VIDF livestreams Josh Martin’s Brimming for German international dance festival, September 11
Company 605’s artistic co-director performs solo live from Kokoro’s KW Studios as part of TANZAHOi

Brimming.
2022-2023 VIDF Livestream presents Brimming on September 11 at 12:30 pm online
VANCOUVER IS PERFORMING in a German global dance festival from home.
Brimming is a solo piece created and performed by Company 605 artistic co-director Josh Martin. It will stream from Kokoro’s KW Studios via mulitple live-feed cameras as part of the Hamburg-based TANZAHOi International Festival’s DIGI play DANCE program.
Set to a haunting score by Vancouver-based composers Ian William Craig and Mathoms, the work—co-produced by Company 605 and Kokoro Dance/KW Studios—explores the body as a vessel, a container that holds and hides its inner contents.
“The piece unfolds as a live and intimate cinematic experience that imagines the body as a hollow interior space continuously shaped and reshaped, filled and emptied, while inhabited through different states,” according to the work’s synopsis. “A performer trapped inside his own form, the dance is a meeting of both the seen and unseen – the invisible thoughts that slosh up against the sides, welling up to push against the outer surface from beneath, and occasionally leaking out under an extreme pressure.
“The real-time choreography of cameras carries viewers deep into a private inner world, becoming hidden witnesses inside this dark psychological space and brought into uncomfortably close proximity with a very personal moment of coping and collapse,” Company 605 states. “Brimming explores this shape we are in, how it holds us, and what may eventually spill out as the walls begin to bend.”
The livestream is free. More information and registration details are at VIDF.
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