Multidisciplinary approaches to performance...
doors 7:30pm; post-show social 'til 12am
created + performed by Alexa Mardon
costume + set support Erika Mitsuhashi
In this solo work-in-progress, Alexa Mardon wonders what the container is for inhabiting both the event and the aftermath, about language and its failures. Learning to be two places at once is a curse the same as vibrating, but what if being here, feeling it, and i do become cellular shedding singular enough.
Alexa Solveig Mardon is a dance artist living and working on the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Alexa’s practice spans movement, writing, facilitation, and community action.
Thank you to the chorus of dance angels without whose support, logistical and spiritual, this work would not live: Brynn McNab, Lexi Vajda, Elissa Hanson, Erika Mitsuhashi, Francesca Frewer, Zahra Shahab, Daisy Thompson, Rianne Svelnis, Carolina Bergonzoni, Raha Behnam, Renee Sigouin, Simona Analte and Lee Su-Feh.
created by Carolina Bergonzoni + Joel Salaysay
performer Carolina Bergonzoni
voices Darby Steeves, Daniel Jeffery
In this work in progress, movie-writer and director Joel Salaysay and dance artist Carolina Bergonzoni explore how to see, perceive, hear and work differently.
Joel Salaysay is a Winnipeg-born filmmaker based out of Vancouver. He is the writer/director of numerous films, many of which have screened in festivals across North America. He is the winner of several awards, including The TIFF Top Ten award for Best Live Action Film, Best Fiction at The Montreal World Film Festival, and a 2015 Leo Award for Best Student Short. Other festivals include The Vancouver International Film Festival, The National Screen Institute of Canada’s Short Film Festival, and the L.A. Comedy Shorts and L.A. Comedy Festivals. In addition to his writing and directing credits, he currently works at DHX Studios as an editor of children’s animation.
Originally from Italy, Carolina Bergonzoni is privileged to be a dance artist and scholar based on the unceded Coast Salish territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. She holds a BA and an MA in Philosophy from the University of Bologna (2011 and 2013) and a Master’s of Arts in Contemporary Media Arts from Simon Fraser University (2015). She is a certified Community-Engaged Dance Educator; since 2011, she has been working toward building communities of movers and thinkers, with people from 0 to 99+ years old. Carolina was artist-in-residence and artist-in-community at the Roundhouse Arts and Community Centre and she taught on the faculty of Anvil Centre and Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. Carolina’s work has been presented as part of Festivals and Events including Vancouver Fringe Festival, Dance in Vancouver, BC Buds, and Dancing on The Edge. Carolina continues to perform, create, and spread her love form movement as an independent dance artist; she is currently working as Artistic Associate for the integrated dance company All Bodies Dance Project. Carolina strongly believes in the need to pair academic work with community engagement; she is volunteering on the Board of Raven Spirit Dance (Chair), Vines Art Festival (Secretary), F-O-R-M, and she is a core consultant for the interdisciplinary hub Voirelia.
Special thanks to Alejandra Miranda Caballero
created and performed by Ziyian Kwan
quoted text from The Mother Of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit
recorded sound: Dido’s Lament by Henry Purcell
live sound: A Farewell by Henry Purcell
The Odd Volume is the first chapter of Hoi Dim Sum (Open Small Heart), a new solo that dance artist Ziyian Kwan will create and perform over the next two years. In this first draft for Interplay, Ziyian explores how to unsilence that which was previously unsaid.
Ziyian Kwan has worked as a dance artist since 1988. She has performed close to 100 original creations on international stages. With her company Dumb Instrument Dance, Ziyian engages in a collage of activities: commissions, choreography, site-specific and unusual dance actions. "I am my heart’s dumb instrument", Denton Welch.
Ziyian gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council For The Arts and the Shadbolt Centre For The Arts. Huge thanks to Moberly Arts Centre and to Deanna Peters for producing a show that encourages agency and experimentation
created by Nathan Marsh, Yian Chen + Clara Chow
performed by Nathan Marsh, Yian Chen
song credit: Only the Lonely by Roy Orbison
Who are you? Why have you come? How did you find us? I suppose it doesn’t really matter, you’re here now. Come in, relax. Listen with us.
Nathan Marsh is a sound artist, educator and performer primarily concerned with the concept of embodied experience in sound. He emphasizes collaboration and physical involvement in the creation of his works, intending to draw people into the physicality of sound as a lived experience rather than a predominantly auditory phenomenon.
Yian Chen is an emerging dance artist born and raised in Taipei and based in Vancouver. She recently completed her BFA in Dance at Simon Fraser University. Yian is grateful to play and create on the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh Nations and debut her work in collaboration with Nathan and Clara.
Clara Chow is a thoughtful artist, collaborator, and performer whose passion for learning fuels her curiosity and creativity. Inspired by movement and the world around her, she actively pursues new collaborations and ideas to explore, believing that every encounter has its possibilities.
Special thank you to Samantha Presley for being an invaluable outside eye on our process.
conceived, directed & performed by Patrick Blenkarn
Donkeyskin (working title) is a work in progress performance conceived and directed by Patrick Blenkarn exploring political idealism, the obsolescence of manual labour and the history of donkeys.
Patrick Blenkarn is a director and mixed media artist in Vancouver, BC: READ MORE
created and performed by Brady Marks + Michelle Helene McKenzie
This performance by sound artist Michelle Helene McKenzie and media artist Brady Marks is an improvised collaboration that translates and processes live soundscapes to produce a visual display of abstract landscapes, revealing where the sound, visuals and code merge, collide and mesh.
Brady is also DJing after the shows "a little pocket rave in a lovely cozy velvet draped environment!".
Brady Marks is media artist working with sound, light and kinetics.
Michelle Helene Mackenzie is a writer and artist who works with sound, text and film.
A very special thank you to our volunteers and other supporters: Harmanie Taylor, Shion Carter, Stefan Smulovitz, Lara Abadir, Jennifer McLeish-Lewis, James Gnam/plastic orchid factory, Renee Sigouin, Justin Veuthey, Ahmed Khalil and Olivia Shaffer. We'd also like to express our gratitude to Oliver McTavish-Wisden and the rest of the Moberly staff for their support.
producer, curator, stage manager Deanna Peters
technical director Chris Hall
videographer Chris Randle
The Moberly Arts Centre is located in Moberly Park, 7646 Prince Albert St. Vancouver's only fieldhouse theatre!
The Moberly Studio Theatre, front entrance, washrooms and kitchen are wheelchair accessible, however there is no elevator, so the downstairs dressing rooms are not accessible.
There are two gender neutral washrooms.
Many of us require a scent reduced environment; we ask you to avoid wearing: perfumes, scented body products, scented hair products, essential oils.