Isadora Award for excellence in choreography goes to Corporeal Imago's Gabrielle Martin and Jeremiah Hughes
Dance company’s artistic directors are being recognized for their their aerial work Limb(e)s
Jeremiah Hughes. Photo by Janie Mallet
Gabrielle Martin. Photo by Janie Mallet
THE DANCE CENTRE has announced Gabrielle Martin and Jeremiah Hughes, artistic directors of contemporary aerial dance company Corporeal Imago (Ci), as the recipients of the annual Isadora Award for excellence in choreography.
It’s a nod to the aerial-dance company’s outstanding full-length work Limb(e)s, a piece that explores the liminal space between holding onto or letting go of another.
The show conjured a rich visual world that earned it a Total Theatre Award nomination in Physical and Visual Theatre at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The piece has also been presented live in Montreal, and online as a film adaption at Vancouver’s Dancing on the Edge festival.
Both Martin and Hughes have an extensive background as dance and circus arts performers for companies like Cirque du Soleil. Martin is also a cultural producer and curator who’s director of programming at the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. Ci currently has a residency at The Dance Centre
As part of the award, Martin and Hughes receive a cash award of $2,500, access to studio time at Scotiabank Dance Centre towards the creation of a new work, and a specially-designed award created by renowned glass sculptor Mary Filer.
The Isadora Award, named after the dance pioneer Isadora Duncan, was instituted by The Dance Centre in 1999 to recognize and celebrate the achievements of the dance profession in British Columbia. Recipients are chosen by an independent jury of professionals. Previous recipients have included Peter Bingham, Crystal Pite, Wen Wei Wang, Jennifer Mascall, Helen Walkley, and Julia Taffe, among others.
Ci’s Limb(e)s.
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