We plan to go ahead with the tonight's screening
(Sunday August 23, doors at 9:30pm,
screening at 10pm).
There are some clouds gathering but we have tarps to keep you dry.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Friday, August 7, 2009
Screenings
From Here to There (and back again): A traveling dance
…a new dance on video by Aimée Dawn Robinson…
and
Nuages
…a beautiful film by Victoria Cheong …
Saturday August 22
3:00pm
and
9:00pm
HUB 14
14 Markham Street, Toronto
and
Sunday, August 23
Doors open at 9:30pm
Screening at 10pm
25 Marion Street, Toronto
(in the backyard -- enter through alley on the West side of the building)
All screenings are 5 dollars
or
PWYC
Refreshments will be available by donation.
Half of all admission proceeds will be donated to
Nature Conservancy Canada.
The creation of From Here to There was generously supported by the
Ontario Arts Council, Media Section.
ABOUT THE WORKS:
From Here to There (and back again): A traveling dance is an episodic, durational dance performance, an experimental dance video and a travelogue. To create this new dance on video, improvising dancer Aimée Dawn Robinson drove solo from Toronto to St. John’s -- dancing en route.
As she drove eastward across the country, Aimée danced both inside and outside her vehicle, in motels, ferries, outdoor locations and cabins. Using only in-camera editing Aimée has created an experimental video of these improvisations in chronological order along the way, first to last, Toronto to St. John’s, and back to Toronto again. The work was screened at its’ halfway point (of completion) in the Festival of New Dance (St.John’s). Final screenings of the work will take place in Toronto on August 22nd and 23rd.
By venturing out into the world with her body, a camera and a vehicle with the task of traveling about 5, 974 km, Aimée experimented with the collision of artwork with daily life, with travel, with solitude, with self-documentation and with the challenges and joys of dancing in unusual, confined and vast spaces.
Rain or shine -- on the road, off the road, alongside the road.
1 hour. 2009.
Fireworks/ Nuages is a video that is relaxing to watch. It is not really about anything but Victoria would like to dedicate it to a love of leisure and to all hidden phenomena that reveal themselves in the darkness. 4 min. 2006. with song by Django Reinhardt
ARTISTS’ BIOS:
Aimée Dawn Robinson is an improvising dancer, musician, gardener, writer and visual artist. She has performed, studied and taught dance in Canada, the United States, Malaysia and Japan. With Barbara Lindenberg, Aimée co-founded Up Darling Contemporary Dance, and is the director of the multi-disciplinary performance series, A Month of Sundays.
Aimée has performed with improvising musicians, songwriters and composers including Martin Arnold, Jennifer Castle, Eric Chenaux, Nick Fraser, Kurt Newman, The Reveries and Doug Tielli. While she has danced with, and for, choreographers such as Terrill Maguire, Viv Moore, Ame Henderson, Motaz Kabbani and Seika Boye, Aimée most often improvises solo as mother drift. She has been performing installments of her ongoing dance series, mother drift dances to the songs in her head, since 2003. Recently, she performed with Small Wooden Shoe in Dedicated to the Revolutions.
Aimée holds her Master’s of Arts from the Department of Dance, York University. Her current research explores the radical political potentials of body, cultural and personal memory and forgetting in dance, specifically in experimental improvising, butoh and Canadian Aboriginal dance.
Aimée has participated in butoh workshops with artists such as Yoshito Ohno, Yukio Waguri and SU-EN. She spent the summer of 2008 in Hakushu (Japan) farming and studying dance on Body Weather Farm, with her hero, Min Tanaka.
Victoria Cheong
Since receiving a degree in fine arts from Ryerson University's film school, Victoria Cheong has experimented, created and collaborated in film, video, installation and performance. Her recent work includes a VHS music video for Toronto musician, Gentleman Reg, a short film, Nocturne for the Fireflies, funded by the Ontario Arts Council, and a video-dance integration (with dancer, Allison Peacock) presented at Judson Church in New York City. Victoria is also part of the free noise project HeavyWater, providing visual accompaniment to music created by Wolfgang Nessel. Victoria lives and works in Toronto, Canada.http://www.victoriacheong.com/
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