2019 VIDF: Manuel Roque
bang bang is a personal—and therefore universal—contemporary ritual that allows the body to express itself at its most combative and desperate, at its most free
Date/Time: Mar 13 2019, 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm
Vancouver, Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre | Event calendar181 Roundhouse Mews
P: (604) 713-1800
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Cost: $35.00
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A present-day study about surpassing oneself, bang bang is a stage creation for a kamikaze soloist that has resistance as a theme. The work follows a score that is also an ordeal. It both literally and figuratively questions the notion of performance, from the space of representation to the metaphors of our contemporary Western pace of life.
"Manuel Roque dances wonderfully and seems to have reached (…) an absolute mastery of his own body and a rare ability to exploit all of its possibilities." - Philippe Couture, Voir (Montreal)
Don't forget, award-winning dancer-choreographer Manuel Roque is teaching a Master Class on technicality, full attention – to the self, the other and the environment – and kinaesthetic identity on March 16!
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