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.
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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)