For this particular Series 8:08 workshop I decided to revisit one of the characters from my latest solo work Zetetica. I brought him back in to the studio with the intention to discover a new layer to his character. The movement vocabulary I have been working with comes from the same world in which he exists.
Most of the time when I begin a process I spend days improvising. I give myself tasks or a structure for improvisation, sometimes it’s a prop or a specific piece of music. Often I have a costume in mind and have started creating it before I enter the studio. This time I came to the studio with a 16 foot long branch from a birch tree. I have spent a fair amount of time at Tedd Robinson’s L.A. Barn in the past two years and this particular branch first appeared a short work I created while in residence two summers ago.
Once an artist begins a new creation period, some would argue that we are always creating, everything that we do and interact with feeds and informs the final work. The images the creator brings into the work stay or eventually become ghosts. The artist must decipher what images the audience will require in order to be invited into the work.
I have spent three hours a day for 10 days in the studio, immersed in the process and on Saturday night at 8:08 I will expose the next layer of the man from Zetetica. I hope you are curious enough now to come.
Choreographic Performance Workshop
Audience as Dramaturg
Saturday June 25th, 2011 - 8:08 pm
Robert Gill Theatre @ University of Toronto
214 College Street, 3rd floor
(St George St. entrance)
Tickets: $15 (advance: call 416-978-7986)
$20 (at the door)
Audience as Dramaturg
Saturday June 25th, 2011 - 8:08 pm
Robert Gill Theatre @ University of Toronto
214 College Street, 3rd floor
(St George St. entrance)
Tickets: $15 (advance: call 416-978-7986)
$20 (at the door)
As a partner to the SDHS Conference 2011: Dance Dramaturgy: Catalyst, Perspective, and Memory, Series 8:08 welcomes the notion of the audience functioning as a dramaturg. This performance features 4 choreographers who have shown promising work-in-progress this past season at Series 8:08. The artists selected for this performance regularly utilize the work of a dance dramaturg or outside eye. For this edition, our Resident Dance Dramaturg is veteran dance artist Susan Cash.
Featured works-in-progress:
- Guarded Spaces
Jennifer Dallas (Kemi Projects) - NO Vox (from The Depiction on Drifting Islands)
Marie France Forcier (Forcier Stageworks) - Locally Sourced Dances
Susan Lee & Tracey Norman (Lee and Norman Dance Projects) - HOMEbody
Shannon Litzenberger
Robert Gill Theatre is unfortunately not wheelchair accessible. If you require accommodation, please contact the Box Office 416-978-7986 to make appropriate arrangements.
For show information contact Tracey Norman at atc[at]series808.ca.
