Global Dance Connections 5-Show Subscription

GLOBAL DANCE CONNECTIONS SERIES SUBSCRIPTION 2022

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MAYDAY La Goddam Voie Lactée (The Goddamn Milky Way)
February 4-6, 2022 | 8pm

Montreal’s Mélanie Demers dives into the political and the poetic with audacious works which fuse dance, theatre, literature and music. La Goddam Voie Lactée is her response to the harshness of the world: a pagan mass, both celebration and challenge, inspired by the constant mourning that marks our current age. Five charismatic women deploy their bodies, voices and instruments in a series of visceral scenes full of raw physicality and emotion.

Presented with PuSh International Performing Arts Festival

Daina Ashbee J'ai pleuré avec les chiens (Time, Creation, Destruction)
March 9-12, 2022 | 8pm

Daina Ashbee’s latest work unfolds like a ritual celebration dedicated to the body. In a minimalist landscape driven by cycles of change, five dancers fluctuate between possibilities: from animal to human, mundane to spiritual, from pain and sorrow to ecstasy. Down on all fours, they experience the elation of a new harmony and equilibrium but soon are flipped upside down, eluding gravity, and portraying a resurgence of the power to act in a community.

This performance includes full nudity.

Presented with the Vancouver International Dance Festival

Dumb Instrument Dance Rebel Grace
May 12-14, 2022 | 8pm

An exciting world premiere from choreographer Ziyian Kwan, Rebel Grace explores the concept of rupture and repair as intrinsic actions within life’s many cycles. Tracing the lustre and poetry of imperfection, the work is driven by the creative prowess of an outstanding cast of dance artists including Kwan and collaborators Lisa Gelley and Andrea Nann. They explore the rhythm and rhyme of imagery, text and movement – in conversation with the innovative sounds of Taiko artist Kage and multi-instrumentalist Roxanne Nesbitt.

Presented through the Artist-in-Residence program

Radical System Art Figure Eights
May 26-28, 2022 | 8pm

Radical System Art’s Shay Kuebler and tap artist Danny Nielsen’s new collaboration, Figure Eights, is inspired by the golden age of tap and jazz, and especially the iconic 1959 ‘duelling drums’ piece of the title, by celebrated drummers Max Roach and Buddy Rich. Paying tribute to the artistic giants of the past and the magic of the classic duet format, Kuebler and Nielsen use their distinctive rhythm-charged style to mash together percussive and non-percussive forms – and through thrilling physicality, speed and musicality, find a uniquely contemporary voice.

Presented through the Artist-in-Residence program

Maria Nurmela and Ville Oinonen
The Days
June 24-25, 2022 | 8pm

The Days is a collaboration between the exceptional Finnish dancers Maria Nurmela and Ville Oinonen, and English choreographer Theo Clinkard. This intimate duet is constructed from a single physical concept that sustains and evolves throughout the work, and examines the complexities of coexistence. Caught in a loop of impassioned exchanges, the dancers trace a journey that echoes a lifetime shared, through sublimely nuanced physicality.

Presented in association with BC Movement Arts Society