Artists: Linda Hayes, Molly McDermott, Marissa Wong
Date/Time: Nov 29 2016, 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Vancouver, The Dance Centre
Chick Snipper: Big Melt
Big Melt is a visual tone poem, a eulogy for the Canadian Arctic, celebrating the power of its ancient landscape while mourning its ongoing ruin.
Choreographed and directed by Chick Snipper, with creative input from all the dancers, the first phase of Big Melt brings together a group of dance interpreters from a mix of contemporary training backgrounds and different levels of professional experience. This process of intergenerational exchange is based in mentorship and discourse. Phase 1 is for research and development of initial movement ideas based on the illusive idea of ‘dance as landscape and landscape as dance.’
Dancers: Anne Cooper, Alexa Mardon
Apprentice Dancers: Kelly McInnis, Sophia Wolfe, Tin Gamboa, Ashley Whitehead
Student Dancer/Assistant to the Director: Kayla DeVos (SFU/SCA)
The original 12 Minutes Max concept was pioneered by On the Boards in Seattle where it has been running since 1979. In 1994 The Dance Centre launched a Vancouver edition which for over fifteen years provided an opportunity for artists to show eclectic and innovative new works that ran under twelve minutes. Relaunched in 2014, the current 12MM format seeks to foster experimentation and the development of new work, along with critical feedback and community dialogue.
- There will be three opportunities per season (fall, winter, spring: submission deadlines tba) for artists to submit dance and movement-based works in development running between 7 and 12 minutes.
- A panel of guest curators will select up to four artists per module.
- Selected artists will receive up to 16 hours of fully subsidized studio space at Scotiabank Dance Centre to develop their works, with input from the guest curators. Additional hours may be available at a special discount, if required (subject to availability).
- At the end of each research and development module all the artists will share their work first with each other and the curators, and then in an informal studio showing open to the public.
- At the end of the season, the guest curators will select a number of works for presentation in a ticketed performance at Scotiabank Dance Centre.
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