Crow’s Nest and Other Places She’s Gone is a new dance-theatre work by Olivia C. Davies, developed in collaboration with Coast Salish storyteller, Rosemary Georgeson, performance artist, Anne Riley, and aerial dancer Emily Long
Date/Time: May 18 2017, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Coquitlam, Evergreen Cultural Centre | Event calendarCost: $20.00
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The work highlights women’s stories of travel and transitions, based on Contemporary Aboriginal vocabulary and story-weaving.
Olivia C. Davies is an independent dance artist and choreographer whose work investigates the body’s dynamic ability to transmit narrative. She honours her mixed Welsh, Metis-Anishnawbe heritage in her Contemporary Aboriginal dance-theatre practice and acknowledges that she is now a guest who works and plays on the unceeded Coast Salish territories.
After formal training at York University, Olivia co-founded Toronto’s MataDanze Collective and co-created several productions, as well as the workshop series Weaving Stories of Transformation. She developed her career as a soloist in the Cabaret scene in Toronto before moving to Vancouver and interpreting for Body Narratives Collective, Starrwind Dance Projects, Maura Garcia Dance and Circadia Indigena Collective.
Selected independent choreographic credits:
- Conversation at BC Buds 2014, Dancing on the Edge 2014 and Talking Stick Festival 2015
- Compass at Native Earth Performing Arts “Weesageechak Begins to Dance” Festival 2015
- Somewhere There at Brief Encounters/Bad Ideas Cabaret and BC Buds 2015
- Caged Bird at Harbourfront Centre’s 60×60 Dance
Olivia has choreographed fashion shows, music videos, gala events and numerous collaborations with musical improvisers in Toronto’s Coexisdance Duet Series. Davies has adapted writings by E.E. Cummings, Khalil Gibran, Rainer Maria Rilke, Vancouver-based spoken word poet Julie JC Peters and most recently collaborated with award-winning author Carmen Aguirre to adapt her short story Open Fire for performance. Moving further into the realm of word and movement collaboration, Davies combines forces with celebrated storyteller Rosemary Georgeson in Crow’s Nest and Other Places She’s Gone.
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