2011-06-28

Collision 2011 -Karen Jamieson Dance






Collision
“Collision” is a three year interdisciplinary, multileveled dance production reflective of Vancouver's history. It takes place at the Roundhouse once the western terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway and now a creative centre for people of all cultures and ages.

Created by an extraordinary team of award winning artists of varying disciplines, “Collision” collides professional contemporary dancers with multicultural and multigenerational community dancers, composers, photographers, filmmakers, designers and cultural figures.

“Collision” explores the collisions of past and present and the historical collision of European and Asian immigrants and First Nations and their different relationships to the railway. The many lives of this territory are integral to “Collision”

The audience moves through the Roundhouse public areas within and without the building with over 30 performers animating the spirit of the place and evocative imagery that brings past and present into the same space. Music will be both live and recorded including the sound of iron railways spikes clanging on the tracks and the amplified sounds of the space itself as the bodies of the dancers move through it.

The Roundhouse provides a venue that gives the audience multiple ways to experience the performance — activity is happening around you, you choose what to look at, what to hear, where to stand, how you want to experience the program — what you want to take from it.

Choreographer & Performer: Karen Jamieson
Composers: John Korsrud, Jeff Corness, Kristen Roos
Photographer & Still Images: Chris Randle
Filmmaker & Moving Images: David Rimmer
Media Artist, Projection: Sammy Chien
Production Director & Lighting Design: Jean Philippe Trepanier
Production & Lighting Associate: Jeff Harrison
Stage Manager: Julie Martens
Rehearsal Director & Chinese Research & Performance: Su-Lin Tseng
First Nations Consultant and Performer: Chief Ian Campbell
Costumer Designer: Kate Burrows
Costume Coordinator: Marguerite T
Professional Dancers: Brian Solomon, Darcy McMurray, Caroline Farquhar, Meredith Kalaman, Donald Taruc
Community Dancers & Squamish First Nation Dancers

Performances
July 14, 15, 16, 17, 2011

Performances July 14, 15, 16 at 8:00pm
Performance July 17 at 2:00pm

Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre
Part of the 2011 Dancing on the Edge festival

Tickets available through Dancing on the Edge
www.dancingontheedge.org or 604.689.0926