2006 VIDF Program

BOX OFFICE (604) 662-4966

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To order tickets for Roundhouse shows, please call the VIDF box office at 604.662.4966 or visit http://vidf.ca Adult: $25.00 Seniors/Students, Non-profit arts worker, Kokoro Dance member, New Works dance card: $18.00

PASSES (non-transferable) 2 shows ($20/show) $40.00 7 shows ($15/show) $105.00

GROUP RATE 8 or more people:

4 shows ($17.50/show) $70.00 20 shows ($10/show) $200 $15.00 per person

VAN O U ER CULTC URAV AS L CEE NTRT E TICKETS To order tickets for the Kidd Pivot shows, please call 604.251.1363 or 604.280.3311 or visit: http://vecc.bc.ca or http://ticketmaster.ca.

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VECC subscription rate of $22/$15 available to VIDF pass holders at the door before 7:30pm.

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To order tickets for the Ruckus Dance Company shows, please call the Centennial Theatre box office at 604.984.4484 Adult/Students/Seniors $25 Groups of 10 or more $22.50/each Groups of 50 or more $20/each Centennial discount rate of $20 for VIDF pass holders.

MEMBERSHIP - $2.00

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We have joined other festivals such as the Vancouver International Film Festival and the Dancing on the Edge Festival in instituting a membership policy to help us develop a sustaining patron base. After filling out a contact info form and paying an annual $2 fee, patrons become VIDF Society members with voting privileges. VIDF members are given a button that allows entry to the performing areas at the Roundhouse Community Centre. Memberships enable us to communicate to VIDF patrons more efficiently and will help us to lower our overhead costs in the future. By becoming a member of the VIDF Society, you will give us great encouragement to continue producing this festival. VIDF membership is not a requirement for the performances at the Centennial Theatre and Vancouver East Cultural Centre.

Vancouver International Dance Festival Society 339 West Hastings St., 2nd Floor Vancouver, BC V6B1H6 tel. 604.662.7441 fax. 604.662.3886 email. info@vidf.ca 3

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ROUNDHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTRE 181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver, BC

The majority of the performances, and the art and photography exhibitions take place at the Roundhouse Community Centre. The Roundhouse Community Centre is located on the former Expo site at the corner of Davie & Pacific. If you’re walking from Granville Street, head east five blocks down Davie. Underground pay parking is available (access off Drake): $1/hour ($5 maximum) and $2 after 6 pm.

VAN O U ER CULTC URAV AST L CEE N TRE http://vecc.bc.ca 1895 Venables Street, Vancouver, BC

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http://centennialtheatre.com 2300 Lonsdale Ave, North Vancouver, BC

HARB OUR D A CENT RE NCE http://harbourdance.com 927 Granville St - 3rd Floor, Vancouver, BC

SCOTI ABAN DANC K E CEN TRE http://thedancecentre.ca 677 Davie Street, Vancouver, BC

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http://edamdance.org 303 East 8th Avenue, Vancouver, BC

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MEDIA SPONSORS FOUNDATIONS & FUNDING AGENCIES

COMMUNITY & INDIVIDUAL SPONSORS

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Alex Novicic Alvin Erasga Tolentino Amir Ali Alibhai Ashley Spires of Chicken Tika Austin Cooke Bad Girl Chocolates Ballet British Columbia Barb Clausen of New Works Bard on the Beach Benny Deis of Subeez Café Blue Water Café Carrie and Danielle Chris Randle Christie Lights Clancy Dennehy Clearwater Seafood Ltd Partnership Coastal Jazz & Blues Society

Colleen Lumb of Works in Colour Cru Restaurant Duncan Low of Vancouver East Cultural Centre Elizabeth Kidd Elizabeth Steele Eric Allen Montgomery of Accentric c.d.c.

