Created and performed by Artistic Co-Director Josh Martin, Brimming is a solo investigating the body as a container: a rigid frame holding in and concealing its stored inner contents. The piece imagines the body as a hollow interior space continuously shaped and reshaped, filled and emptied, and inhabited through different states. A performer trapped inside his own form, the dance is a meeting of both the seen and unseen – the invisible contents that slosh up against the sides, pushing against the outer surface from beneath, and occasionally leaking under its pressure. Brimming explores this shape we are in, how it holds us, and what may eventually spill out when the walls begin to bend.
This is a hybrid presentation utilizing live-feed cameras in tandem with a live in-situ performance. In-person audiences will attend an intimate and immersive experience, roaming freely to explore different perspectives and proximity to the work as it unfolds. Live camera capture of the performance is projected into the space as additional vantage points, which will be simultaneously broadcast for online streaming viewers.
Led by artistic co-directors Lisa Mariko Gelley and Josh Martin, Company 605 is an arts organization based in Vancouver, on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded Indigenous territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. Producing various dance projects and performances through shared creative process, the artists place emphasis on rigorous choreographic propositions and movement invention, building physically demanding work that juxtaposes raw with precision, and highlights effort, risk and interconnection. 605 is an ongoing exchange between separate people, bodies and ideas, recognizing and celebrating the unique possibilities created in their attempt to co-exist. Valuing collaboration as an essential tool for new directions in dance, Company 605 continues to awaken a fresh and ever-evolving aesthetic, together building a highly athletic art form derived from the human experience.
Creation and Performance: Josh Martin
Creative Collaborators: Justine A. Chambers, Lisa Mariko Gelley & Maiko Yamamoto
Music: Ian William Craig & Matthew Tomkinson
Sound Design: Matthew Tomkinson
Lighting Design: James Proudfoot
Scenic Design: Josh Martin
Set Construction Coordination and Build: Paula Viitanen Aldazosa & Juan Carlos Aldazosa Bazúa
Video Direction / Stage Management: Jessica Han
Gimbal Operator: Daniel Loan
Video Switcher: Yasuhiro Okada
Company 605 Managing Producer: Francesca Piscopo (Eponymous)
Images by David Cooper
Duration: 50 minutes