Thursday August 26th at 9:30pm
Young Centre for the Performing Arts – Garland Cabaret 55 Mill Street
Visual media artist Elysha Poirier, cellist/vocalist/improvising composer Anne Bourne, and installation artists Helen Yung & Tom Kuo join Andrea Nann in exploring, creating and weaving together a playful and interactive sound, visual and spatial art experience. A GARLAND of playful delights so to speak.
COMPANY LOUNGE The Young Centre Company Lounge is a gathering place for Toronto’s arts community, so feel free to drop by every Thursday, kick back and have a drink. It’s informal and a great opportunity for audience members to participate in and witness the creative process.
Re:Location(2010)
created and performed by Maiko Bae Yamamoto & Andrea Nann
Commissioned by the Powell Street Festival Society with the support of the Vancouver Japanese Language School.
Saturday July 31st 3-4pm Sunday August 1st 5-6pm Vancouver Japanese Language School
475 Alexander Street (starting on 3rd Floor)
As the performance commences the two artists and the audience are quietly drawn together then abruptly split apart and taken on separate journeys. In two groups the audience follows each of the women. Along the path audience members are led through a series of rooms and corridors and offered shared experiences from various vantage points or perspectives.
Re: Location is a convergence of personal stories, mythology, music, dance and imaginings from Yamamoto and Nann’s Vancouver childhoods. This site-specific work is created for the 2010 Powell Street Festival by Toronto-based contemporary dancer Nann and Vancouver-based theatre artist Yamamoto.
July 31, 2010 6pm Mainstage – Oppenheimer Park
400 Block Powell Street Vancouver
LOUD is a Vancouver based duo composed of Eileen Kage (taiko & percussion) and Elaine Stef (electric guitar). Their original music melds the acoustic with the electric into music described as ‘the soundtrack to the world breathing andthe soul stirring’. The group has toured Canada, the United States and Europe. They regularly lend their support to the community, performing at festivals, prisons and fund raising events. Andrea Nann will make a special guest appearance during LOUD’s PSF Mainstage set.
Dreamwalker Dance Company & Young Centre for the Performing Arts present a special preview tour of
photo by John Lauener
Beside Each Other created & performed by Nann and Brendan Wyatt
music & poetry by Gord Downie
conceived by Andrea Nann facilitated by Guy Cools visual designs by Elysha Poirier
lighting and production design by David Duclos stage management and performance by Valerie Stevens
July 4, 2010 8pm
St. John’s Newfoundland
Presented by Sound Symposium
LSPU Hall
July 10, 2010 8pm
Nanaimo, BC
presented by Crimson Coast Dance Society
The Port Theatre
July 11, 2010 8pm Hornby Island, BC
Studio showing
New Horizons
July 16, 2010 7pm July 17, 2010 9pm Vancouver, BC
Excerpts presented by Dancing on the Edge Festival
Firehall Arts Centre
Drawing on the success of our 2009 Festival, The Whole Shebang Community Festival 2010 will once again centre around the diverse and historic Cabbagetown district of downtown Toronto.
Our public high school touring performance will reach across the GTA to features a cast of diverse Toronto based artists including: dancers, musicians, visual artists, poets and singers in a 40 minute blockbuster mixed repertoire programme curated speci!cally for youth. Each student matinee programme performance is followed by a question & answer period with the artists.
Each student matinee programme performance will also be supported by a series of three creative morning workshops that will take place prior to the Company’s performance date. The workshop series will be offered to a selected group of 30 dance, music and creative writing students from your school. A trio of Shebang artists (dancer, musician, writer) will come to your school to work with these students to explore improvisation strategies that will generate materials for a collaborative performance piece. Students will learn to create ‘instant’ compositions within a structured framework using common themes and time markers that instigate creative expression and allow the different elements to interact. Guided by the Shebang artists, these students will perform their work during one part of our matinee programme.
The workshops are designed to expand learning and life experiences for students through the basic elements of dance and form and exercises that inspire imagination, exploration, discovery, composition, storytelling, dramatic intention, and execution. Learners will engage in carefully structured and responsibly monitored movement and dance exercises and improvisations. The students learn to focus individually and as a group to confront and communicate selected issues through temporal and spatial relationships, gestures and movements. Specic activities will depend upon the age and experience level of the learners. Older or more experienced learners will be challenged with more complex tasks and concepts.
