Push Festival 2020: Dana Michel (canada) - Cutlass Spring
The audacious and original works of Montreal-based dance artist Dana Michel have earned international attention and prestigious awards including the Jardin d’Europe Award at ImPulsTanz, and the Silver Lion for Innovation in Dance at the Venice Biennale
Date/Time: Feb 8 2020, 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Vancouver, The Dance Centre | Event calendar677 Davie St
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Cost: $37.00
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Presented with The Dance Centre
“Michel’s entrancing and determined weirdness [is] engrossing… [Her] aptitude in using her body as metaphor, and in integrating objects into her world, is astonishing.” - Cult MTL
Dana Michel gives us all she can in this subversive, achingly personal show. Using physical choreography, vocal contortions and some truly outré symbolism, she enacts a psychological excavation onstage. Her goal is to investigate herself as a performer, a daughter, a mother and many other things—including and especially as a sexual being.
The mise-en-scène is minimal, and the use of costumes, props and sound effects is unconventional to say the least. Crawling, writhing and crying out before us, Michel seeks to reinvent the idea of communication for herself; there’s much in the performance that is deeply private, but the sexual assertion, the expression of anguish and the defiant feminism are clear as day. Audiences are free to laugh, to gawk, to be scared, to empathize; the work is open to a generous range of interpretations and responses. All that’s required is curiosity, courage and a sense of adventure; they will be amply rewarded.
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