Dancers meet microphones and wallpaper, as Vanessa Goodman's new full-length Tuning premieres, February 23 to 26
Alexis Fletcher and Ted Littlemore perform the duet that features a live-generated vocal score
Ted Littlemore and Alexis Fletcher in Tuning. Photo by David Cooper
Tuning is at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts from February 23 to 26
AT LAST SUMMER’S Dancing on the Edge festival, three inspired local artists from different realms of the Vancouver arts scene joined forces for Tuning—a piece in which the performers live-create the whole score using a voice-altering synthesizer.
Ballet BC alumna Alexis Fletcher had commissioned choreographer Vanessa Goodman to create the duet, which features Fletcher and Ted Littlemore—seen last fall in Ne Sans Opera’s critically acclaimed Solo for Orpheus at the Chutzpah Festival.
Goodman, who’s artistic director of her own Action at a Distance company, has now expanded the sonic and physical conversation to a full-length piece, set to debut at the Shadbolt this week.
“We’re exploring how we talk with the body with and without sound, and how breath is important,” Goodman told Stir before the first, short incarnation of Tuning debuted last summer. “The really exciting aspect of the work is that everything is generated in the moment and there’s that ephemeral, fleeting aspect to it….After they create the sound for each show it’s gone forever.”
Goodman has said she was inspired by her work with composer Caroline Shaw on last year’s unforgettable Graveyards and Gardens at Music on Main to work further with the vocoder and live-generation voices.
The world premiere of the new, fully realized work is not just an exploration of sound and movement, but of a visually striking world, care of James Proudfoot's vibrant lighting and wallpaper that embraces one side of the stage, creating a sort of deconstructed domicile.
Check out the trailer below and find out more info here.
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