18th Annual
Festival of New Dance!
Photo: David Hou
June 17 - 22, 2008
LSPU Hall, St. John's, NL
Staged every summer since 1990, the Festival of New Dance is Neighbourhood Dance Works's flagship event presenting local, national and international choreographers to the extreme delight and challenge of its loyal audiences. Over the years St. John's has seen some of Canada's highest ranking and most sought after contemporary dance artists grace the stage of the LSPU Hall at the Festival of New Dance.
For tickets and show information, call the LSPU Hall Box office: (709) 753-4531
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
June 17
Opening gala & reception
LSPU Hall Gallery 7 pm
- PERFORMANCE SERIES
June 17 & 18
Toronto Dance Theatre (Toronto)
Chiasmata
LSPU Hall 8 pm
June 19 & 20
Nora Chipaumire (New York/Zimbabwe)
Chimurenga
LSPU Hall 8 pm
June 20 & 21
A Newfoundland Showcase
Sarah Joy Stoker, Sapiens lay here Calla Lachance, 7 dances for my mother Louise Moyes, choreography by Eryn Dace Trudell Basement Theatre, Arts & Culture Centre, 6:30 pm
June 21 & 22
Denise Fujiwara (Toronto)
No Exit
Chanti Wadge (Montreal)
One Hundred Returnings
LSPU Hall 8 pm
June 22
Solid State (Montreal)
Take it Back
Masonic Temple, Cathedral Street
10 pm - followed by the festival closing party
- FILM SERIES
June 18 & 19
Movement (R)evolution Africa "A Story of an Art Form in Four Acts" Produced and directed by Joan Frosch The Rooms Lecture Theatre 6:30 pm
Presented in cooperation with The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery
June 18 Free Admission
June 19 Free with admission to The Rooms $5 s/s$4
- OFF SITE PERFORMANCES
June 18 to 22
Alicia Grant and Cara Spooner ((St. John's/Toronto)
Mourning Sunshine & IT/OUT/IN
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Tickets for the evening performances will be on sale at the LSPU Hall Box Office (709) 753-4531.
Tickets for the Newfoundland Showcase will be available at the Arts and Culture Centre.
The film series at The Rooms is free with admission to the Rooms, ($5 general/$4 seniors)
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Look Who's Coming June 17 - 22, 2008 |
Toronto Dance Theatre's Christopher House
Artistic Director and Choreographer
 Artistic Director of Toronto Dance Theatre since 1994, Christopher House is one of Canada's leading choreographers. He has transformed TDT into a company known internationally for its fresh, intelligent and provocative dance.
Born & raised in St. John's, NL, House has been Resident Choreographer of TDT since 1981. We are delighted to open the festival with Chiasmata, choreographed by Christopher House and performed by Toronto Dance Theatre. This work takes us on a strange and beautiful journey through time, space and the portals of memory. In Christopher House's  masterly follow-up to the physical and technological virtuosity of Timecode Break (2006), the dancers inhabit a cryptic world that ranges in tone from playful to percussive to sublimely vulnerable. (June 17 and 18, LSPU Hall, 8 pm).
 Nora Chipaumire(New York/Zimbabwe) is part of an urgent and explosive African contemporary modern dance movement. She is a remarkable solo artist who investigates the collaborative process within cultural, political, economic and technological identities of African contemporary life. Relevant and timely, Chimurenga weaves historical as well as personal recollections about Zimbabwe's chimurenga, moving from childhood recollections to a celebration of womanhood. Word, gesture, song, stillness, music, shouts, screams and filmed image converge and collide in this artist's solo dance-works. (June 19 and 20 LSPU Hall, 8 pm)
 One Hundred Returnings looks at the evolution of physical and emotional expression in the context of a human lifespan - birth, aging, death - and draws inspiration from the myriad mirrors of the natural world. In this solo work, Montreal dance and multi-disciplinary artist Chanti Wadge continues her study of moving through various states and stages of 'becoming and unbecoming human being.' (June 21 and 22 LSPU Hall, 8 pm in a shared program with Fujiwara Dance Inventions No Exit)
 Choreographed by multi-disciplinary artist and choreographer Denise Fujiwara (Toronto), No Exit, is a compelling dance-theatre work inspired by Jean-Paul Sartre's play of the same name. The narrative follows three strangers as they arrive in an unlikely hell, a sitting room with a locked door. With exasperating provocations, humour and pathos, the characters exemplify the dilemma that Sartre has put forward through his proposition, "Hell is other people". The work is performed by the talented Sasha Ivanochko, Rebecca Hope Terry and Miko Sobreira, with a live musical score by Phil Strong. (June 21 and 22 LSPU Hall, 8 pm in a shared program with Chanti Wadge.)
 Solid State's Take it Back, choreographed by Helen Simard and Jo Dee Allen (Montreal) is our choice for the final show of the festival and the closing party. Take it Back uses the high physicality of bboying, transplanted into the partnering structures of LindyHop and Swing. A high energy, fun show, Solid State brings freedom, excitement, and spontaneity to the stage symbolizing the moments of 'ecstatic shine' that are the true spirit of street dance. (June 22 Masonic Temple, 10 pm followed by the festival closing party.
 The Newfoundland Showcase
highlights three unique dancers living in St John's, Louise Moyes, Sarah Joy Stoker and Calla Lachance. (June 20 and 21, Arts and Culture Centre, Basement Theatre, 6:30 pm)
 Movement (R)evolution Africa (65min) (FILM)
A story of an art form in four acts
Produced and directed by Joan Forsch, co directed and edited by Alla Kovgan
In an astonishing exposition of choreographic fomentation, nine African choreographers from Senegal to South Africa tell the stories of an emergent art form and their diverse and deeply contemporary expressions of self. Stunning choreography and riveting critiques challenge stale stereotypes of "traditional Africa" to unveil soul-shaking responses to the beauty and tragedy of 21st century Africa. Nora Chipaumire, one of the artists who we are presenting at the Festival, is featured in this film. (June 18th and 19th, The Rooms Lecture Theatre, 6.30 pm)
 Mourning Sunshine and It/Out/In are social experiment projects choreographed and performed by Alicia Grant (St. John's) and Cara Spooner (Toronto). Watch out for a spontaneous performance in a bar, cafe or sidewalk bench.
If you are looking for more information on the Festival of New Dance or any other of Neighbourhood Dance Works programs please call (709) 722-9454 or e-mail ndw@nfld.net
www.neighbourhoodanceworks.com Robbie Thomas,
Manager Neighbourhood Dance Works
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