Albatross is a driving duet created through an international collaboration between Company 605 and Brussels-based artist German Jauregui, a long-time collaborator of Wim Vandekeybus / Ultima Vez.
“This physically grueling piece attempts to pull apart a single moment to dissect and experience its contents in expanded time. Like two parts of one’s self, in continuous motion and perpetual contact, two bodies inhabit a single person’s trajectory through a test of endurance. Faced with both a physical and psychological burden, the heavy weight that they must carry, the performers are forced to surrender to the circumstances of their interdependence. They simultaneously become each other’s obstruction and support to keep moving forward.”
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ABOUT German Jauregui (Guest Collaborator):
German Jauregui is a director, choreographer, dancer and pedagogue based in Brussels. In 1998 he joined the company Ultima Vez / Wim Vandekeybus and participated in the creations and the touring of the pieces: “In Spite of Wishing and Wanting” (1999), “Inasmuch as Life is borrowed” (2000), “What the Body Does Not Remember” (Revival of 2002), “Blush” (2002), “Sonic Boom” (2003), “Puur” (2005), “Spiegel” (2006), and in the dance films: “In Spite of Wishing and Wanting” (2002), “Blush” (2005), “Here After” (2007), and in the short-films: “The Last Words” (1999), “Inasmuch…” (2000). In 2014 and 2015 he performs in the tour of the piece “What the body does not remember” (revival 2014). From 2016 on he works as a choreographer assistance and rehearsal director of the revival of the piece “In spite of wishing and wanting” (2016). He works as movement assistance in the piece “Scratching the inner fields” (2001), “Mockumentary of a Contemporary Saviour” (2017), “Go figurate yourself” (2018), “Puur” (2018) revival for the Royal Swedish Ballet.
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 Direction: German Jauregui
Creative Collaborators and Performers: Josh Martin and Lisa Gelley
Other contributors within creation process: Hilary Maxwell, Hayden Fong and Jessica Wilkie
Lighting Design: James Proudfoot
Sound Design: Stefan Smulovitz
Gimbal Operator: Daniel Loan
Camera Operator: Tory Ip
Camera operator: Nick Short
Video Switcher: Yasuhiro Okada
Camera operator: Gabriel Raminhos
