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DV AA N CNO UCV E ER I N T E R N A T I O N A L FESTIVAL

Thank you for coming to the first Vancouver International Dance Festival. If this festival is to succeed and continue, it will be through your support and patronage and for that we are very grateful.

Our intention is to put Vancouver on the international map of dance as the place to come to see dance that moves the heart and soul, that stimulates the mind, charges the senses, and stokes the imagination. We thank you for your support and willingness to join us in an adventure of exploration in new worlds of movement expression.

This festival could not have taken place without the support of many hard working individuals and the generosity of many agencies and small businesses. Please look at the Acknowledgments page for a list of these sponsors. We thank the visiting and local dancers who are sharing their talents and knowledge in performances and workshops. We extend our gratitude to a wonderful crew of technicians who have transformed this old warehouse into a house of magic. We appreciate all the help of the volunteers who are managing the front of house duties. We thank the Boards of Directors of Kokoro Dance Theatre Society and the Vancouver International Dance Festival Society for their continuing belief in the value of our work. Special thanks to Ki Wight, Leah Barwick, Michael Whitfield, Kelly Maloney, Gerald King, Robert J. Rosen, and Barbara Bourget.

Jay Hirabayashi Producer

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Festival Schedule FILMS Selected films of butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata at Pacific Cinematheque (A project of Jocelyne Montpetit Danse)

PERFORMANCES October 25 Invitation to Butoh with Yukio Waguri and Jay Hirabayashi (followed by opening night reception) October 26-27 Slipstream performed by Ziyian Kwan and Sumida River performed by Fujiwara Dance Inventions October 28-29, November 2-3, 7-8, 11* X-Roads performed by Kokoro Dance with Parmela Attariwala (violins), Chenoa Anderson (flutes) *November 11 is a gala party event October 31-November 1 Toki hime performed by GooSayTen and Absence of Presence by Tangentz Performance Group November 4-5 Atomic performed by SU-EN and Icône and Transverbero performed by Jocelyne Montpetit Danse November 9-10 Bone of Earth 2 performed by Kohzensha Butoh Company

WORKSHOPS October 24-25 Denise Fujiwara October 26, 27, 28 Yukio Waguri

Acknowledgments Kokoro Dance and the Vancouver International Dance Festival 2000 gratefully acknowledge the support of: FOUNDATIONS AND FUNDING AGENCIES The Dance Section of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Japan-Canada Fund, a gift to the Canada Council from the Government of Japan, the Government of British Columbia through the British Columbia Arts Council, British Columbia Gaming Commission, British Columbia Millennium Fund, the City of Vancouver through the Office of Cultural Affairs, CMHC - Granville Island, the Vancouver Foundation, the Japan Foundation, the Hamber Foundation, the Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation, ArtsFACT, the Arts Foundation to Assist Canadian Talent, a cultural initiative of QM/FM, the National Association of Japanese Canadians Endowment Fund.

