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Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Mount Elizabeth Theatre
8:00 PM
the response
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR l AMBER FUNK BARTON
BIOGRAPHY l AMBER FUNK BARTON
artistic director + choreographer
Born and raised in Vancouver, Amber received her training with Goh Ballet Academy, Arts Umbrella, The Banff Centre Dance Training and Ballet British Columbia’s Mentor Programme. Upon completion of her training, she decided to establish herself as a professional dance artist in Vancouver and has danced for various companies and choreographers, such as Joe INK, LINK dance, Judith Marcuse Projects, Lola Dance, Marta Marta House of Pride, Mascall Dance, MovEnt, Battery Opera, Karen Jamieson Dance Company, MOVE: the company, Ruckus Company Productions, Mark Godden, Dana Gingras, Marla Eist, Jennifer Clarke, Emily Molnar, Wen Wei Wang, Cori Caulfield and Lina Fitzner. Recently, she has also worked as a guest artist with the 605 Collective and will be featured in Heart as Arena, a new full length work by Danas Gingras (Animals of Distinction).
As an emerging choreographer Amber has had her work presented in various venues around the city, she is quickly building a reputation for athletic hybrid movement. In 2005, Amber was named the inaugural recipient of the Iris Garland Emerging Choreographer Award which led to her first production, Threefold (co-produced with The Dance Centre). She followed with 5ive solos later…, an evening of commissioned and choreographed solos (presented by The Firehall Arts Centre). In 2006, Amber was presented internationally by the Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff (Wales) of her thirdproduction, Thrice. In the same year, she also received the extreme privilege of being awarded a danceWEB scholarship to train in Vienna, Austria at the ImPulsTanz Dance Festival. She also was an Artist-in-Residence at The Dance Centre for the 2006-2007 season where she created the first draft performance of RISK, of which she was awarded the 2007 Holy Body Tattoo Emerging Artist Award.
Amber can also be found teaching for Drive Dance Centre’s Scholarship Program and Harbour Dance, teaching a fusion of contemporary, ballet, jazz and improvisation techniques to encourage the rigor of technical training, the curiosity of personal expression and to feed her own choreographic process. In 2008, Amber established her own Vancouver based contemporary dance company, the response., a project-to-project company that will seek to challenge the form of classical and contemporary technique with the energy, dynamic and precision of an urban aesthetic. the response. was officially launched during the premiere of RISK December 2008 at the Firehall Arts Centre.
During 2009, Amber focused on the creation of two new works for her company: Hero & Heroine, a duet for a man and a women (premiering July 2010) and Sirens a women’s quartet which will be developed into the next full length work for the response. December 2011.
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