Erin Dolman of Holy Crow Designs Erin Neligan Esther Rausenberg Femke van Delft Flower Factory Gary Maier & Leslie Poole Gerald King Hapa Izakaya Harbour Dance Centre Heavenly Soul

Hope Yoga Holiday Inn & Suites— Vancouver Downtown Ivan Duben Jasna Sokolovic of Art + Designs Jenny Yen of Hylas & Nymph Jeremy Baxter Joan Quintin of enQ Designs Joanne Thomas of Joanne B. Thomas Designs Joseph Hirabayashi Karen Everall Katherine McLean Kelly Grant Kersten Tatham Laura Bartlett Katherine Soucie of Sans Soucie Lajla Nuhic

Imperial Tobacco Canada Ltd. Hamber Foundation Larisa Fayad Les Amis du Fromage LK Dining Lounge MAC Makeup Mainstage Margo Gram of Centennial Theatre Maria Cirod Melissa Ferreira of Adhesif Clothing Michael Whitfield Mike Inwood Mirna Zagar of the Dance Centre Naomi Macey of Illuminatti Ocean 6 Seventeen Pam Quick Rosa & Danielle Clifford of Harbour Dance Pascale Thibodeau Paul Furminger

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

FESTIVAL PARTNERS

CORPORATE SPONSORS

Province of British Columbia

Peter Bingham & Mona Hamill of EDAM Peter Eastwood of Peter Eastwood Photography Philip Seth of Circule 8 Exercise Studio Purdy’s Chocolates Queen Victoria Hotel and Suites Richard Tetrault Saori Yamamoto of Twinkets Scott Belway Sequoia Company of Restaurants Stanley Park HorseDrawn Tours Surya Govender of Found Out Productions Suzanne Nairne The Beat 94.5 FM

Ten Fifteen West Sixteenth Avenue Bed & Breakfast Thomas Anfield Todd Woffinden Tom McPhearson Tomato Fresh Food Café Trudy Winans of Toodlebunny Designs TW Productions Vancouver Art Gallery Vancouver Opera Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Victoria Dance Series Woof Gang Yasmine Mehmet Yukiko Onley Zoe McDougall

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Photo by Peter Eastwood

Barbara Bourget

Jay Hirabayashi

PRODUCERS’ NOTE

One of our aims in producing the Vancouver International Dance Festival is to build continuing relationships with our guest artists in addition to initiating new ones. We open the festival with Koichi Tamano & Harupin-Ha, a company whose performance in Vancouver twenty-six years ago inspired us to eventually form our own butoh company. One of the standout performances we saw at last summer’s Montpellier Dance Festival in France was Compagnie Aurélia – Rita Cioffi and we are thrilled to present their North American premiere performances here. Nadine Thouin from Montreal is a petite but powerful woman whose palpable energy told us right away that we wanted to see her dance on our stage. At the 2000 VIDF, Denise Fujiwara performed a mesmerizing Noh Theatre inspired piece by butoh pioneer Natsu Nakajima. She returns this year with another butoh exploration of a famous Noh play, this time choreographed by Yukio Waguri who also performed here in 2000. After creating a duet with Crystal Pite at last year’s VIDF, Peter Bingham looks this year to further develop a female quartet that saw its first exploration with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra at the 2004 VIDF. Battery opera also performed with the VSO as well as assailing our senses with Bob’s Lounge. They are storming back this year to once again share their “structured insanity” with us. We are excited as well this year to co-produce with the Centennial Theatre, a new Vancouver dance company called Ruckus Dance lead by tap virtuoso Brock Jellison who blew us away at the 2004 VIDF. With the cream of Vancouver’s hip hop/tap/and jazz dancers and a live rock band, 77 Minutes will knock your socks off. To celebrate our 20th year in dance, we are performing one of our most celebrated works, Sunyata—a two and a half hour journey from the static to the ecstatic. Capping the festival is the Vancouver East Cultural Centre production of 2006 Alcan Award winner Crystal Pite’s Kidd Pivot. What better way to end a month of dance than to watch one of the world’s hottest choreographers mix it up with six other amazing dancers?

We welcome you to the 2006 Vancouver International Dance Festival!

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Choreography: Koichi Tamano Performers: Koichi Tamano, Hiroko Tamano, Aya Irizuki, Hiroko Sadamori

ROUNDHOUSE MARCH 7 & 8 - 8PM

Koichi Tamano & Harupin-Ha Butoh Dance Theater (Japan/USA)

“We work from imagery and emotion, never trying to initiate movement without first feeling something in the guts.” – Koichi Tamano Koichi and Hiroko Tamano visited Vancouver in 1980 and gave a performance that was the seed that sprouted Kokoro Dance in 1986. Koichi Tamano was butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata’s principal male dancer and he was called by him his “bow-legged Nijinsky.” A Harupin-Ha performance is an elemental but elegant, enigmatic but electric, timeless but transformative experience of the original butoh expression by a company that links butoh’s past, present, and future. http://harupin-ha.org