BUSINESS AND INDIVIDUAL SPONSORS Act I Theatrical Makeup and Dance Supplies, The Alibi Room, Alan Jones Woodwork, Artrageous, Arts Club Theatre, Ashberry & Logan, Audio Lava, Ballet BC, Balthazar Restaurant/Hideaway, Banyen Books, BC Gelati, Brass Monkey Restaurant, Cabbages & Kinx, Café Il Nido, The Canadian International Dragon Boat Festival Society, Canadian Springs, The Cannery Seafood Restaurant, Christie Lites, Vancouver, CinCin Ristorante, The Coastal Jazz & Blues Society, Cosmoplis, Chris Randle, Dagoli, DanceArts Vancouver, Diane Kadota Arts Management, Dig This, Doll & Penny’s Café, Dutch Girl Chocolates, EDAM, The En Japanese Restaurant, English Bay Eyecare, Envision Optical, Escents Aromatherapy, The Firehall Arts Centre, The Garden Health Foods, Gere Audio, Granville Book Company, Granville Island Brewing, Granville Island Hotel, Harbour Dance Centre, Holiday Inn Downtown (Patrick Ooyevaar and Janice McDonald), Incendio, Joji’s Hair Salon, Kali, Kam’s Singaporean Cuisine, Kaya Kaya, Kinesis Dance, Liliget, Little Sister’s Book & Art Emporium, M.A.C., Mad About Food, Mary B., Mecca, Michael Newton Pottery, Mido Framers, Mondo Gelato International, Naam Restaurant, Oddball, Out to Lunch Caterers, The Pacific Sun Company, Pacific Cinematheque, Patina Salons and Spas, Plan B, Esther Rausenberg, Richmond Sound Design, Romio’s Greek Taverna, Rugby North America, Roseanne Pasco, Sephira Healing Centre, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, Shu Okamoto, Sikora’s Classical Records, Sophia Books, Soressa Gardner, Stepho’s Greek Taverna, Maureen Sugrue, SushiBoy, Swimco for Swimwear, Subeez Café (Benny Deis), The Sylph, Temple of the Modern Girl, Richard Tetrault, Tina Monad, Vancouver Playhouse Theatre, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Ten Fifteen West Sixteenth Avenue Bed & Breakfast, The Pacific Sun Company, The Whip, The William Tell Restaurant, Tulips, Ultra Love Products Ltd., Urban Empire, Vancouver East Cultural Centre, The Vancouver Folk Festival Society, Vancouver International Writer’s Festival, Yogi’s Vegetarian Indian Cuisine.

MEDIA SPONSORS CBC Radio One, CBC Radio Two, The Georgia Straight.

October 30, 31, November 1 Susanna Åkerlund November 3-4 GooSayTen November 6-7 Tangentz Performance Group November 8, 9, 10 Kokoro Dance

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Butoh

Production Credits The Vancouver International Dance Festival is a production of Kokoro Dance Theatre Society and the Vancouver International Dance Festival Society. Both societies are incorporated as non-profit organizations under the Society Act of the Province of British Columbia. Kokoro Dance Theatre Society is registered with Canada Customs and Revenue Agency as a charitable organization (Registration No.: 11898 6777 RR0001).

Producer: Administrative Assistants: Technical Director: Lighting Designer: Sound Designer: Stage Managers: Graphic Designers: Publicist: Volunteer Coordinator:

Jay Hirabayashi Ki Wight, Leah Barwick Kelly Maloney Gerald King Susanne Clampett Kelly Creelman, Sarah O’Brien Ki Wight, Jay Hirabayashi Jeff Rotin Michael Whitfield

Kokoro Dance Board of Directors President: Vice-President: Secretary-Treasurer: Directors at Large:

Heather Hodson Alix Hirabayashi Peter Smith Robyn Allan, Dawn Brennan, Graeme Bristol, Diane Cherney, Patsy Duggan, Yasmine Franchi, Alayne Keough, Yasmine Mehmet, Jonathan Middleton, Esther Rausenberg, George Rosenberg, Marnie Tamaki, Ki Wight

Vancouver International Dance Festival Board of Directors Directors at Large:

Barbara Bourget, Alix Hirabayashi, Jay Hirabayashi, Esther Rausenberg, Ki Wight

Contact Information

The fingertips remained relaxed, although inside they were filled with tension; in the movements of a body attempting to take the form of all things, there was a delicate rhythm that resembled the ebb and flow of the tide; there were stances taken, spaces to pause in which discordances were skilfully brought together; finally, there was a vision of a poisonous devil whose love concealed the darkness within.... What I saw on that stage was a world in which words and things had not yet been differentiated; in short, I beheld the dawn of the world.

Butoh breaks through all verbal definitions and snatches away the audience’s sensibilities to a state of nakedness. Watching it, I suddenly remembered the words of Paul Valéry: “Dance is certainly a sytematized form of action; however [these actions are not motivated by some goal outside of themselves], it is within movement itself that dance attains its perfection. Dance is not going anywhere. Even if it were pursuing something, that goal would be no more than one state, one pleasure; or perhaps the extreme of ecstasy, of life, the peak of existence—its is merely these things that it seeks and nothing more.”

