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november 1 & 2, 2013

PRAIRIE DANCE CIRCUIT

8:00 pmthe rachel browne theatre

winnipeg, mb

SHE MINUTES

THE UNDERSTORY 17 MINUTESINTERMISSION

ENTRE DEUX MONDES 37 MINUTES

SHEshe, is a solo commission by paul-andré fortier

who is she?is she a singer?is she a dancer?

is she a musician?

choreography Paul-André Fortierperformance Robin Poitrascostume Daniel Storto

Funding for the creation of SHE was provided by the Saskatchewan Arts Board, The Regina Arts Commission, and Jacqui Shumiatcher.

“ Montreal’s Paul-André Fortier didn’t necessarily create anything new for Regina’s Robin Poitras, but since she is one of Canada’s greatest dancers and he is one of the country’s best choreographers, their teaming up results in pure gold.”Paula Citron THE GLOBE & MAIL

the understorythe understory follows two performers as they inhabit and travel through a winter landscape, at times becoming the land. Rooted in the image of a sparse field in prairie winter, and the transformative power of fire, this work explores a fine balance between isolation and interdependence.

Bee Pallomina and Johanna Bundon have been engaged in a steady collaboration, working and training in either Toronto or Regina since 2007. Their ongoing duet relationship, which has become the understory, has been evolving since 2008. Their body of work together includes Untitled Duet # 2 (Series 808, Toronto, 2008), WhyRobotsMakeBetterLovers (Globe Theatre Shumiatcher Sandbox Series, Regina, 2010), and Untitled Duet # 3 (Artesian on 13th, Regina, 2011)

score and performance Johanna Bundon and Bee Pallominamusic parhelia by Goldmundtext Johanna Bundon, Wikipedia and Urban Dictionaryoriginal lighting design Parker Nowlancostume Johanna Bundon and Bee Pallominaset and props Lange Moving Supplies, Michelin and Mother Nature

Thank you to Matt Sawatsky, a lovely arborist, for his help with a tree.

ENTRE DEUX MONDESThis premiere is a cinematic exploration of loss, longing and our need for connection. Many thanks, for their creative contribution, to the dancers and the workshop cast of Johanna Riley, Sarah Roche, Lise McMillan, Emma Rose, and Mark Medrano.

choreography Brent Lottperformers Johanna Riley, Sam Penner, James Thomson Kacki, Sarah Helmermusic Space Cadet by Kid Koala video designer jaymezcostume construction Norma Lachancesongs by Roberta Flack, Ben Watt, Sam M. Lewis & J. Fred Coots

BIOGRAPHIESBRENT LOTT began his professional dance career with Dance Collective followed by Ruth Cansfield Dance, then danced for Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers from 1999 to 2004 under Tom Stroud, during which time he also became his assistant. Brent was appointed the Artistic Director of WCD in June of 2005 when Mr. Stroud left the company to pursue his first love, theatre.  As a choreographer, Brent has been actively creating for over a decade. His most recent full-length work, 97 Positions of the Heart, “…an extraordinary heart-stopping fusion of movement and text.”-Alison

Mayes, was performed at the 2012 Canada Dance Festival. Other full-length works include STRUCK (2008), Coming Into Autumn, with actor Naomi Cooke, His Banner Over Me, with clarinetist Lori Freedman and a co-production with Christina Medina titled as long as now. Brent is a member of the faculty of the Professional Program of SCD and a past faculty member of the Professional Program of RWB.  Brent is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Dancer Transition Resource Centre, a national organization whose mandate is to help dancers make the necessary transitions into, within, and from professional performing careers.  

ROBIN POITRAS is one of Saskatchewan’s most prolific dance and performance creators, creating dance, performance and installation works since the early 80s. Robin traverses the formal worlds of dance and performance art. Her practice is rooted in a physical world comprised of choreography, dance and actions/acts. Her work often involves the use of found or formed objects, texts, images, sound and other media. She co-founded New Dance Horizons in 1986, where she continues to act as Artistic Director. With an interest in research into diverse fields of artistic

and somatic practice, she has developed a unique interdisciplinary approach. Robin’s works have been presented across Canada, in Spain, France, Germany, Mongolia and Mexico. She is a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2006 Mayor’s Awards for Business & The Arts in Regina, and the 2004 Women of Distinction Award for the Arts.

BEE PALLOMINA is active as a performer, collaborator and creator, currently making work for stage, installation and film/video. Born and raised in Toronto, she graduated from the School of Toronto Dance Theatre in 1995. She has collaborated and performed with many independent choreographers, including Livia Daza-Paris, D. A. Hoskins, Jessica Runge, Michelle Silagy, Miko Sobreira, and Eryn Dace Trudell and several dance companies, including Dancetheatre David Earle (1998-2010), Atlas Moves Watching, DANCEFRONT, CORPUS, Sound Image Theatre, Teatr Novogo

Fronta (Czech Republic) and Dancemakers (1998 to 2000). Pallomina also appeared in dance films by filmmakers Magali Charrier, Michael Downing, John Oswald and Karen Kaeja. In 2005 and 2006 she co-created two dance films with John Lauener, which premiered at the Moving Pictures Festival and toured across Canada. Current collaborators include Ame Henderson/Public Recordings and multi-media artist Lee Henderson.

