IMPULSE 2010

December 2 - 4 & 9 - 11, 2010

Oracle Parade

(December 2, 2010)

Choreography: Valerie Calam
Music: Paul Shepherd and Valerie Calam
Rehearsal Assistant: Brendan Jensen
Lighting Design: Gabriel Cropley
Costume Design: Cheryl Lalonde

Dancers
Chantal Baudouin, Olivia Citter, Helen Cox, Neesha de Souza, Richie Doyle, Jessie Garon, Amelia Iverson, Megumi Kokuba, Jolyane Langlois, Amanda LaRusic, Sarah Leuschen, Kristine Matthys, Turner Norman, Sarah Reid, Lara Roberts, Jarrett Siddall, Boris Vdovine, Jelena Vujičić, Natalie Westerbeek, Angela (Ya Qing) Zhou

I wanted to create a piece that incorporates all the dancers onstage all the time. I had a musical score that I was really attached to, and felt that it created a unique atmosphere. I was inspired by the idea of ritual within a family unit or small community.

I’d like to thank the dancers for their relentless energy and Brendan Jensen for his amazing mind.

– VC

What is What isn't

(December 2, 2010)

Choreography: Dancemakers, led by Robert Abubo, Steeve Paquet, and Michael Trent
Dramaturgy: Jacob Zimmer and Bonnie Kim
Performance Coaching: Lori Duncan and Kate Holden
Music: Joshua Van Tassel
Lighting Design: Gabriel Cropley
Costume Design: Cheryl Lalonde

Dancers
Joanie Audet, Alysha Cugini, Kala Fletcher, Ana Groppler, Andrew Hartley, Emma Kerson, Jane Alison McKinney, Toan Nguyen, Erica Oddleifson, Jillian Peever, Brandon Ramsey, Freya Sargent, Alisa Stupak, Juanita Suárez Téllez, Sam Xu

Moving between different ways of being. Of being in the body and being together. We started with different physical states and moved from there, curious about both the states themselves and the moments in between.

– MT

Undone Tragedies

(December 2, 2010)

Choreography and text: Sharon B. Moore
Music: Chopin, Nocturnes
Lighting Design: Gabriel Cropley
Costume Design: Cheryl Lalonde
Dancers: Robyn Breen, Nicole Carr, Amber d’Entremont, Claudine Dubé, Joey Eddy, Erika Ferreira, Juana María Galindo Torres, Mateo Galindo Torres, Christian Camilo Giraldo, Jessica Hall, Greg Harris, C. Alexander Harris-Mungo, Marie Lambin-Gagnon, Brittany LaRusic, Damian Norman, Marco Placencio, Kassi Scott, Ann Trépanier, Mathieu Trépanier, Brigitte Tsang, Kathia Wittenborn, Michelle Zimmerman

Blunders and crumbling ranks sometimes occur in areas of extreme action. Keeping operations straight and organized is a challenge in a turbulent world. Sometimes things fall apart, sometimes things need fixing, sometimes things need to change, and sometimes we just want to know where things are.

Thank you to the dancers for their creative contributions choreographically and their huge spirits which bring this work to life.

– SBM

CAVING BACK TOWARDS THE LIGHT

(December 2, 2010)

Choreography: Allison Cummings
Music: Steve Reich/remixed by Ken Iishi
Sound Editing: Christopher Stanton
Rehearsal Assistance: Peter Hessel
Lighting Design: Gabriel Cropley
Costume Design: Cheryl Lalonde

Dancers
Chantal Baudouin, Olivia Citter, Helen Cox, Neesha de Souza, Richie Doyle, Jessie Garon, Amelia Iverson, Megumi Kokuba, Jolyane Langlois, Amanda LaRusic, Sarah Leuschen, Kristine Matthys, Turner Norman, Sarah Reid, Lara Roberts, Jarrett Siddall, Boris Vdovine, Jelena Vujičić, Natalie Westerbeek, Angela (Ya Qing) Zhou

I am currently inspired by inevitable circumstances. This piece explores ideas and thoughts on individual pathways towards the same direction, relationships that may occur along the same direction, that create experience and autonomy but all end up moving together towards the same end, however each entity tries to hold on or let go.

– AC

Endangered Species

(1981)

Choreography: Danny Grossman
Music: Krysztof Penderecki, Threnody for the victims of Hiroshima
Original Costume and Set Design: Mary Kerr
Lighting Design: Gabriel Cropley after Nicholas Cernovitch
Rehearsal Direction: Eddie Kastrau

Dancers

• Jane Alison McKinney with Alysha Cugini, Kala Fletcher, Ana Groppler, Brandon Ramsey,
  Freya Sargent, Alisa Stupak, Juanita Suárez Téllez, Sam Xu
  (December 2, 3 & 10)
• Erica Oddleifson with Joanie Audet, Andrew Hartley, Emma Kerson, Toan Nguyen, Jillian Peever, Freya Sargent, Juanita Suárez Téllez, Sam Xu
  (December 4, 9 & 11)

Endangered Species, the anti-war depiction of the horrors of humanity, is explosively re-visited here 29 years after its premiere.

With imagery inspired by great works of social realism by Käthe Kollwitz, George Grosz, Francisco Goya’s Disasters of War, and horrendous images of the holocaust, this raw and brutally realistic work has been performed internationally in many countries where political violence is a way of life.

Set against Krysztof Penderecki’s riveting score, its emotional impact resonates to this day.

– DG