Butoh is like poetry in that it, in its very essence, resists the substitutive function in which words are used to express some thing. In poetry it is the words, in Butoh it is the body—the body’s movement encloses within itself the extreme point which it must seek, while, at the same time, by twisting, jostling, and touching it opens up a unique symbolic space to enfold both the reader and the spectator. Needless to say, within that symbolic space, any explanation which take the form, “this means so-and-so,” becomes meaningless. The order of values which the register has built up so assiduously, turns to nonsense in a moment. It becomes instead a mandala woven from words and resemblances which, as it whirls around, creates correspondences between all things. Even in a world where the loss of the sacred has long since been recognized, to destroy the hierarchical order of values might be seen as the priest who has mastered the Sabbath rituals that invite generation after generation into a thickly entangled world, a world of darkness that our modern age has lost, where the gap between words and things disappears and where existence unfolds before us. ...

Kokoro Dance 1201-207 West Hastings Street Vancouver BC V6B 1H7 tel. (604) 662-7441 fax (604) 662-3886 box office (604) 915-9181 email kokoro@istar.ca Web site http://kokoro.bc.ca

The body of the Butoh dancer regresses to the depths of existence, and by means of cyclical movement reaches the heights. I will, for a time, be guided by their inviting hands, and swim into the depths full of the pungent smell of existence.

Eguchi Osamu (from “My View of Hoppo Butoh-ha”)

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B u t o h ’s O r i g i n s

Ziyian Kwan Slipstream choreography Barbara Bourget

Butoh is a corpse standing straight up in a desperate bid for life Tatsumi Hijikata

CREDITS Choreography: Costume Design: Lighting Design: Music Compilation:

Barbara Bourget Eleanor Hannan Gerald King Jay Hirabayashi (from music by John Cage plus sound effects)

Performer:

Ziyian Kwan

BIOGRAPHIES

Ziyian Kwan lives in Vancouver where she has worked and trained as

a dance artist for the last fourteen years. She has worked extensively with Kokoro Dance since 1991 and has also performed with other Vancouver dance artists including Erasga Projects, Frozen Eye, Kinesis Dance, Lee Su-Feh, and Mascall Dance. In 1998, through a Canada Council individual arts award and support from the British Columbia Arts Council, she commissioned Barbara Bourget to create Slipstream for her. Slipstream has since been performed at the CanAsian Dance Festival in Toronto, at the Dancing on the Edge Festival in Vancouver, and at the Canada Dance Festival in Ottawa. After the Vancouver International Dance Festival, Ziyian looks forward to traveling to Montreal to begin a new creation with David Pressault Dase and then back to Vancouver for the premiere of Bato

by Erasga Projects.

Barbara Bourget is a dancer, choreographer and teacher based in Van-

Photo: Stephen Taylor

couver, BC. With her husband, Jay Hirabayashi, she directs Kokoro Dance, the post-butoh dance company that has been named as one of the ten best reasons to live in Vancouver. Barbara has performed ballet, modern, and butoh dance for the past thirty-five years with companies ranging from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens to experimental modern companies in Vancouver. She has choreographed over eighty dance works for dance, theatre and film. Barbara is a highly respected teacher who has regular classes at Harbour Dance Centre in Vancouver and also taught in the past two years for Ballet British Columbia, Main Dance, and Simon Fraser University. Barbara is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts degree at Simon Fraser University.

Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno

I don’t believe that the body can transform itself, unless it undergoes the fundamental changes of life and death.

The butoh costume is like throwing the cosmos onto one’s shoulders.

And for butoh, while the costume covers the body, it is the body that is the costume of the soul.

Kazuo Ohno

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Gala & Silent Auction

Fujiwara Dance Inventions Sumida River

We are producing this festival with extremely limited means and with great personal financial sacrifice. We trust that you will appreciate the efforts we have made to have these performances delivered with the class they deserve. There are five ways you can help us to produce this festival:

choreography Natsu Nakajima

1. Spread the word about this festival to your friends and encourage them to come.

2. Fill out the contact questionnaire. We want to know how best to contact you next year. By giving us your contact information, you will help us reduce our publicity expenses which will translate into lower ticket prices for you. By filling in the questionnaire, you will also become a voting member of the Vancouver International Dance Festival Society and will have a voice in the future of the festival. The Vancouver International Dance Festival is currently being jointly produced by the Kokoro Dance Theatre Society and the Vancouver International Dance Festival Society.

