PuSh Festival presents the Aakash Odedra Company from England with two contemporary dance performances, Inked & Murmur.
Date/Time: Jan 19 2016, 8:00 pm to 9:20 pm
Vancouver, Vancouver PlayhouseCost: $36
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Double your pleasure with two dance performances featuring one of art’s brightest contemporary lights. Heralded as “a highly interesting young creative voice that we should all be watching out for” (theartsdesk.com), Aakash Odedra is an award-winning British contemporary dancer trained in the Indian classical forms of kathak and bharata natyam. In this double bill he uses dance to explore issues that vex us all, focusing on conceptions and misconceptions of identity.
In Inked, created by choreographer Damien Jalet, Odedra evokes the tattoos that his grandmother used to mark herself, creating an identity that was both assertive and protective. With precision and wonderful creativity, the performer shifts shapes and creates symbols with his body, wowing us with nothing more than black ink and his own resources. It’s an enthralling performance, and one not without its share of wit.
In Murmur, his collaboration with choreographer Lewis Major and Ars Electronica Futurelab, Odedra explores his diagnosis of dyslexia using light, sound and movement. Holding our distorted perspective on the “disorder” up to scrutiny, he uses his body to go beyond words and their entrapments. It’s performance as liberation, moving us from the prison of discourse to the freedom of life beyond language.
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