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Created by Kathryn Ricketts
Performed by Kathryn Ricketts & Julia Nolan with digital imagery by Bob Pritchard
Saturday, February 27, 2010, 8:00 P.M. & 8:45 P.M. - free
Shaw Tower Courtyard,1077 West Cordova, Vancouver, (Thurlow and Cordova)
Kathryn Ricketts brings over thirty years of dance/theatre performance to this rich interdisciplinary event.
Live music and digital imagery fold into the poetic images Ricketts creates with her character LUG. An overcoat that pulls 30 suitcases on its trail, defines the path of the single visitor among many. The arrival involves shedding the weight of this journey only to reveal the secrets within one solitary suitcase.
This performance is the story of one among many…….
The production team
Produced by: Springboard Performance, containR
Photographers: Ernie Stelzer
Film Crew: Phil Byrne & Adriana Byrne
Dramaturg: Lynn Fels
Costume Design: Taryn Makinen
Set Consultation: Hanif Jan Mohammed
Vounteers: Paul Henrik Borup-Jorgensen, Lorraine White-Wilkinson, Shannon Lange
Thanks to: SFU Theatre, Paul Gibbs, Rolf Cutts
ContainR
A convergence of art, ideas and technology in a nomadic gallery.
www.containR.com
to LUG:
ReplyDeleteAt first I assumed you were telling a story of the weight and impediment of ownership - alllllll those suitcases you were straining to pull along with you. But then, all that frenzy of global action... Maybe this was the story of one who sold everything and went traveling around the world! Could that explain the shipping container? But having the world in your teeth...? I couldn't make much of that at the time. Thinking back on it, perhaps that is part of the excess consumerism again. Okay, the earth's feeling the pinch!
As for your performance, I think you did a great job as a dancer. I felt your movements were strong and lithe and nicely occupied your space. The image of you reaching is still with me. The drabness of the set and costume showed off the colours of the flags and the vibrancy of your movements. Excellent contrast.
In this dance performance, I enjoyed the fact that we got to follow the dancer and the saxophonist through the shipping container. The performance made me think of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic experience where it did not matter where in the world you were from - ie. what flag you represented - you were welcome and able to join in the wonderful energy at the venues and on the streets. That which divides us as nations, represented in the multitude of country flags that tumbled out of the suitcase, was countered by the image of the globe which serves to unite us as one global entity. The sense of harmony, respect, and togetherness that I witnessed at the 2010 Olympics, are things I hadn't expected to experience. I think it is so unique to experience such a massive international event where you live.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I have seen a few versions of Lug before, I found that the location of this particular performance enhanced and shaped further my enjoyment of it. The industrial container, the concrete courtyard, the massive, imposing architecture, made the performer--the immigrant, appear even more vulnerable and heroic as she tried to pull the weight of her memories and travels along with her. Also, within the physical and conceptual context of hundreds of people from all over the world, gathering, shouting, singing in the courtyard, her suitcase full of countries, spilling out into that courtyard added a poetic dimension that added to the magic of the Olympics. Thank you for this.
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