Once the festival is firmly established, it will be operated solely by the Vancouver International Dance Festival Society.

There will be a draw on November 11 for one 2001 Festival Pass from all those that fill out the questionnaire.

Please only fill out one form.

CREDITS Choreography: Costume Design: Lighting Design: Music Compilation: Set Design: Set Construction: Production Coordinator: Rehearsal Director: Technical Director: Touring Technical Director: Administration:

Natsu Nakajima Natsu Nakajima, Michiko Nakamura, Cheryl Lalonde Roelof Peter Snippe Natsu Nakajima Michiko Nakamura Cheryl Lalonde Cheryl Lalonde Elizabeth Langley Roelof Peter Snippe Aisling Sampson Dance Umbrella of Ontario

4. Attend the November 11 Gala Party. The tickets to this event are $50 but in addition to a command performance of Kokoro Dance’s X-Roads, you will receive a $25 tax deductible receipt, delicious food from Subeez Cafe and SushiBoy, beverages, music to dance to, and the satisfaction of knowing you are a special patron of the arts.

Performer:

Denise Fujiwara

5. Give a donation to Kokoro Dance Theatre Society. Donors will receive a tax deductible receipt.

BIOGRAPHIES

3. Bid on items in our Silent Auction. You can up the previous bid to try and get the item or you can place a guaranteed bid. The guaranteed bid means that you are automatically the top bidder and will receive the item. The Silent Auction ends after the Gala Performance on November 11 and all winners will be contacted.

Natsu Nakajima, choreographer of

Sumida River, was born on Sakhalien in 1943. She trained in classical ballet before studying modern dance with Masami Kuni.

At 19, she entered the Kazuo Ohno Dance Institute and only one year later became a founding member of the first Butoh dance activity with the late Tatsumi Hijikata.

In 1969, Natsu Nakajima formed the Muteki-Sha Dance Company, acting as director as well as independent choreographer and teacher. Her active workshop and performance career has taken her throughout North America, Australia, Asia and Europe. In 1988, she received a fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council to study in the United States and in 1989, received support from the Saison Foundation to present her work at La Mama in New York City.

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Denise Fujiwara, one of the most diverse talents to evolve on the Canadian dance scene, is a choreographer, dancer,

actor and teacher. Her solo dance concerts, Spontaneous Combustion, Vanishing Acts and Elle Laments have won her critical and audience acclaim from Vancouver to Halifax. She is currently working on a fifth solo concert which will feature her own work as well as the choreography of two of Canada’s most brilliantly idiosyncratic choreographers, Tedd Robinson and Peter Chin.

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Ta n g e n t z P e f o r m a n c e G r o u p Absence of Presence

Kokoro Dance X-Roads

choreography Lori Ohtani

choreography Barbara Bourget and Jay Hirabayashi CREDITS Choreography: Music: Lighting: Sound Designer: Costumes: Rehearsal Assistant: Dancers: Musicians:

Barbara Bourget and Jay Hirabayashi Robert J. Rosen (Robert makes reference to a 16th Century motet by the English composer William Byrd entitled “Ave verum corpus.”) and improvisational creativity by Parmela Attariwala and Chenoa Anderson Gerald King Susanne Clampett Tammy Maltese Michael Whitfield Ingmar Bergsma, Barbara Bourget, Salomé Diaz, Sara Dorsey, Jay Hirabayashi, Stephen Jeong, Paulina Kee, Ziyian Kwan, Jerry Longboat, Jennifer McKinley, Jennifer Murray, Kristine Richmond, Janna-Jo Scheunhage Parmela Attariwala, Chenoa Anderson

BIOGRAPHIES

Kokoro Dance was formed in 1986 by Barbara Bourget and Jay Hirabayashi. The company

performs frequently in Vancouver and has toured across Canada, to Europe and to the United States. Jay and Barbara have choreographed over a hundred dance works in the twenty-one years they have worked and lived together.

