Company 605 (Canada)
PRESENTED WITH THE DANCE CENTRE
This hypnotic work begins with five dancers, each trapped in their own loop of motion and gesture. They change their movement in response to each other, while manipulating the space around them through control of the lighting and electronic sound score. Gradually the performers merge, attempting increasingly complex feats, and with these interactions come new rules, new restrictions, new compromises… By the time the dancers are moving as a group, their multiple obligations—to the lighting, to the sound loops and to each other—are so demanding that they’re working at the brink of impossibility.
In this performance, all is laid bare for the spectator: the audience witnessing a process without an endpoint, sharing the space and energy with the performers. This sense of transparency and community is essential to the meaning of Loop, Lull, which hides behind no narrative except bodies and movement in constant negotiation. It’s about people coping with change together, and all the beauty, vulnerability and risk that entails.
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Artist Bio
Company 605 (Canada)
Vancouver-based Company 605 is dedicated to forging new ground in dance. Fusing contemporary and urban approaches to the art form, the group stresses collaboration; rigorous physicality; and, above all, the exploration of movement and ideas in balance. They have toured over 30 cities across Canada and made waves in Europe, Central America, Australia, and the US.
Venue
677 Davie Street, Vancouver
Showtimes
January 21–22, 28–29
POST-SHOW TALKBACK: Jan 22
75 minutes, no intermission
7PM
Tickets
NOTE: Online tickets are no longer available for Loop, Lull. Tickets maybe be available at the venue box office, one hour before showtime. The passholder allotment has also been reached.
Credits
CREATORS, DIRECTORS Lisa Gelley, Josh Martin, in collaboration with performers PERFORMERS Laura Avery, Francesca Frewer, Bynh Ho, Jessica Wilkie, Sophia Wolfe DRAMATURG Maiko Yamamoto, Anita Rochon LIGHTING DESIGN CONSULTANT James Proudfoot SOUND DESIGNER Matthew Tomkinson TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Jonathan Kim TECHNICAL SUPPORT Jessica Han SUPPORTED BY Canada Council for the Arts, Province of British Columbia through the British Columbia Arts Council, BC Gaming, City of Vancouver
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