Experiments 2012 Ontario Tour (New Media/Projection Design)

Touring with LINK DANCE as New Media/Projection Designer for remounting EXPERIMENTS (revision) in Toronto and Guelph, Ontario.

Subtle Technologies, LINK Dance Foundation and Danceworks are proud to present EXPERIMENTS: Where Logic and Emotion Collide as part of the 15th annual Subtle Technologies Festival.

Friday May 25 and Saturday May 26 @ 8pmGet tickets here! NB: A 3-day Festival pass includes one ticket to the Friday evening showing.

A collaboration between ecologists and dancers, EXPERIMENTS probes the connections between science and art to unveil the creativity, experimentation and intuition employed in both disciplines to understand the world around us. For three years, LINK Dance Artistic Director Gail Lotenberg researched this piece with a group of dancers and renowned ecologists, specializing in the study of non-verbal communication. A world of new ideas comes alive on stage.

Experiments “brings together…art and science … in a show quite unlike anything you’ve seen before.” Georgia Straight, Nov 2010

http://subtletechnologies.com/events/festival-2012/experiments/

sound design got into DOXA film festival

I've been working with the amazing filmmaker, artist and educator Pia Massie as Sound Designer in the past couple years on this project. It was initially created for 3 ch. video installation piece, but it also got made into a screening version as well, in 5.1 surround.

It got into DOXA Film Festival!

http://www.doxafestival.ca/festival/films/just_beyond

http://justbeyondhope.com/

collaboration in SFU MFA project "a doll's room"

Based on Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House

Directed by Pegah Tabassinejad
Dramaturgue: Nazli Akhtari

Technical Director: Terence Grigoruk
Lighting Advisor: Jonathan Kim
Stage Manager: Cherry Song

Performers: Golnaz Boroumandi
Mehdi Sadr
Natalie Schneck
David Secunda
Vic Ustare

and

Voice: Sarah Amini
Music: Remy Siu
New Media: Sammy Chien


This Performance is open to public to get in sometimes between 6pm-10pm and leave whenever you want.
It is part of the MFA Spring Show of the grad students of Interdisciplinary Art program at SFU and it's a good opportunity to watch other performances, including dance, theatre and music within this period of time.

A Doll’s Room is a four-hour durational piece that does and does not happen on the stage. It explores the gap between the virtual and the real, and investigates the absence within the two worlds.
The piece tries to practice absence: absence of actors, composers, designers and production elements such as light or sound. It uses very minimal technical support. This performance is an attempt to study the differences and similarities between theatre performances and reality shows. It explores the space between the performers as well as the space between the audience and the performance.
As the title suggests the spoken text mostly comes from Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. Ibsen’s play provided me literary with sentences. I treated his sentences as just sentences, and our dramaturge wrote and rewrote them considering no original logic or intention. The characters are equally important, but they accidentally remained reflective of Ibsen’s characters.