Robert J. Rosen and Gerald King have been close collaborators in most of Kokoro Dance’s productions.

Robert currently teaches and administrates at the Mount Royal College Conservatory of Music in Calgary. His compositions have been performed by symphonies, chamber music ensembles, and soloists across Canada and in Europe and the U.S. Gerald King’s designs have graced the stages of major theatre, opera, and dance companies in Canada and the United States.

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CREDITS Choreographer:

Lori Ohtani, with additional choreographic movements by Dan Hermon, Gary Higashida, Tsugumi Iwasaki-Higbee, and Steve Novak

Music:

Section I: Shoko Hikage, Brett Larner, and Phillip Gelb Section II: Yamantaka Eye, Aphex Section IIi: Yamantaka Eye, Sun Ra Section IV: Kronos Quartet, Dancing Stone, DJ Kensei Section V: Palais royal de Yogyakarta, Aphex Gerald King Tsugumi Iwasaki Higbee, and Lori Ohtani Dan Hermon, Gary Higashida, Tsugumi-Iwasaki Higbee, Steve Novak, Lori Ohtani

Lighting Design: Costumes: Performers:

This piece was originally inspired by a feature story in Time magazine (TIME:May 29th issue-Memorial Day Special Issue “How we Remember” by Roger Rosenblatt). This story incorporated an interesting background on the concept and construction of the most recent Memorial that was built for the Oklahoma City Bombimg victims.

I was deeply moved and realized how recollection and memory of a loss can have a profound effect on one’s physical condition. This unseen presence can eat away at the core of one’s existence causing one to enter into a stage of metamorphic change. In this work I have delved into this concept of loss by utilizing the basic structure of personal memory analysis which incorporates perception, storage, retrieval, processing, and an additional transitional state of atonement.

BIOGRAPHY Lori Ohtani was originally trained as a visual artist,

receiving a B.F.A. in painting and sculpture from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. As an abstract artist with a background in modern and jazz dance, she was drawn to the strongly visual improvisation of butoh dance. She began dancing butoh in 1989 and acted as assistant director and principle dancer with Iona Pear Dance Theater for four years before forming Tangenz.

She has taken workshops with noted butoh masters Akira Photo: Franco Salmoiraghi Kasai, Mitsutaka Ishii, Koichi Tamano, Katsura Kan, Yumiko Yoshioka, Anzu Furukawa, and Maureen Fleming, and in Japan, with butoh founder Kazuo Ohno. Both as a solo performer, and with Tangentz, she has performed in Hawaii, on the mainland U.S. and in Canada and was most recently featured at the 1999 San Francisco Butoh Festival.

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G o o S a y Te n Toki Hime

Kohzensha Butoh Company Bone of Earth II

choreography Itto Morita

choreography Yukio Waguri

CREDITS CREDITS

Choreography: Music:

Itto Morita Sound: Watalu Sasaki

Dancers:

Itto Morita and Mika Takeuchi

Toki is a Japanese crested ibis, Niponia Nippon, on the verge of extinction. In “Toki Hime”, Princess Toki, Duo Butoh evocators drift across subconscious terrain, dreaming a Toki’s scarlet dream as a princess of the old good Japan; a tenacious dream of lost kingdom’s legendary metamorphosis and madness.

BIOGRAPHIES Itto Morita joined the Butoh

dance troupe “Kobuzoku Arutai” in 1988 as a butoh dancer- psychologist in order to study mind-body relationship through Butoh, and founded GooSayTen with Mika Takeuchi in 1995, Sapporo, Japan.

He has lead workshops of Butoh dance method in Russia, Ukraine, U.S.A., Germany, and Poland.

Mika Takeuchi, GooSayTen

Butoh dancer, has also performed as a solo/guest butoh dancer. In 1997, She performed for the Jordan International Dance Festival. This summer, she danced with Semimaru (Sankaijuku) and Daisuke Yoshimoto, and performed for “Earth Celebration” held by Kodo in Sado Island. She practices Relaxation method and Dance Therapy as day-care programs of a mental clinic. Special thanks to Seiji Yamagishi for his photo-art.