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Massacre du printemps Conception: Rita Cioffi Performed by: Rita Cioffi & Claude Bardouil Images: Roberto Savoca Lighting: Thierry Lenain

ROUNDHOUSE MARCH 9&10 - 8PM

Compagnie Aurélia - Rita Cioffi (France)

Shopping Conception: Rita Cioffi Performed by: Rita Cioffi & Claude Bardouil Music by: Sylvain Duigou Lighting: Grégory Auzuech Irreverence, when delivered with humour and visceral charm, is cathartic. For her North American premiere performances, Rita Cioffi brings two gems from her choreographic research in Montpellier, France. Massacre du printemps is not Nijinsky and Stravinsky nor is Shopping what you might expect. These works are both familiar and strange bi-lingual explorations of our funny bones. http://compagnieaurelia.free.fr

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STOP… Direction and choreography: Nadine Thouin Performer: Nadine Thouin Original music: Blake Hargreaves Musicians: Blake Hargreaves & Liam Thurston Video: Nadine Thouin & Namaï Kham Po Lighting: Michael Brunet

ROUNDHOUSE MARCH 11&12 - 8PM

Go-On Productions Nadine Thouin (Montreal)

Nadine Thouin’s body is hard-wired to some invisible but potent power source. It’s as if she is connected to an enormous hydro-electric dam behind which lies a huge pool of emotions waiting to be transformed into motion. Audiences get a chance to zoom closer to her throbbing heart through video eyes that stare into her eyes, slide down her throat, penetrate her underbelly, feel her guts. Nadine named her company Go-On and named this piece Stop. The contradiction in directions indicates that Stop is an illusion. http://go-on.ca

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Komachi Choreography: Yukio Waguri Performer: Denise Fujiwara Music: Soga Masaru, George Gao, Ganesh Anandan, Malcolm Goldstein, Toru Takemitsu Costume and Set Design: Yukio Waguri Lighting: Roelof Peter Snippe Dramaturg: Elizabeth Langley

ROUNDHOUSE MARCH 14&15 - 8PM

Fujiwara Dance Inventions (Toronto)

Yukio Waguri, like Koichi Tamano before him, was a principal dancer with butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata. For Denise Fujiwara, he has choreographed a potent work about a legendary Japanese poet, Ono no Komachi, who was gifted, beautiful, but also cruel to her many suitors. It is said that in her old age she lived as a hermit on a mountain, quite mad but with spells of brilliant lucidity. This dance is an imagistic invention of Komachi. In her old age, long after her beauty has faded, she dreams the memories of a decadent youth and is haunted by the ghosts of her past cruelties. http://fujiwaradance.com

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An EDAM production in association with the Vancouver International Dance Festival Slip Choreography: Peter Bingham Performers: Delia Brett, Anne Cooper, Ali Robson, and Monica Strelkhe Music score: Peter Bingham and Tony Gort Lighting: James Proudfoot

ROUNDHOUSE MARCH 16,17,18 - 7PM

EDAM (Vancouver)

It takes focus and attention and an ability to improvise to avoid slipping into disequilibrium in life. The same goes for Peter Bingham’s dance for four women challenged by a labyrinth of checks and balances, freedoms and restrictions.

Years of training in the art of attention to the moment will be put to the test in this dance for Delia Brett, Anne Cooper, Ali Robson, and Monica Strelkhe. One moment of distraction or loss of focus could result in a disastrous slip in this dance where the speed of the dancers’ reactions to Peter’s choreography determines whether they land on their feet or fall from a state of grace. http://edamdance.org 19 Photo by Chris Randle

[storm] Creators: Lee Su-Feh and David McIntosh Choreography and direction: Lee Su-Feh Text and music: David McIntosh Performers: Ron Stewart, Lee Su-Feh, David McIntosh, Max Murphy Lighting: James Proudfoot Dramaturgy: DD Kugler

ROUNDHOUSE MARCH 16,17,18 - 9PM

battery opera (Vancouver)

Since winning the Alcan Award in 2003, battery opera’s David McIntosh and Lee Su-Feh have tossed and turned a piece originally titled Cyclops into [storm]. Refining but not taming this turbulent meditation on the aching loneliness of being human, [storm] uses archetypes drawn from man’s relationship with the sea to delineate a history of man that is at once sacred and profane, cruel and tender. [storm] locates the transformation of the ordinary into the emblematic, and the mundane into the symbolic. [storm] celebrates the power and frailty of the human body that breathes, speaks, sings, thinks, moves, dances.

