Interplay 2019
online program
We wish to acknowledge that we are on the ancestral, traditional and unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. It is an honour and a privilege to be guests on their lands.
The Vain and Tragic Memoirs of the Once Revered Lady Viaduct
(a work in progress in several chapters)
created + performed by Sophie Maguire + Azaia Windwraith
other credits: Mes Béatitudes by Gérard Pesson as performed by Recherche Ensemble (2009); Assorted imagery and film by Azaia Windwraith, Walter Edwin Frost (1970) as held by the City of Vancouver, Vancouver BC Engineering Services (1969 - 1971), Samuel S Magoffin (1926-1927), Godfrey Reggio (1982)
How does large scale infrastructure affect, resemble and respond to the human body? Imitating forms of erect concrete highway supports, crying on the tarmac, finding one's self next to the cranes of the port, this work and its performers live amongst the non-human in an effort to find how we fit in.
Azaia's academic and artistic work has primarily focused on the relationship between language and the body, exploring the ways in which language shapes and informs lived experiences of trauma. Azaia's work further explores the body in space, the body as space, the body's relationship to objects, and the ways that objects can become bodies themselves.
Sophie's parallel practices of landscape architecture and performance are ever informing one another and at many times converg. Sophie is fascinated by how the fantastical nature of theater can unearth the realities and histories of the environments around us. Sophie works as a landscape project designer and as an adjunct professor of landscape architecture.
Thanks to Deanna and Moberly for creating the space for this opportunity.
Partnering, A Solo
created + performed by Alana Gerecke
With an interdisciplinary reach to their academic research and practices in dance and writing, in Partnering, A Solo, Alana works with an expanded notion of collaboration to consider how interpersonal and material encounters sediment in the body.
Alana's a dance artist, teacher, and scholar living and working on the unceded traditional territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh nations. She holds a PhD from SFU and has just completed a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship at York University. She is a former company member with EDAM Dance.
Thanks to Deanna Peters for supporting this work. An earlier phase of this work was supported by a residency with UNIT/PITT's An Exact Vertigo series; thank you to series curators Alexa Solveig Mardon and Brynn McNab. Thank you also to Ian Giesbrecht, for covering my shift on the home front so that I can present this work.
Catalina la O presenta: Ahora Conmigo
created by khattieq + Jenny Larson
performed by khattieq
other credits: costume design by Michelle Thorne, dramaturgy by Adrienne Dawes, sound design by Mark Stewart
JK JK explores the lives of female Puerto Rican legends Myrta Silva, Ruth Fernández and Lucecita Benítez. Punk rock aesthetics collide with dramatic love ballads to share a heartbreaking and humorous story of resilience and resistance.
khattieQ's a musician and performer from Puerto Rico. She has played as a professional musician with over twenty bands, notably touring as lead drummer for queer femme core band The Tuna Helpers. She was the creator of punk band BLXPLTN, and served as lead vocalist from 2013 to 2015.
Jenny's an interdisciplinary theatre artist. She is a director, devising artists, and performer. Credits include: From the Pig Pile by Sibyl Kempson, with the Rude Mechs. Guest by Courtesy, devised with Hannah Kenah, has played Fusebox Festival, SHE MAKES THEATER festival in Sofia, Bulgaria, and Brooklyn Yard.
Thank you to J.R. Top on guitar.
Intermission
This and that and everything in the middle
created by Luciana Fortes + Ghinwa Yassine
performed by Luciana Fortes
Working with objects that have travelled with them from their respective countries, Lebanon and Brazil, this auto-biographical performance investigates temporal, emotional and physical displacement.
Luciana, a native of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is a mover, performer, and clown. In her artistic practice, she explores alternate ways of being by pushing through the capacity of the body, using energy, space, play and humor as her allies.
Ghinwa, a native of Beirut, Lebanon, is an anti-disciplinary artist. Her work uses a variety of media including film, installation, performance, text and drawing. Using hybrid forms of storytelling, where story manifests as somatic experiencing, ritual and gesture, she explores the intersections of fact and fiction in autobiographical narrativity.
A big thanks to Xinyue Liu for documenting our process, and to Elke Dick, to providing her artistic lens and perspective.
Unlikely Armour
created + performed by Kerri Flannigan
Unlikely Armour is a queer exploration of embodiment and the conscious and unconscious histories we carry in our bodies. It touches on the hanky code, the history of the bikini, hydrotherapy, mythology and the first lesbian kiss on Star Trek.
Kerri's an interdisciplinary artist and educator currently based on Lekwungen and WSÁNEC Territories, who explores forms of experimental narrative and documentary, which frequently takes a collaborative form, working individually and collectively within a large group to create responses to ubiquitous themes. Family mythologies, coming-of-age confessions, queer experiences of place, and swimming and have all been subjects of recent works. Flannigan's work centers relational experiences of place, and is informed by the teachings of queer/trans methodologies and praxis. Flannigan has shown locally and internationally, receiving a Canada Arts Media Grant in 2017, a BC Arts Council Project Assistance Grant in 2017, the Best English Zine at the Expozine Awards (2011 and 2014).
Thank you to Claire Lyke, Oren Levine, Jenna Tenn-Yuk.
Post-Show Social
A very special thank you to our volunteers and other supporters: Hana Rutka, Carolina Bergonzoni, Stefan Smulovitz, Lara Abadir, Andrea Joy and Ahmed Khalil. We'd also like to express our gratitude to Oliver McTavish-Wisden at Moberly, as well as the Vancouver Park Board and Sunset Community Centre, for their support.
producer, curator, stage manager Deanna Peters/Mutable Subject
technical director Kage
videographer Yasu Okada
Venue Info
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.
