2008 Festival Programme
Programme A
Thursday May 1 at 7:00 p.m. and Friday May 2 at 9:00 p.m.
Tribal Crackling Wind
Mind's Hammer
Award winning "renaissance man" Peter Chin combines dance and video with live music by the Evergreen Contemporary Gamelan Club.
inDANCE
UMA
A solo, accompanied by live music, that explores the eroticism and sensuality of the devadasi temple dancers of south India through the medium of stri-vesham (female impersonation). Due to popular demand a return engagement from our 2006 Transformations Festival.
"…a feeling that one has happened upon a clandestine ceremony, something slightly wicked and forbidden." - Dance Current Magazine.
Programme B
Thursday May 1 at 9:00 p.m. and Saturday May 3 at 7:00 p.m.
Wen Wei Dance
One Man's…
Vancouvers Wen Wei combines movement, film, storytelling and music.
"One of the most gifted choreographers of the next generation … a magnificent dancer who cunningly fuses the ballet vocabulary of his training with contemporary dance idioms." - The Globe and Mail
Soojung Kwon
Choonengmu
Based on classical Korean dance and accompanied by live musicians on traditional Korean instruments, Kwon seamlessly melds dance vocabularies, exploring form and ritual.
Chitralekha Odissi Dance Creations
Kedar Pallavi
The most requested duo in the Odissi world. Pallavi is pure dance based on a melody that is soft and lilting.
"…a brilliant tour de force for the talented Patnaiks." - Globe and Mail
Programme C
Friday May 2 at 7:00 p.m. and Saturday May 3 at 9:00 p.m.
Fujiwara Dance Inventions
Sumida River
A contemporary interpretation of a renowned 15th century Japanese Noh play. Created by acclaimed Butoh choreographer Natsu Nakajima for Denise Fujiwara. Deeply moving and utterly compelling. Final Toronto performance of this critically acclaimed work.
"The intense emotional resonance of Denise Fujiwara's memorable, tragic solo butoh work ... incarnated everything dance can express and communicate through the body where words cannot." - Philip Szporer, Hour Magazine, Montreal
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