Raven Spirit Dance, Action at a Distance, and more new work as Dancing on the Edge unveils 2022 festival lineup
Thirty-plus shows spread across outdoor, indoor, and online venues
Raven Spirit Dance’s Confluence. Photo by Erik Zennstrom
DANCING ON THE EDGE has unveiled its 34th annual program July 7 to 16, with more than 30 dance productions, both live and online.
Tickets and passes are now available here.
Along with its mixed Edge programs, the festival features some bigger full-length new works. Vanessa Goodman’s Action at a Distance opens the fest with the new four-dancer work Core/Us, continuing her exploration of live sound and movement, July 7 and again on July 8 at the fest’s Firehall Arts Centre headquarters. And Raven Spirit Dance will also present the world premiere of their Confluence on July 8 and 9 at the same venue, a collaboration by Michelle Olson, Starr Muranko, Jeanette Kotowich, Tasha Faye Evans and Emily Solstice that speaks to the resilience of Indigenous women..
The fest brings in stars of Canadian contemporary dance, including Montreal’s Zab Maboungou/Compagnie Danse NYATA NYATA and Alexandra ‘Spicey’ Landé/Ebnflōh Dance Company.
Local talents on the roster include Olivia C Davies’ O.Dela Arts with the Peppers Ghost New Media Collective, Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg’s Tara Cheyenne Performance, Co.ERASGA, Plastic Orchid Factory’s James Gnam, Calder White, Rebecca Margolick, Kate Franklin with Jeremy O’Neill, and more.
In the great outdoors, Dose of Pleasure, facilitated by visiting Berlin artist Alvin Collantes in partnership with Co.ERASGA, is a free community dance event gathering at McLean Park, while the hip-hop-influenced Ebnflōh is also staging a work al fresco, to be announced on the Dancing on the Edge website.
July 14 to 16, check out the EDGEoff staged throughout the Scotiabank Dance Centre. The triple bill, called glint, features Erika Mitsuhashi’s on the cosmic shore, Francesca Frewer’s When I Think It Has Yet To Begin, and Alexa Mardon’s a crisis/a party.
Also offsite, LEFT of DOTE, staged at Left of Main, features Pam Tzeng’s SHED and knowing each other as different and the same, presented by plastic orchid factory throughout the afternoons of July 15 and 16.
And finally, there’s a Festival Film Pack that spans Anya Saugstad, Helen Simard, Little Pear Garden Dance Company, and Shion Skye Carter.
Find the full schedule and info here.
Tara Cheyenne Performance’s Pants. Photo by Wendy D Photography
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