Presented with The Dance Centre
The first group piece by the prolific Daina Ashbee, J’ai pleuré avec les chiens (TIME, CREATION, DESTRUCTION 2021) plunges into states of being with both sober and incisive precision. Far from any possible attempts at categorization or binary representation, the naked and gaping bodies pierced by chants attempt to come closer together, pile up in vanishing lines – before breaking apart. Connection then emerges, in poetics of deflagration and trance, while the sounds produced by the bodies generate movements, growls, yelps, cries, and calls. True flesh channels, the performers transmit myriads of stories, embodying a web of possibilities where everything can coexist. Because everything is transitory, fleeting, and forges a sensory experience where the sensitive configuration shapes a ritual of cohabitation and decompartmentalization. This work inspired by the density and complexity of human structure, explores its entrails, its thought processes, its energy and its life force.
Duration: 75 minutes
Location: Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie St, Vancouver, BC V6B 2G6
TICKETS
Wednesday & Thursday: $25 Adult and $20 Student/Senior/Arts Worker
Friday & Saturday: $35 Adult and $30 Student/Senior/Arts Worker
Wed, March 22 @ 8PM Thur, March 23 @ 8PM Fri, March 24 @ 8PM Sat, March 25 @ 8PM
Artistic Director and Choreographer: Daina Ashbee
Rehearsal Director: Gabriel Nieto
Performers: Audrey Sides, Celia Green, Elise Vanderborght, Imara Bosco, Sarah Flack, Benjamin Kamino, and Sh’vii Rosen
Mentor: Benoît LaChambre
Lighting Designer: Stephanie Van Sandt
Musical compilation: Sean MacPherson, Daina Ashbee, Gabriel Nieto
Audio text: Louise Hay
Text (Française) : Nayla Naoufal
CO-PRODUCTION PARTNERS
KVS Brussels Stadstheater, Festival TransAmériques – FTA, Agora de la danse, Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis (FR), BIT Teatergarasjen (NO), National Arts Centre, Centre de Création O Vertigo – CCOV, EMPAC / Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY
RESIDENCY PARTNERS
KVS Brussels Stadstheater, Harbourfront Centre (TO), Montpellier Danse (FR)
FUNDING PARTNER
Developed with support from the National Art Centre’s National Creation Fund, Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres de Québec
Presented with The Dance Centre
Photos by Johan Pijpops
Daina Ashbee
Artist, performer and choreographer based in Canada, known for her radical works at the edge of dance and performance. At the young age of 26, she had already won two awards for her choreographies. She was a double prizewinner at the Prix de la danse de Montréal, winning both the Prix du CALQ for Best Choreography of 2015-2016 for her choreographic installation When the Ice Melts, Will We Drink the Water?, and the Prix Découverte de la danse, presented by Agora de la danse and Tangente, for Unrelated (her first choreography). Daina was named by the prestigious German TANZ magazine as one of 30 promising artists for the year 2017 and named one of 25 to watch by the American publication, DANCE in 2018. In 2019, she won a New York Dance and Performance Award, Bessie, for Outstanding Choreographer. In 2020 Daina received a fellowship award from Springboard Danse Montreal. In 2021, at the age of 30, she had two separate Retrospectives of her performance artworks; one in Montpellier, France and the second in Montreal, Canada.
Recognized as one of the most promising young choreographers of the next generation, since 2015 her work has been presented over one-hundred times in 15 countries and over 33 different cities. Her work being presented in some of the most prestigious festivals (The Venice Biennale, Oktoberdans, the Munich Dance Biennale, Montpellier Danse) and on the stages of the world (Canada, France, Spain, Belgium, Norway, Finland, Greenland, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and Mexico).
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