producer, curator, stage manager Deanna Peters
technical director Phil Birkby w/ Eileen Kage
DJ Calen Knauf
videographer Chris Randle
photographer Yvonne Chew
Multidisciplinary approaches to performance
created & performed by Robert Abubo
dramaturgy by William Yong
Robert Abubo is currently performing/touring with Louise Lecavalier in Milles Batailles/Battleground. Abubo danced with Dancemakers from 2008 to 2015 (2008-2014 with Artistic Director Micheal Trent). Abubo worked with Le Groupe Dance Lab from 1994 to 2006, under Artistic Director Peter Boneham. As an independent dance artist he has worked with Tedd Robinson, Louise Lecavalier, Sylvain Émard, Lynda Gaudreau, Shannon Cooney, Bill James, Luc Dunberry, Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers, Heidi Strauss, Kate Hilliard, Ame Henderson, Dana Gingras, Ben Kamino, Valerie Calam, and Kate Nankervis. Abubo’s own choreographic works have been presented by the Canada Dance Festival, Tangente, Dancer’s Studio West, Kaeja d'Dance, Dancemakers, Nuit Blanche (Toronto), Canasian festival, and the T.O. love-in. Abubo graduated from David Moroni’s class of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School's professional division.
thank you’s: Ben Kamino, Amelia Ehrhardt/Dancemakers, Walter/Amy/Alex Kubanek.
created & performed by Lara A. Abadir, Stefan Smulovitz, Catherine Falkner & Luis G. Canton
Lara Amelie Abadir (Belgium) is an interdisciplinary creator and performer whose work lands at the intersection between Performance (Contemporary Dance & Theatre), Film/Video and Sound Design. Lara's hybrid methodology seeks to create a sophisticated balance between dark comedy, the uncanny, yielding and challenging the conventional categorizations of voyeurism, empathy, identification and/or exploitation.
Composer, violist, and laptop artist Stefan Smulovitz has performed with improvisers globally and created more than 50 live film scores. He is one of Canada’s most in-demand composers for dance and theatre. Recently Stefan travelled to Bhutan to collect sounds to score the award-winning documentary Power of the River.
Catherine Falkner is an interdisciplinary performer who mashes together comedy, grotesque, vaudeville and stand-up. She discovers costumes, characters, space and set which feed back into her performances in amplifying loops, and seeks inspiration from magazines, clothing, household items, light sources, sound, vinyl records, as well as film and video.
Luis G Canton is a versatile dance/theatre artist born in Yucatan, trained by Christine Dakine (NYC), danced in the film Marriage (Pierce Brosnan) and professional dance companies in Mexico and Canada. He received a sash in 2015 (a Metis cultural honour). He recently created Casa Simplicity in his native Yucatan.
A special thanks from our team to Deanna Peters/Mutable Subject!
created & performed by Alex Mah
Alex Mah is a composer and interdisciplinary artist based in Vancouver. He is concerned with sound and the performing body – indeterminacy and vulnerability – and with scoring text – language and score interpretation. He regularly collaborates with dance and theatre artists, which informs his process as a composer. Alex holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Honours in Music from Simon Fraser University.
I would like to thank a few people who helped me (through the falsification and reappropriation of their ideas): Emmalena Fredriksson, Sarah Bild, Gabriella Solti, Peter Bingham and Kelly Keenan.
created & performed by Kelly McInnes & Roxanne Nesbitt
Kelly McInnes is a dance artist who creates her work, through a feminist lens, as a call to action. Her intention is to magnify, comment on and create dialogue around socio-political issues within our society. Acclimatized is inspired by ree-wahyld, a work Kelly created in 2015.
Trained as an architect and orchestral musician, Roxanne Nesbitt’s research and practice explore the connection between sound, site and motion. She utilizes design, sound and video to forge new relationships and reveal existing analogies. Roxanne looks forward to a residency designing architectural elements for the sounding body, in Berlin in the spring of 2017.
Thanks to Sophia Wolfe & Deanna Peters
created by Dave Biddle & Patrick Blenkarn
performed by Dave Biddle
Dave Biddle is 6'2", 210 lbs, right handed, size 12 feet, resting heart rate of 70 bpm, favourite season is winter, but it's only autumn now, October leaves like death’s fireworks—they make for a pretty descent into the tail end of rebirth, a cyclical attraction to the Eternal Return™.
Patrick Blenkarn, 5’8”, 160lbs, right handed, size 10 feet, resting heart rate varies depending on whether the moss is watching.
A very special thank you to our volunteers & other supporters: Alexa Mardon, Erika Mitsuhashi, Rianne Svelnis, Sierra Knight, Ahmed Khalil, Sonja Janousek, Amy Kubanek, Sophia Wolfe, Jenna Mazur, Catherine Murray, Ben Brown, Hana Rutka, Blake Worthey, Lexi Vajda, Vanessa Goodman, Jane Osborne.
producer, curator, stage manager Deanna Peters
technical director Phil Birkby w/ Eileen Kage
DJ Calen Knauf
videographer Chris Randle
photographer Yvonne Chew