A ticket to this performance includes a libation from Storm Brewery.

http://batteryopera.com http://gypsymermaid.com/stormbrewing.html Photo by Andrew Querner

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Kokoro Dance (Vancouver) ROUNDHOUSE MARCH 21-25- 8PM

Sunyata Choreography: Barbara Bourget & Jay Hirabayashi Performers: Barbara Bourget, Carolyn Chan, Jay Hirabayashi, Chris Hannon, Holly Holt, Jennifer McKinley, Deanna Peters, and Matthew Romantini Lighting: Gerald King Music: Robert J. Rosen Set design: Terry Podealuk Art work: Richard Tetrault & Thomas Anfield Recorded musicians: François Houle, Peggy Lee, Laurie Lyster, and Adrienne Park (recording used with permission) Costumes: Laura Bartlett and Tsuneko Kokubo Kokoro burns hot as fire in Sunyata – Michael Scott, The Vancouver Sun Sunyata is about the ineffable mystery of human existence that encompasses pain, suffering, isolation, despair, but also discovery, celebration, joy, and love. To celebrate our twentieth year in dance (we last produced this work for our tenth anniversary), we embark again on this two and a half hour journey that cycles through hell, purgatory, and heaven. http://kokoro.ca

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Dance Allsorts 2pm

Z.Maboungou workshop 2pm

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Move - The Company 7:15pm Fujiwara Dance Inventions 8pm Tanya Marquardt 7:15pm Kokoro Dance 8pm

Kidd Pivot 8pm

Dead Reckoning 7:15pm Harupin-Ha 8pm

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Move - The Company 7:15pm Fujiwara Dan. Inventions 8pm Tanya Marquardt 7:15pm

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Kidd Pivot 8pm

Roundhouse Community Centre

Dancers Dancing 7:15pm Compagnie Aurélia 8pm

Flamenco Rosario 6:15pm EDAM 7pm battery opera 9pm

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Kidd Pivot 8pm

Rita Cioffi workshop Ballet BC Mentor 7:15pm Go-On Prod.

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Dance Allsorts & Z.Maboungou workshop3:30pm Ruckus 7:30pm Flamenco Rosario 6:15pm K.Ricketts 6:45pm EDAM 7pm battery op 9pm

Z.Maboungou workshop 2pm K.Ricketts 6:45pm Nyata Nyata 7:15pm Kokoro Dance 8pm Kidd Pivot 8pm

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Harbour Dance Centre

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Centennial Theatre 2300 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver

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Man It’s Modern Lecture 5:30pm Dancers Dancing 7:15pm Compagnie Aurélia 8pm

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Harupin-Ha workshop 2pm D. Fujiwara workshop Ballet BC Mentor 7:15pm Go-On Prod.

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Dead Reckoning 7:15pm

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303 East 8th Avenue (1 block East of Main)

68 Water Street, Suite 500

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A Centennial Theatre/Vancouver International Dance Festival Coproduction 77 Minutes Choreography: Brock Jellison Performers: Brock Jellison, Lj Jellison, Joanne Pesusich, Alex Pesusich, Scott Augustine, Lisa Gelly, Sasha Kozak, Shay Kuebler, Laura Flores, Sydney Lillejord, Melissa Lipkowski, Elysia Matheson, Maiko Miyauchi, Jeff Retzlaaff, Barbra Simeck, Michelle Smith, Kylie Stanton, Kristy Vasseur, Kelsey Wiens, Kristian Naso, Deanna Teeple, Alvaro Rovas, Mike Kennedy Lighting: Gerald King

CENTENNIAL THEATRE MARCH 17 & 18 - 7:30PM

Ruckus Dance (Vancouver)

Tickets: Adults/Students/Seniors: $25 Groups of 10 or more: $22.50 Groups of 50 or more: $20 Centennial discount rate of $20 for VIDF Pass holders For tickets, please call the Centennial Theatre box office at 604.984.4484 77 Minutes imagines a desperate vision of a possible future where a despotic government imposes extreme censorship on individual expression. Suspected trouble makers “disappear” under the guise of emergency measures. A group of dancers and musicians decide to take a stand against this repression. In seventy-seven minutes, through hip hop, tap, and contemporary dance driven by a five piece rock band, they sing and dance as though it were the last night of their lives…because it will be.

Ruckus Dance is a new twenty-four member company led by BC choreographer Brock Jellison who toured the world with the internationally acclaimed Tap Dogs production.

