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A dance artist lies on a dark stage. They are looking at the camera with their arms bent up. They are topless. A dance artist mid scream on a dark stage. Their dark long hair obscures their face and they are kneeling with their arms bent up. They are fully nude. A dance artist mid scream. Their dark long hair obscures their face. They are topless.
A dance artist lies on a dark stage. They are looking at the camera with their arms bent up. They are topless.
A dance artist mid scream on a dark stage. Their dark long hair obscures their face and they are kneeling with their arms bent up. They are fully nude.
A dance artist mid scream. Their dark long hair obscures their face. They are topless.

Performance | Global Dance Connections series

Daina Ashbee

We learned a lot at our own funeral

Daina Ashbee’s radical works sit at the edge of dance and performance. Still only in her early thirties, she has garnered major awards and critical acclaim, and her bold, utterly unique creations are shown all over the world. We learned a lot at our own funeral is a compelling new work which probes the notion of death. Enveloping the audience in a potent sense of ritual, it evokes a battle with the self: the dancer challenges gravity, resists the ground, overcomes precarious balances. Finally, only the echo of the body, of its strength and fragility, remains.

Post-show artist talkback February 7.

PROGRAM

  • Thursday - Saturday February 6-8, 2025 | 8pm

  • Scotiabank Dance Centre

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  • $37/$28 students & seniors (+ $1 facility fee)

  • 65 minutes

  • Includes full nudity; for ages 18+

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Artistic Direction & Choreography: Daina Ashbee
​Performer: Imara Bosco
Additional performers: TBA
​Rehearsal assistant: Gabriel Nieto
​Lighting Design: Vito Walter
Technical Direction: Louis-Charles Lousignan
​Production: Daina Ashbee
Management and Administration: New Works (Vancouver)
World premiere: July 3, 2024 Montpellier Danse, France

Co-Production Funders: Montpellier Danse (France), Usine-C (Montreal), Festival Saint-Sauveur, Crimson Coast Dance Society (Nanaimo), The Dance Centre (Vancouver)
Funded additionally by The Candance Network and Canada Council for the Arts
Residencies: Montpellier Danse

Photos by Patrice Mathieu (1, 2, 4) and Yvonne Chew (3)

Mandala Arts & Culture/Ron Sangha

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