Choreography:

Yukio Waguri

Music: Lighting Design Costumes

Maseru Soga Maseru Soga Kaori Taniguchi

Dancers:

Yukio Waguri, Asuka Shimada

Bone of Earth II is a dance piece integrating Tatsumi Hijikata’s butoh history of 30 years that began with primitive wildness and shifted into the world of stillness. The piece starts with a wild beast’s dance full of vitality, moves into a graceful but funny dance of delicacy, then into a dance of insanity that consists only of nerve and the sense of touch, and goes to the end with a dance of a weakened body which collapses, breaks, and is going to die. It is like the four seasons in Japan changing from Spring of Life to Winter of Death.

BIOGRAPHY Yukio Waguri became a disciple of Tatsumi Hijikata in 1972 and made

his debut as a butoh dancer in 27 Nights for Four Seasons. After eight years with Hijikata, he left dance for aperiod of five years to become an Edo-Komon (kimono dyer). In 1985, he returned to dance in Hijikata’s last work, the Tohoku Kabuki project. In 1990, he organized his butoh company Kohzensha.

In 1998, he released the CD-ROM Butoh Kaden produce by Justsystem.

Butoh Kaden is a comprehensive analysis of Hijikata’s choreographic methods.

In 1998, his solo performance Bone of Earth was created commemorating the 13th anniversary of Hijikata’s death.

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SU-EN Atomic

Jocelyne Montpetit Danse Icône and Transverbero

choreography SU-EN

choreography Jocelyne Montpetit CREDITS Icône

Choreography: Lighting and Visual Concept: Music: Music Consultant: Costumes: Rehearsal Director:

Choreography/dance: Music: Light/spacial concept: Spatial concept/costume: Sound operator, stage manager:

Jocelyne Montpetit Axel Morgenthaler Louis Andriessen Alain Thibault Issey Miyake Geneviève Lechasseur

ATOMIC - a radiant celebration -

Transverbero - Pierced Through From All Sides Choreography: Lighting: Sound Editing: Direction: Costumes: Music:

SU-EN Edvard Graham Lewis Svante Wärnsberg SU-EN Frans Olsson

Jocelyne Montpetit Axel Morgenthaler Jocelyne Montpetit Studio Créason Jocelyne Montpetit Renata Tebaldi, La Wally; H. Gorecki, Symphony No. 3; Sviridov

Both works performed by Jocelyne Montpetit

ATOMIC is a dance of joy investigating the smallest particles. Forces stronger than we can imagine is awaiting.

- how to define life? body is matter - sound is matter light is matter - space is matter matter is anti-matter movement is stillness stillness is explosion - a radiant celebration -

BIOGRAPHIES

Jocelyne Montpetit’s artistic development has been

a series of revelatory and fruitful meetings with the great contemporary masters of the performing arts, taking her from the United States to France and Poland, and culminating with her experience in Japan. Her work is distinguished by the multiplicity of cultural influences that she has assimilated and integrated into her own world—an evermore daring exploration of love, death, libido, childhood, repressed memory, desire, fear, and the return to the sources of being. Many of her works have been presented in canada and abroad. She has been in charge of the Movement Section of the National Theatre School of Canada since September 1995.

Axel Morgenthaler has done the lighting in Photo: Guy Borremans

Sounds for the music has partly been recorded at the accelerator particle research center in Uppsala.

BIOGRAPHY

Photo: Mariin Fromell

SU-EN (Susanna Åkerlund) was a student of Tomoe Shizune & Hakutobo during the years 1988-1993 and a member of the student group ‘Gnome’. In 1992, SU-EN Butoh Company was founded and the first performance ‘Kaze no Cho’ took place at Tiny Alice in tokyo under the guidance of Tomoe Shizue & Hakutobo. After moving back to Sweden, she began the process of of developing a Scandinavian butoh body. SU-EN is based in an old school in the forest north of Stockholm. With different projects SU-EN tours all over Sweden and has also performed in Russia, Cqech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Canada, and the United States.

works by Édouard Lock, Ginette Laurin, Marie Chouinard, Stephen Petronio, and Jose Navas. He is actively experimenting with new technologies and their application to the performing arts.

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