With glint, three contemporary dance artists bring to life different spaces in the Scotiabank Dance Centre, July 14 to 16
Erika Mitsuhashi, Francesca Frewer, and Alexa Mardon join forces as part of Dancing on the Edge
Erika Mitsuhashi’s installation for glint.
The Dance Centre presents glint as part of the Dancing on the Edge festival, July 14 to 16 at the Scotiabank Dance Centre
THREE OF VANCOUVER’S most compelling up-and-coming indie choreographers will fill the Scotiabank Dance Centre with movement and exploration this week.
In the triple bill, called glint, Erika Mitsuhashi, Francesca Frewer, and Alexa Mardon each present a piece that’s in a different stage of completion—in a different part of the building.
Mitsuhashi’s work-in-progress, called on the cosmic shore, is a multimedia installation for living and “nonliving” performers—meaning the installation includes sonic and scenographic elements like sculptures and props that serve as dance “partners”. It runs 5 to 7 pm and 8 to 10 pm in one of the studios.
Frewer’s new solo When I Think It Has Yet To Begin, which explores the idea of exhaustion and regeneration, will be performed to small audiences in the theatre at 7 pm.
And Mardon’s dream-oriented a crisis/a party will feature group scores alongside one-on-one dream readings for audience members—all on the patio at sunset., between 8 and 10 pm.
Though each artist is creating a separate work, they have collaborated on the entire evening—and have joined forces in the past. Mitsuhashi and Frewer, for instance, have paired up on Dust, a piece that theatrically integrated vast amounts of dried flowers. As Mardon + Mitsuhashi, the other duo has created work like the experimental George The Parasite Tribute Concert, which was livestreamed from Left of Main. Suffice it to say that with these three, you can expect the experimental, the surreal, and, of course, the unexpected.
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