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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 4, 2002
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princess productions presents
I SAW
the second production in the series dance : made in canada/fait au canada
an evening of two solo works from Marie-Josée Chartier and Kathleen
Rea
A Danceworks Co-Works series event
Choreographer/dancer/dynamo Yvonne Ng and
her company princess productions are proud to present I SAW,
the second production in the dance: made in canada/fait au canada
series. The evening features two of Toronto’s most gifted, well-cherished
and super-groovy contemporary dance artists: Marie-Josée
Chartier performing MATA HARI TERBENAM
choreographed especially for her by Peter Chin; and Kathleen
Rea performing her new solo flux inspired by
the desire to surpass physical limitations. I SAW opens
Thursday October 31 and runs to November
2, 8 pm nightly at Dancemakers Studio, 927 Dupont
Street.
MATA HARI TERBENAM (eye of the day drowning)
performed by Marie-Josée Chartier
TORONTO PREMIERE choreographer, composer, costume designer:
Peter Chin. The fascinating, effervescent and multi-talented
Marie-Josée Chartier, winner of this year’s
2002 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Choreography (fifty-one
pieces of silver), is an inexhaustible and multi-talented artist.
She has created over twenty works that have been presented at Canadian
festivals such as Canada Dance Works Festival, Dancing on the Edge and
Dance New Horizons and internationally at Impuls Tanz in Vienna, la Ménagerie
de Verre in Paris, The Substation in Singapore and P.S.122 in New York
among others.
Chartier’s own fascination with the human figure led to a collaboration
with another Canadian dance luminary, Peter Chin, who
choreographed Mata Hari Terbenam (eye of the day drowning),
especially for Chartier. Mata Hari Terbenam
explores dance from a primal impulse and the mixture of the animal and
the human in us. This dance work, a solo with vocals performed live and
on tape by Chartier, evokes a world at dusk where the feelings of solitude
are heightened by the beauty of the world transformed by the passing of
day into night.
flux (please note this is a new title for Rea’s
piece) performed and choreographed by Kathleen Rea
WORLD PREMIERE costume designer: Kathleen Rea
lighting designer: Glenn Davidson
In her new solo work, flux, Kathleen Rea uses restriction of movement to distill the essence of her dancing and finds that, while restrictions are challenging, they offer the chance to find new discoveries. A girl dreams of flying, and if not flying, then at least being able to levitate. flux explores the desire to surpass physical limitations. It is inspired by the choreographer’s own physical limitations and her desire to transcend them. Rea’s artistic voice and choreography take the audience into a breathtaking journey into the human experience.
Choreographer, performer, teacher and radio host Kathleen Rea
is an honest, delicate mover and thinker who is emerging as a riveting
choreographic presence. Rea has danced with Ballet Jorgen, the National
Ballet Company of Canada and Tiroler Landestheatre in Austria. In 2000,
she formed REAson d’être productions, an organization that
umbrellas her various artistic endeavors. In the summer of 2002, Rea created
the sold-out hit and critically acclaimed Fleeting, that premiered
as a part of VIVID (a REAson D’être productions and
Chimera project co-productions). “Kathleen Rea is a dance smith
who likes to provoke.” (Paula Citron, July 2001 - Classical
96.3 F.M.). The genius of Rea’s work lies in her ability to
create tensions that sweep the audience into an intense personal experience
of dance.
princess productions presents
I SAW
Thursday, October 31 – Saturday, November 2, 2002, 8 pm
nightly
at Dancemakers Studio, 927 Dupont Street
$ 16 Adults ($12 for seniors, students and CADA members)
Box Office : 416-204-1082
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