Light and Metal features two separate performances, Surge by Movent, and bANGER byTara Cheyenne Performance
Friday, October 30, 2009
Mount Elizabeth Theatre
8:00 PM
From websites:
SURGE
A construct of bold movement, industrial sounds
cape and electric emotion,SURGE scrutinizes the power of physical industry. Moving hard and intensely in a constant current of fierce physicality, five dancers discover what powers them and what gives them power. Through dogged determination and enduring effort SURGE discovers the costs and rewards of that power, in all it's incarnations.
The inspiraon for SURGE came from an idea of power -- the physical power held within the muscles, bones and spirit of the body, but also the power that one body, one being can hold over another. This collision of people and power is where SURGE resides.
Choreographer, Day Helesic
Choreography: Day Helesic
Original Music: Gordon Cobb
Lighting Design: Alan Brodie
Technical Direction: Derek Mack
Stage Management: Jessica Chambers
Production Management: Julie-anne Saroyan
With performances by Amber Funk Barton, Farley Johansson, Yannick Matthon, Meredith Kalaman, Jessica Fletcher
Duration: 60 minutes
bANGER
We all remember that guy from hi
gh school: Black Sabbath pouring from his headphones, draped in standard army-issue clothing. Not much of a talker. You may have made fun of him or, at best, ignored him. In bANGER, Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg sheds some light on this social reject and reconciles the differences between us and him.
In this latest dance-theatre hybrid created by the ever-morphing Friedenberg, the audience is reeled through the fast-paced, painful world of high school as seen through the eyes of Ivan, a young man driven to find out how he fits in. Through heavy music, a lot of head-banging and a smidge of angst-ridden poetry, we are given a glimpse of the survival techniques of a boy on the verge of self-discovery.
In bANGER, Friedenberg reels through the fast-paced world of a young man's painful and driven effort to find a place of his own in the dog eat dog world of high school. She delves carefully into a boy's developing mind, dodging and regrouping from the daggers, grenades and weaponry his external existence shoot recklessly at him. Where does the sharp disapproving laughter of teenage girls take a young man in his vulnerable state of growth? Behind the 8 ball from the get go, Friedenberg's bANGER explores his options in the straitjacketed world of the otherness of geekdom. From the perspective of a thirty-something woman, Friedenberg works beyond caricature with a graceful blend of humour and sincere compassion to explore her character's options within the otherness of being a social reject.
Throughout, bANGER demonstrates what Friedenberg does best: tell an engaging story steeped in her character-driven work, through a playful mix of movement and text. A stellar score by composer Marc Stewart and rock-star lighting design by James Proudfoot strongly accents the work and brings it full-throttle into heavy-metaldom.
Last Updated on Tuesday, 29 September 2009 20:17