Portals is a performance of movement, lighting and sound – in conversation and reaction to each other – inspired by the notion of travel through space, time and body. Collaborators Kaia Shukin (choreography), Celeste English (scenography/lighting) and Isak Enquist (sound) will show and discuss this current iteration of their work.
In 2020 the research for Portals began with the notion that travel through space and time was possible within our own bodies.
Veins as wormholes, galaxies in viscera, memories and sensation containing a multiverse.
The arrival, assembly, disintegration and diffusion of our brief state of being.
A way through grief, an act of wonder, a journey through the multiplicity of self.
Finding you again, scattered through the cosmos.
Artist talkback March 27
Supported through The Dance Centre’s DanceLab interdisciplinary research program.
Choreographer/Dancer: Kaia Shukin
Scenography/Lighting Design: Celeste English
Sound Design: Isak Enquist
Outside Eye/Mentor: Amber Barton
Text Read By (and cosmos consultant): Robert Shukin
Associate Lighting Designer: Za Hughes
Associate Sound Designer: Alesandra
Supported by and thank-you to: The Dance Centre, Ziyian Kwan and Morrow, Canada Council for the Arts, Eowynn Enquist, LEÑA Artist Residency and Chalk it Up!
Photos by Kaia Shukin