GRAFT goes to Ottawa!

If you're in the vicinity of
the Canada Dance Festival
in Ottawa, be sure and catch
closing night at ArtsCourt,
when Ron Stewart tears up
the stage with GRAFT, by
Jennifer Mascall.

Festival curator Jeanne Holmes
calls the West Coast "a hotbed "
(Georgia Straight) and a third
of the shows in this national
celebration of dance are by
our BC community of artists!

Don't miss it!
CANADA DANCE FEST
Artscourt, Ottawa
June 11, 2016
8:30PM
Older + Reckless

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" Inside the solo, it feels very
tenuous â€“ the dance deals
in a real way with chaos.
Those flying PVC pipes follow
the spiral and twist of my body.
The range of the solo is the
range of shifting form
produced by that spiral,
twist, breathâ€¦ "

Ron Stewart vividly
describes the process
of preparing "Graft"
for performance
on islands and highway
cul-de-sacs across
North America.

Read Ron

Older and Reckless is a
well-loved salon-style
platform for mature
dance artists and
their work, founded
and curated by
Claudia Moore.

Saturday, Ron joins
a stellar line-up:
Robert Desrosiers,
Lina Cruz, Louise
Bedard Karen Kaeja,
Esmerelda Enrique
and Claudia herself.

Meanwhile work on
THE OUTLINER is
firing on all cylinders.
Composer Stefan
Smulovitz discusses
creating the music.

Read Stefan

J ennifer Mascallâ€™s new work, The Outliner
premieres July 6 â€“ 9 in association with the
Dancing on the Edge Festival 2016.

For the second time in as many decades,
our huge studio at 1130 Jervis (St Paul's hall,
in the West Endâ€™s Davie Village) becomes a
performance venue.

Festival audiences enter a formal performance
environment - think Borges meets Bauhaus -
a suspended and magical white kingdom
inhabited by fantastical beings and unexpected
events.

â€¨â€¨Each figure wears an architecturally devised
costume: some appear like creatures, others
contraptions. All are extensions of an idea
of the body.

Dancer and garment delineate lines and
volumes in space, rendering the invisible
visible. The point of ignition between dancer
and garment reveals what we understand
and communicate about the body in space.

An outstanding group of designers and solo
artists have worked with Mascall to create
The Outliner, scored by Stefan Smulovitz.

"...an otherworldly work with a
suitably otherworldly process,
in many different cities and
times...."
Stefan Smulovitz

A final concoction is underway, teaming
Mascall with innovative Vancouver designer
Nathan Wiens (known for his venue,
ChapelArts, as well as his unique wood
design. The result will be activated for the
first time on opening night the incomparable
Canadian dance artist Robin Poitras
(New Dance Horizons). â€¨â€¨

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M A S C A L L D A N C E

in association with
DANCING ON THE EDGE

presents:

T H E O U T L I N E R

created by

J E N N I F E R M A S C A L L

premiering

JULY 6, 7, 8, 9 2016

7 and 9 PM

1130 Jervis Street
MascallDance Studio
St. Paul's Church Hall

DANCING ON THE EDGE
FESTIVAL 2016