BIOGRAPHIESJOHANNA BUNDON is an independent dance artist living and working in Regina. Her practice includes choreography, performance, and a physical approach to theatre creation. Johanna’s choreography has been presented by New Dance Horizons (Regina), Globe Theatre’s Shumiatcher Sandbox Series (Regina), and in 2011 as part of the National Arts Centre’s Prairie Scene Festival (Ottawa). She frequently works alongside other artists, most notably in collaboration with Bee Pallomina, Jayden Pfeifer, and Branwyn Bundon. From 2006 to 2013, Johanna frequently created movement for

theatre, including choreography and movement direction for Regina’s Globe Theatre Mainstage and co-directing Fusion, Globe Theatre’s creation initiative for young artists from 2008 to 2010. As a performer, Johanna has engaged work by choreographer Robin Poitras, including End of Summer (2013), The Horse Piece (2012), and memex ovum (2006). www.johannabundon.com

JOHANNA RILEY has been involved in the Winnipeg dance community as a performer, choreographer, teacher, and producer for over a decade. She is a graduate of the Senior Professional Program of the School of Contemporary Dancers, with a B.A. Honours in Dance from the University of Winnipeg. She is currently in her eighth season as a company member with Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers, through which she has had the opportunity to perform the work of Brent Lott, Serge Bennathan, Lesandra Dodson, Susie Burpee, Sharon Moore, Sasha Ivanochko, Andrew Milne and Roger Sinha.

Riley also works independently; she performed in Peter Quanz’s Q Dance in February 2013 and has been a performer, choreographer, and producer with Young Lungs Dance Exchange since its formation in 2004. Riley is also a performer/choreographer with The Momentum Collective, whose first production was in March 2013.

JAYMEZ (James Jansen) is a video artist, VJ, designer, and technician and holds a BFA in Video from the University of Manitoba School of Art. He has created video for theatre, composers, classical singers, DJs and metal bands, including the Winnipeg Jewish Theatre’s 2013 productions of Angels in America: Perestroika and Good Intentions. His live video performances have been featured at dozens of events both locally and nationally. He is a resident visualist at Bass Invaders, as well as a member of non-dance electronic project Cloudfight, industrial metal band Soul Killing Female, and

experimental voice+visual project “The Gritty” with soprano Sarah Kirsch. He is currently the Production Manager of Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers as well as Technical Director for both Adhere+Deny and the Cluster New Music and Integrated Arts Festival.

BIOGRAPHIESSAM PENNER is a 2013 graduate of the Senior Professional Program of the School of Contemporary Dancers, and also holds a B.A. Honours in Dance from the University of Winnipeg. Previously, Sam has danced with Stephanie Ballard and Dancers in Ottawa, and this summer had the pleasure of dancing in Rachel Browne’s Willow Island for a yet unnamed film about the late Rachel Browne’s life and work, by producer/director Danielle Sturk. After working with WCD last year for their emerging artist company VERGE, Sam is excited to be returning as an apprentice this season.

JAMES THOMSON KACKI is enthusiastic to work with Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers in his first season as an apprentice with the company. He has also performed with WCD in WCD’s Verge and for the 2013 Rachel Browne Tribute Tour in Winnipeg, Toronto and Vancouver. James has performed with Drive Dance featuring works gifted by Stephanie Ballard and Gaile Petursson-Hiley, with Odette Heyn Projects and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, with Stephanie Ballard and Dancers, and with Menaka Thakkar Dance Company (Toronto). Upcoming, he will be

working with Mouvement/ Winnipeg Dance Projects. He is a 2012 graduate of the Professional Program of the School of Contemporary Dancers in affiliation with the University of Winnipeg, and is now pursuing a second major in East Asian Language and Culture after having completed his major in Dance.

SARAH HELMER is very excited to be performing as an apprentice with WCD in this year’s Prairie Dance Circuit. Sarah holds a BA Honours in Dance from the University of Winnipeg in affiliation with the Professional Program of the School of Contemporary Dancers. Since graduating from SCD in 2012, she has had the opportunity to work with several companies and choreographers, including Odette Heyn-Projects with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, WCD’s emerging company VERGE, and Riley Sims of Social Growl Dance under the mentorship of Peter Boneham and Sylvie

Desrosiers in Ottawa. Sarah was deeply honoured to perform in Rachel Browne’s last piece, Momentum in WCD’s Toward Light tour this past January. Sarah also had the chance to work on her own choreography through Young Lungs Dance Exchange’s Research Series in collaboration with Rachelle Bourget, the results of which were performed at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival this summer in Nova Dance Collective’s show And Other Stories. Sarah is thrilled to be making her debut as an apprentice in this exciting show!

BIOGRAPHIESPARKER NOWLAN is an emerging Toronto based lighting designer and recent graduate of Theatre Production and Design at York University. Recent credits include In Just Spring (Rite Redux); The Understory pt. 3 (The Field); Sea Swirl (Frost Moon Dances); Onward Ho, My Love; Crepuscular (with Gabriel Cropely) (Dusk Dances); Wonder’s Lost Where Wonder’s Found; and Emerging Artist’s Collective (playGround Festival). Upcoming: InspiraTO Festival (Alumnae Theatre), and Corpus Matris (Toronto Fringe). Parker is also one half of production duo HolloH. www.holloh.co.uk.

FRASER MACKINNON is very excited to be in Winnipeg for his first time ever and thinks it’s the bees knees that it’s to be performing as part of the Prairie Dance Circuit. A Scarborough native living in Ottawa working in multiple disciplines through experimentation and observation, Fraser is currently working on his mise en scene for Red. Collective’s Reasons To Be Pretty by Neil Labute. Some fun things that have happened recently were writing for Obviously, A Theatre Company, going on tour with ODD and directing Beckett in a jail cell for Nuit Blanche. Much love to Robin Poitras and Brent Lott.

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