Vancouver audience favourite Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg and Italy's Silvia Gribaudi collide and embrace in a new collaboration which navigates the role of comedy as a catalyst to understanding and communication
Date/Time: Feb 17 2017, 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Vancouver, The Dance Centre | Event calendarCost: $36.46
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Both these seriously funny women have crafted their own expert blends of physicality and characterization to create hilarious but poignant works, which reflect on the absurdities of life and what it means to be human. Featuring an original soundscape composed and performed live by musician Marc Stewart, empty.swimming.pool is a cocktail of dance, theatre and voice, spiced with acute observations and subversive humour.
Post-show artist talkback February 17
A world premiere from the unique and captivating Vancouver’s Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg and Italy’s award-winning Silvia Gribaudi. In their collaborative new work empty.swimming.pool they collide and embrace while navigating the role of comedy as a catalyst to questions of gender, culture and language and understanding. Both these seriously funny women have crafted their own expert blends of physicality and characterization to create hilarious but poignant work, so when they join forces we are in for a treat!
Accompanied on stage by composer/performer Marc Stewart, Tara and Silvia have created a fun, fascinating journey full of whimsy, wisecracks and wit while offering up an intriguing glimpse into life’s absurdities and human nature.
“Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg’s talent is immense. Talent feels like a cheap word today, but I am not sure what else to call it. What she possesses stretches beyond ability. A compelling mover and an equally convincing actor…” – The Dance Current
“Silvia Gribaudi is a unique artist who cultivates the ugly-ism and a bitter humor; her showy physique is definitely against the current.” – El Pais
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