November 2009

NEW this Fall! GCDF Off-Site Series

PRESENTS

Canada’s oldest modern dance company,                Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers (WCD),       returns to the national touring scene by spending part of their 45th season ON THE ROAD.

ON THE ROAD highlights the beauty, versatility and strength of WCD's company dancers in a 90 minute mixed repertoire show. These performances will feature the work of WCD’s current Artistic Director, Brent Lott, along side works by WCD’s Founding Artistic Director, Rachel Browne, and Fredericton’s Lesandra Dodson (a former WCD company dancer and choreographer).

Tuesday November 17th | 7pm
Alma Gallery, 133 Wyndham Street                Downtown Guelph
Pay-what-you-can

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A brief description of each of the dances to be performed in ON THE ROAD

All STRUCK photos
©2008 Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers
and photographer Ryan Fennessy http://www.fennessy.ca/

As one of Rachel Browne's signature works and the oldest work on the program, 'Mouvement (1992) is a powerful solo that shows the choreographer’s scope of dramatic intensity. Inspired partially by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s self-portrait, “The Wounded Deer”, Browne delves into a fantastical world where the dancer portrays both the vulnerability and strength of a surrealistic, deer-woman'. (Holly Harris, Uptown, 2007)
Dancer: Kristin Haight

Edgelit confirms Rachel ‘Browne is an artist who has transcended all dance trends with a vision that is uncluttered, archetypal and authentic’. (Deirdre Kelly, The Globe and Mail, 2000)
Dancer: Lise McMillan

In Silence, by Fredericton's Lesandra Dodson, was created for WCD in 2002. This duet is an 'exploration of love and loss focalized through the bodies and voices of the dancers.  Text from Lord Byron's nineteenth-century romantic poem "When We Two Parted" permeates the piece and the spoken poetry is punctuated by a furious gestural vocabulary. The rawness of love and the blunt edge of loss are manifested through the performers' fragmented offerings of Byron's poem'. (The Dance Current, Lindsay Zier-Vogel)
Dancers: Johanna Riley, Sarah Roche

BOXSTRUCK is a reworking of Brent Lott’s first full length work for Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers. Originally titled STRUCK and described as a ‘piece of shimmering beauty’ (Paula Citron, The Globe and Mail), the quartet creates a world of memory that is continually reshaped by the expanse of time and the gathering of experience. Through shifting perspectives and altering viewpoints BOXSTRUCK confronts whose truth is being conveyed.
Original Music: Christine Fellows
Dancers: Johanna Riley, Sarah Roche, Kristin Haight, Lise McMillan

Between the Sycamore is a new work by Brent Lott that blurs the lines between sacred narrative and natural law. It is a bird’s-eye view in to a community of individuals organized by imagery drawn from Egyptian mythology and the lifecycle of the Scarab Beetle. Between the Sycamore is performed in this program as an excerpt of the full length version that will premiere in Winnipeg in May, 2010.
Dancers: Sarah Roche and Johanna Riley

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photographer Ryan Fennessy http://www.fennessy.ca/

Short blonde hair - Sarah Roche
Long dark hair - Johanna Riley
Short dark hair - Natasha Torres-Garner

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