Summer 2020
In collaboration with Annexe A
PROJECT // imaginationreality
What we imagine shapes our way of seeing things, just as our way of seeing things influences what we imagine.
In imaginationreality, dancers and spectators are invited to play specific roles by following parallel scores to be performed simultaneously. A combination of personal images embodied by the dancers and scores spoken by the audience, forms a pool of realities.
Katie Ward highlights the many details of a multitude of subjectivity in this choreography, which can be independently perceived and felt by performers and spectators.
This choreography is composed of a variety of aspects and fragments of reality that can be reconstructed in the viewer’s perception. The range of performative samples are embodied and felt pieces or things – things from each performer’s sense of self and from their bodily impulses and much, much more.
The dancers surrender to the present moment – creating a dreamlike environment; a fertile ground for discoveries and A-Ha! moments. imaginationreality offers, on a small scale, an imagination model from which one may reinvent one’s ways of seeing the world.
Katie Ward activated the capacity to imagination for this performance context by giving space to the multiple and divergent imagination processes of each collaborator.
Photo credit: Katie Ward
BIO // Montreal Dancer/Choreographer Katie Ward’s performance scores are works that index reality, setting conditions for disrupting the way we see it so that our relationship to it may be re-imagined. Katie is currently working on solo dance called Anything Whatsoever and a group piece called imaginationreality. Both works highlight performers’ subjectivity by accessing their own body archives. These are minimalist-maximalist pieces in which Katie makes a place for things of all kinds: whole things, parts of things, serious things, refined things, wild things… Past works include group works: Infinity Doughnut, Rock Steady, Human Synthesizer, and solo: Matière Grise.
Katie holds a Master of Theatre Practises from Artez University, in Arnhem Netherlands.
For this project, Katie worked with collaborator performers: Audrée Juteau, Kelly Keenan, Dany Desjardins and Nathan Yaffe. Ame Henderson worked as a dramaturge and Outside eye, Michael Feuerstack composed and mixes sound live, and Paul Chambers designed the lighting.