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Performance | Discover Dance! series
Lamondance
Lamondance has earned a reputation as an exceptional contemporary dance training company designed for emerging artists about to embark on a professional performing career. Drawing talented dancers from across Canada and overseas, and commissioning bold and inventive choreography, Artistic Director Davi Rodrigues moulds ensembles of honed, expressive and fluent performers. This performance will feature How it ends, a work by Artistic Director Davi Rodrigues which explores the subject of addiction, and a new creation by the Indigenous Toronto-based choreographer Jera Wolfe, showcasing the talents of a new generation.
PROGRAM
One’s Own – World Premiere 2023
In this work, I wanted to explore what happens when people experience the same event and how they are affected by that event differently. I wanted the dancers to feel a sense of unity at the beginning and then slowly break off in variation. By the end of the work, they are left to reflect on what they have experienced through short solos, which are uniquely designed by each dancer. What matters is the interpretation of one’s experience.
Choreography by Jera Wolfe
Music: To find dawn into dusk by Gian Marco Castro / Don’t Go by Christopher Dennis Coleman / cold embrace by Gian Marco Castro / All Our Friends Are Vampires by A Winged / Victory for the Sullen, Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie, Dustin O’Halloran
Performers (Professional dance company): Lazaro Silva, Madizon Araiza, Nancy Li, Rosalie Caron
Apprentices: Dania Grant, Elena Himbeault, Grace Willock.
Rehearsal director: Nicolas Ventura
Lighting design: Brad Trenaman
How it ends – Originally created in 2018
ad·dic·tion
noun: addiction; plural noun: addictions
- the fact or condition of being addicted to a particular substance, thing, or activity.
Choreography by Davi Rodrigues
Music: Summer Pt. 3 (Vivaldi – The Four Seasons Recomposed) H.Q, MAX RICHTER: “Recomposed Vivaldi. Summer 2” Victor Pozas, Daniel Musy e Rafael Langoni
Performers (Lamondance Training Program): Arianna Savady, Benedict Quedenbaum, Brianna Lannard-Ghini, Claire Viitaniemi, Dania Grant, Daryk Richards, Elena Himbeault, Francesca Vergara, Melodie Lienhard, Nali Richards, Paris L., Payton Kennedy, Sydney Poulton.
Rehearsal directors: Margarida Macieira, Alexis Fletcher, Sylvain Senez
Lighting design: Brad Trenaman
Lamondance respectfully recognizes the support of the BC Arts Council, supported by the Province of British Columbia, Metro Vancouver and the Canada Arts Council. We are grateful for their support in creating One’s Own by Jera Wolfe.
Photo by Adrian Ortega
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