Photos by Carmelle Cachero

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A Vancouver East Cultural Centre production in association with the Vancouver International Dance Festival Choreography: Crystal Pite Performers: Eric Beauchesne, Francine Liboiron, Malcolm Low, Yannick Matthon, Crystal Pite, Anne Plamondon, and Victor Quijada

VECC MARCH 24-APRIL 1 - 8PM

Crystal Pite’s Kidd Pivot (Vancouver)

Tickets: $30 general, $25 students/seniors VECC subscription rate of $22/$15 available to VIDF pass holders at the door before 7:30 PM. Ticket sales at 604.251.1363, or 604.280.3311, or online ticket sales at http:// vecc.bc.ca and http://ticketmaster.ca Crystal Pite is an extraordinary dancer. After winning the Alcan Performing Arts Award for Dance 2006, Crystal carefully selected six more extraordinary dancers to work with her in creative residencies in Vancouver and Banff. The results of this interactive work with dancers with histories with Ballet BC, Frankfurt Ballet, bjm_danse, La La La Human Steps, les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, and Rubberbandance Group will be revealed in this as yet (as we go to press) untitled work. We already know, however, from a work-in-progress preview that it will be dance that dance lovers will love. Full tilt, full body, full flowing movement with full commitment is the evident passion of this wonderful ensemble of phenomenal dancers. http://www.kiddpivot.org 29 Photo by Chris Randle

MOVE: the company (Vancouver)

March 7-8 @ 7:15 PM Roundhouse Community Centre Exhibition Hall

March 14-15 @ 7:15 PM Roundhouse Community Centre Exhibition Hall

Local hip-hop troupe performs high-energy choreography

by Jheric Hizon, whose numerous dance credits include Sabrina: the Teenage Witch, Romeo Must Die, VTV’s Y, MTV Asia ‘99 and the Keenan Ivory Wayans Show as well as commercials for Coca-Cola and the Vancouver Grizzlies.

Exposed Choreographed by Josh Beamish Original Music by Kristopher Fulton Spoken Word Quotes by Anonymous Dancers: Josh Beamish, Joe Tremblay, Shelby Richardson, Sara Tucker, Hailley Caulfield, Melena Rounis, Heather Dotto, Giselle Liu

FREE PERFORMANCES

Dead Reckoning (Vancouver)

Dancers Dancing (Vancouver) March 9-10 @ 7:15 PM Roundhouse Community Centre Exhibition Hall ONE, The Catwalk (premiere) Choreography by Judith Garay Performed by Desirée Dunbar Music by Iva Bittova Costume by Margaret Jenkins http://dancersdancing.com

Ballet BC Mentor Programme (Vancouver) March 11-12 @ 7:15 PM Roundhouse Community Centre Exhibition Hall

Flamenco Rosario (Vancouver) March 16-18 @ 6:15 PM Roundhouse Community Centre Exhibition Hall Tangos Moros (An excerpt from Guadalquivir—the Great River: A Flamenco Journey) Artistic Director: Rosario Ancer Dancers: Afifa L. Moxness, Nanako Aramaki and Bonnie Stewart Guitarist: Victor Kolstee Singer: Gabriela Rojo http://centroflamenco.com

One Ear Walking Choreography by Shannon Moreno and Farley Johansson (Science Friction Productions) Music composed by Emad Armoush Music performed by Emad Armoush and Deni Franck 30

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March 21-22 @ 7:15 PM Roundhouse Community Centre Exhibition Hall Genie Choreography, Writing & Performance by Tanya Marquardt Original sound score by Emma Hendrix Sources for this piece include: Alex Gray & Kenneth Burke

Kathryn Ricketts (Vancouver)

March 18 & 25 @ 6:45 PM Roundhouse Turntable Plaza Lug Performer: Kathryn Ricketts Musician: Julia Nolen Kathryn Ricketts, carrying an old leather suitcase and wearing a worn hat and an oversized trench coat, is on a 5 year journey identifying borders, testing those boundaries and reaching new thresholds of understanding in her search for identity, and, eventually, home. You can join her on her journey at the Roundhouse Turntable Plaza. Kathryn will be happy to have your feedback to help her on the next stage of her travels.

