Showing posts with label Sunday February 11: Aimée Dawn Robinson. Show all posts
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Monday, March 22, 2010

SUNDAY APRIL 18: ADR, VICTORIA CHEONG


ADR in OKQuoi?! Festival, Sackville, NB, 2009
photo by E.Chenaux


ABOUT AIMEE'S PERFORMANCE


ADR will perform a solo, improvised dance to two songs in her head -- Crooked Jack (Dick Gaughan) and I Guess I’ve Come to Live Here in your Eyes (Willie Nelson).



video still from Remembrance, Victoria Cheong

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. She has worked as curator and organizer of events, Nuit Blanche Devereaux and the New Toronto Works Show. Victoria is also part of the free noise project Heavywater, providing visual accompaniment to sound created by Wolfgang Nessel.
www.victoriacheong.com

ABOUT VICTORIA'S PEICE

Remembrance is a series of vignettes about the living processes of memory: the unstable re-making and re-imagining of experiences and my inclination to document them. I have collected moments as souvenirs, the wind has moved them through my field of vision and then laid them to rest somewhere I can't see. I imagine that they are tucked away in that primal place where we keep the history of our joy and pain to recall it as it once was, forever.

Remembrance features music by Pocahaunted and was made with help and encouragement from Yuula Benivolski, Jennifer Castle, Lucas Cheong, Isla Craig, Jeff Garcia, Naomi Hocura, Guntar Kravis, Davida Nemeroff, Wolfgang Nessel, Jimmy Palferro, Jacob Sheen, Anna Silverstein, Zoja Smutny, Alex Tait and The Tranzac.

Tuesday, January 2, 2007

Sunday February 11: Aimée Dawn Robinson



ADR
Photo: John Lauener


ADR writes about her work for this performance:
One of two things will happen. I might show a version of a new group piece I am working on called The No-Mystery Project (which involves dancers interacting with a recorded instruction score) or I might perform the ninth installment in my ongoing improvisation series, mother drift dances to the songs on her head. In this series, I cover songs -- by reacting to/with the music in memory and by making a replication of the song, however filtered, altered and imperfect it becomes through performance. In this series to date, I have danced to songs by James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, Neil Young, Jennifer Castle and British Isles folk musicians Waterson:Carthy, Silly Sisters, Dick Gaughan and Nic Jones. This time I will hear a Carla Bley tune called Ida Lupino.