused environment, this work examines the relationships between men and sporting equipment. With a focus on winter sports to coincide with the 2010 Olympic Games held in Vancouver, these tools exaggerate male power and promote a traditional masculine identity, while simultaneously uncovering unique layers of each of the four male performers.

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