Nyata Nyata/Zab Maboungou (Montreal)

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Nyata Nyata/ Zab Maboungou (Montreal) Dance Allsorts – African Fusion

Sunday March 19 @ 2pm A New Works production in association with the Vancouver International Dance Festival Roundhouse Community Centre Exhibition Hall Adults: pay-what-you-can ($5-10 suggested donation) Children: Free!

‘Choreography and performance by Zab Maboungou Musicians: Dominic Donkor & Tiya Muaza Mudada Technician: Eric Duval Zab Maboungou pushes the boundaries of African and modern dance and fuses them into a visually stunning style. Zab is a prolific artist who is active as a choreographer, performer, musician, author, and teacher of philosophy and dance. Her company, Nyata Nyata, has been at the forefront of development and promotion of African dance in Quebec, across Canada and abroad.

For this Dance Allsorts, Zab Maboungou will present Nsamu, a solo accompanied by two musicians. Nsamu explores a place for words that only the body can establish, a place where actions and words are inextricably linked. In Kikongo, the language of the two Congos, Nsamu means “the subject of the debate.”

Now in its eighth season, Dance Allsorts is Vancouver’s most eclectic dance series. Presented by New Works in partnership with the Roundhouse Community Centre, this popular series exposes audiences to dance of all sorts. Professional performances take place in a welcoming environment that is suitable for all ages, and allows for interaction with the performers after the show.

African Fusion workshop with Zab Maboungou Saturday March 18 @ 3:30-5pm $5 drop-in Roundhouse Community Centre Exhibition Hall

FREE PERFORMANCES

Tanya Marquardt (Vancouver)

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Workshops/Master Classes

WORKSHOPS & MASTER CLASSES

To learn about the artistic practices of visiting guest artists at the Vancouver International Dance Festival, call the Kokoro Dance office at 604.662.7441 to register for any of the following workshops or master classes: Harupin-Ha Workshop with Koichi and Hiroko Tamano March 4 2-7pm (5 hour workshop) EDAM Studio (303 E. 8th Avenue) March 5, 2-7pm (5 hour workshop) The Office (68 Water St., Suite 500) Cost: $75 for both days or $40 for one only Rita Cioffi EDAM Studio (303 E. 8th Avenue) March 11, 2-5pm (3 hour workshop) Cost: $25

HARBOUR DANCE CENTRE presents

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SUMMER INTENSIVE JULY 3RD- 21ST 2006 Vancouver, BC

GUEST TEACHERS FROM TORONTO, NEW YORK & BRAZIL jazz • ballet • street jazz • hip hop • rhythm tap • poppin • breakdance yoga • video dance • pilates • musical theatre

See our website for ongoing classes throughout the year.

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EDAM Studio (303 E. 8th Avenue) March 12, 2-5pm (3 hour workshop) Cost: $25

Nadine Thouin

Harbour Dance Centre (927 Granville St.) March 13, 10 AM (1.5 hour Master Class) Cost: $15

Zab Maboungou

EDAM Studio (303 E. 8th Avenue) March 25 & 26, 2-5pm (3 hour workshops) Cost $45 for both days or $25 for one

Kokoro Dance (ongoing) Harbour Dance Centre (927 Granville St.) Modern technique with Barbara Bourget Mon/Wed/Fri, 10 AM (1.5 hour Class) Butoh Zen Jazz with Jay Hirabayashi Tues/Thurs, 9:30 AM (2 hour Class)

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Writing Dance

How can we capture a theatrical performance in words? Back by popular demand, this stimulating writing workshop explores the creative and practical possibilities of writing about an ever-changing art form: the possibilities and limitations of words, the nuts and bolts of getting words about dance onto paper, how to pay reflective, creative attention to performances, and the role of objectivity and ethics.

WRITING DANCE

A Workshop with Kaija Pepper - March 2006 Presented by the Dance Centre in partnership with the Vancouver International Dance Festival

Participants will attend selected performances at the Vancouver International Dance Festival, followed by in-depth group discussions of written work at a series of Saturday afternoon workshops. Participants will be inspired to deepen their own understanding and respect for the art form through well-written, intelligent prose. A selection of workshop writing will be published later in the spring in The Dance Centre’s publication Dance Central.

The program is suitable for people from all backgrounds with an interest in writing, critical discussion, dance, performance and the arts. Specialist dance knowledge and journalistic experience is not required: enthusiasm and curiosity is!

Course fee: $160 Dance Centre members/$215 non-members (prices include GST). The fee includes tickets to three VIDF shows at the Roundhouse (additional tickets may be available), and four workshops at Scotiabank Dance Centre, totaling 11 hours.

