/Dance/Songs/

2006

/Dance/Songs/
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Concept and Direction:
Ame Henderson
Music:
Eric Craven
Created and performed by:
Chad Dembski
Claudia Fancello
Matija Ferlin
Video for Stage:
Daniel Arcé
Design:
Trevor Schwellnus
Dramaturgy:
Jacob Zimmer
Costume:
Cathia Pagotto
Developed at Le Groupe Dance Lab with monitor Yvonne Coutts (February 2006)
Production History:
June 3-6, 2009 Festival TransAmériques, Montreal
February 18-22, 2009 at the Rhubarb Festival, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
April 24-26, 2008. LiveArt Productions, The Bus Stop Theatre, Halifax NS
April 17-19, 2008, Neighbourhood Dance Works, LSPU Hall. St John's NL
September 22-24, 2007 Esterni International Festival of Contemporary Arts, Terni, Italy
May 29-30, 2007, The Main Hall. Montreal
November 17-25, 2006 The Great Hall Downstairs. Toronto (a DanceWorks Co-Works Series event)

A dance in the shape of a rock show.

/Dance/Songs/, like a good rock concert, flirts with obscenity. It can be over-the-top and out-of-control. The performers let it all out in front of the crowd. It is abandoned and joyful, intimate and tender. It disrupts the dance concert with wit, energy and excess.

/Dance/Songs/ is a collaboration with Montreal-based musician Eric Craven (Constellation Records)

If there was anything I'd want to tell people I'd say something about how the show clandestinely enters the cultural territory of the rock show and leaves the audience with a new, demanding sense of what dance, music and presence mean. Yes, it's a dance in the shape of a rock show, but maybe the best concert that you will never see.

– Evan Webber

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Project Support:
Toronto Arts Council
Ontario Arts Council
Canada Council
DanceWorks
VIA Rail