Arts Encounters

Created by Sarah Chase

Sarah has created a deck of cards with images from her botanical universe.

Each card represents a story. She will meet with one audience member at a time, offering them a kind of divination experience. The cards they select determines a cycle of stories to be told.

“I find that people attract stories that somehow have meaning for them personally in the moment, and I am always inspired by the stories people share with me in return.”

Botanical Readings: Sarah will meet one-on-one with audience members to tell stories with her deck of botanical cards.

Performance by Kiyo Asaoka

Farruca is a passionate and bold flamenco palo traditionally performed by male dancers, characterized by intricate footwork and dynamic tempo changes. While it was once mainly danced by men, today, it is also performed by women, with many different interpretations emerging. This particular Farruca, composed by Nicolás Hernández, blends elegant, fluid elements with the traditional intensity and power that define the style.

A creation by Marie Béland

Fabricate your own truth for free. Appropriate words and gestures, embody radio news and contribute to the propagation of information without verification.

A total sensory and immersive experience, RADIOMATON questions the construction of truth, media contamination, fake news and the role of the body in the perception of information.

Installed in a cubicle resembling a photo booth and equipped with headphones broadcasting live a local radio station, each RADIOMATON user must repeat aloud the words they hear, while imitating the gestures that are displayed on the screen in front of them. This recorded performance, mingling movements and words that do not match together, is remixed in a kaleidoscope where all meanings intersect.

AUTOMATIC – INSTANTANEOUS – TECHNICOLOR IN ONLY 5 MINUTES

Created by Rumi Jeraj

You Can Transform Me is an immersive dance media performance which asks us to reflect on the impact we have on the lives of those around us. Designed as a choose your own adventure VR experience the work introduces you to a series of creatures and their worlds. These creatures are born from the dreams of the dancers, who were asked what their dance would look like, if it was a being other than themselves. Each experience of the work is unique and designed to remind us of how our small choices, impact those around us.

With Tentacle Tribe

After over a decade of experience as professional dancers and choreographers, Elon Höglund and Emmanuelle Lê Phan, founders of Tentacle Tribe, have developed a unique approach to movement. The Tentacle Tribe approach is a concept-based improvisation system, inspired by a wide range of movement philosophies and studies in human anatomy. Putting high emphasis on awareness and decision making, the approach is a mastering of the mechanics and mathematics of the human body in relation to time and space.

As the observer and the creator, from a contemporary lens, we will look at concepts from street styles such as popping and breaking, while learning techniques that will help to expand our movement vocabulary, to an increased level of body awareness and movement consciousness. Through geometric shapes and oppositions, we will explore the capacity for the human body to inhabit multiple planes of space: floor exercises, inversions, “freezes”, traveling across the floor to work on flow, dynamics and control. We will work on the refinement of concepts, in relation to ourselves and other bodies in space, playing with the mechanic and the organic in movements, to give it a sense of illusion and complexity. We will finish with the creation of duets and trios that integrate the day’s concepts. The goal of this workshop is to give a detailed introduction to what the Tentacle Tribe movement approach is, and to provide tools on how to practice and apply it.