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To apply, please send a sample of writing (any topic, up to 750 words in length) or a letter outlining why you are interested in writing about dance, to Kaija Pepper at kaija@shaw.ca or c/o The Dance Centre, Level 6, 677 Davie Street, Vancouver V6B 2G6, tel 604 606 6400 fax 604 606 6401.

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DANCE LECTURE

March 9 @ 5:30-7:00 PM Roundhouse Community Centre - Boardroom (Free lecture) A Lola Dance presentation in partnership with the Vancouver International Dance Festival Join dance historians Amy Bowring and Kaija Pepper for Man, It’s Modern, an informal slide and video presentation on the movers and shakers who laid the groundwork for the country’s modern dance boom of the 1970s.

Classique

Jazz

Musique du monde

Chanson

Espace musique, la radio musicale de Radio-Canada

Life Drawing Eye On Dance March 7-24 Roundhouse Community Centre Local artists are invited to come and draw clothed dancers and to show their resulting sketches in an evolving exhibition.

LIFE DRAWING EYE ON DANCE

Man, It’s Modern - Canadian Modern Dance in the 1960s

Drawing Sessions take place on weekdays beginning Tuesday, March 7 to March 24.

Wednesday sessions take place as part of the Salon Series from 12:00-1:00pm. On all other weekdays, sessions are from 12:00- 1:00pm in the Exhibition Hall.

Sessions are FREE and no pre-registration is necessary. Bring your own materials; paper is available at no cost. Clothed dancers will move and pose. Public is invited to draw (no photography) and to leave their drawings behind (with name and contact info) to be included in the Exhibition, Eye on Dance. All works will be installed by Roundhouse staff only. Drawings left behind will be kept for one week after the last day of the Exhibition and may be picked up during regular Roundhouse hours of operation.

Drawings left after that time will be thrown away.

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Contemplate movement and dance interpreted through the artwork of Richard Tetrault and Thomas Anfield and the photography of Chris Randle, Peter Eastwood and Andrew Querner.

Peter Eastwood - Fluidus “Dance has been an incredible source of inspiration for me since first seeing professional companies perform in the late 70’s. The fluidity, strength and individuality of each performer never fail to excite me, making photographing dancers a wonderfully liberating experience!”

- Peter Eastwood Vancouver-based photographer http://petereastwoodphotography.com

Thomas Anfield & Richard Tetrault Thomas Anfield and Richard Tetrault have collaborated with Kokoro Dance for nearly two decades including the backdrop to Sunyata and contributions to Bats and Sheepman Dreams. Their exhibition shows examples of their large body of paintings but will also include on-site creations painted during the festival. http://www.thomasanfield.com http://www.richard-tetrault.ca

ART EXHIBITIONS

Roundhouse Community Centre: Exhibition Hall

All proceeds from the sale of Peter’s photos will support the Vancouver International Dance Festival.

Chris Randle Chris Randle is the official photographer for the Vancouver International Dance Festival.

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ART EXHIBITIONS

Look No Further.

Andrew Querner - element Element is a documentary photo project using battery opera as its subject, in particular, the company’s process in the four months leading up to the production of [storm] at the Vancouver International Dance Festival. Shot by Alberta-based independent documentary photographer Andrew Querner, company members are captured in the dance and the moments in between. www.andrewquerner.com

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KOKORO DANCE/VIDF STAFF Executive Director: Jay Hirabayashi Artistic Director: Barbara Bourget Executive Assistant: Dalia Vukmirovich Publicist: Sabrina Mehra Bookkeeper: Carolyn Chan Lighting Designer: Gerald King Assoc. Lighting Designer: Larisa Fayad Production Manager: Terry Podealuk VIDF Photographer: Chris Randle VIDF Videographer: Clancy Dennehy Web Designer: Alex Novicic Graphic Designer: Ki Wight VIDF BOARD OF DIRECTORS Ki Wight Leslie Pomeroy David Adams Barbara Bourget Pascal Provost Robert Seaton Reg Tupper Susan Krakauer The Vancouver International Dance Festival is a member of the CanDance Network of Presenters

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KOKORO DANCE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Alix Hirabayashi George Rosenberg David Hopgood Mary Ann Chu Diane Farnsworth Marlene Tamaki Peter Smith Lyda Dicus Graeme Bristol Yasmine Mehmet Yasmine Franchi Patsy Duggan

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