Miscellaneous Productions' OVERWHELMED! is a love letter to the Vancouver arts community
The new digital film features appearances by Simran Sachar, Amber Funk Barton, Tonye Aganaba, and many more
Simran Sachar.
FEELING DEFEATED, INUNDATED, overcome, exhausted, anxious, or buried by way too much to handle: these are some ways to describe what it’s like to feel overwhelmed.
In MISCELLANEOUS Productions’ OVERWHELMED!—a new, original digital work—seasoned and mid-career professional composers, choreographers, performance artists, activists, and others in the local arts community explore and express their feelings and experiences of overwhelm.
To create the film, MP asked a variety of performers to think about what feeling overwhelmed is like: Where do you feel it in your body? How does it make you move?
The generationally and culturally representative group of artists use spoken word, contemporary dance, street dance, performance art, and various genres of original music in the film to convey uncontrollable emotions in complicated times.
Created, directed, and produced by MP artistic director Elaine Carol, the film features commissioned compositions by Tonye Aganaba, Renae Morriseau, and Robin Layne, among others, and dance pieces choreographed by Marissa Wong, Arjun Panesar, Amber Funk Barton, and Natasha Gorrie.
Lennox Johnston-Yu, Eric D. Wong, Helen Dang, Zachery C. Longboy ,Grace Eiko Thomson, Sophia Sosa, Lucy Luo, Zefanya Hardhian, Simran Sachar, Petra Ayedzi, Jason Bempong, Adrian Glynn are among the other cast members.
“This is our love letter to the Vancouver arts community at an overwhelming time!” the MISCELLANEOUS Production team states on its YouTube channel.
MISCELLANEOUS Productions describes itself as “a hip hop theatre boot camp” developed for culturally and socially representative youth facing multiple barriers. The organization presents and tours an original work every two years, gives free peer-run workshops to at-risk youth, and makes films about its performances.
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