2020 Vancouver International Dance Festival: Modus Operandi

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Cost: Free

Line, Starting line, Practical questions, Disappear, Solos and small groups, Swirling, Space, All together

Made and sustained by Alanna Kraaijeveld in collaboration with Modus Operandi artists and Kate Franklin, Line, Starting line, Practical questions, Disappear, Solos and small groups, Swirling, Space, All together is a scored improvised performance. It is comprised of an inventory of relational, movement, visual and textural possibilities. As a work, it practically manifests shifting perspectives, disappearance or invisibility, rhythm as a motor for dynamic possibility, as well a spectrum of intentional engagement.
Our process made use of traditional choreographic (a pre-determined sequence of dance movements), and improvisational approaches ( “… [when we improvise] the selections we have made affect the selections we will make.”) (Nachmanovitch, Stephen).
Alanna Kraaijeveld is a contemporary dance artist who has been active in the milieu for 15 years. She toured internationally with Dave St-Pierre, one of Canada’s most sought-after choreographers, in productions Un peu de tendresse bordel de merde and Foudres. From 2004-2008 she was a company dancer of Le Groupe Dance Lab, an international centre for choreographic research, under the direction of Order of Canada recipient Peter Boneham. Alanna is a close student of Linda Kapetanea and Jozef Frucek, developers of Fighting Monkey Practice.
Her emergent choreographic practice is focused on improvisation and site-centered performance. She is fascinated by person-to-person and person-and-environment relationships, and their potential to motivate intention, movement and meaning within the dynamic structure improvisation provides.
As performer, creator, teacher and improvisor, Kraaijeveld’s collaborations have been diverse and numerous. Artists and organizations include Marie Claire Forté, Modus Operandi, École supérieure d’art dramatique (Paris), Justine Chambers, Yves Charuest, Company 605, Studio 303, Stella Adler Studio of Acting (NYC), Opéra de Québec, William Parker, Louise Bédard, Frédérick Gravel, among others.


Sun 08 March 2:00 PM & 3:00 PM
Sun 15 March 3:00 PM
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