2012 VIDF Program

FESTIVAL PROGRAM

March 2~11, 2012 Dance performances at the Roundhouse & The Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts Photograph of Alonzo King LINES Ballet by RJ Muna and Photograph of Taketeru Kudo by Chris Randle

Producers’ Notes At the 2012 VIDF, we contrast the potent polarities of ballet and butoh. We open the VIDF with performances

by Alonzo King LINES Ballet at The Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts. We first saw LINES Ballet performing the sensuous choreography of Alonzo King at the 2007 Montpellier Danse festival. We brought this company of virtuoso dancers to Vancouver in 2008 for performances that the staff of The Georgia Straight described as “Unbelievable” and garnered the comment that it was “one of the best dance performances I’ve ever seen.”

We promise you an unforgettable experience if you will join us in seeing Resin (2011) and Scheherazade (2009) for the full evening program at The Centre.

At the Roundhouse, we present performances by the most renowned butoh artists in the world. Yoshito Ohno, who danced in the very first butoh performance with Tatsumi Hijikata in 1959 returns to perform the third of the trilogy of dances, In Between, he has created with Montréal’s Lucie Grégoire. We presented Eye, the first work in the trilogy, in 2005, and Flower, the second, in 2009. Natsu Nakajima, whose butoh explorations started in 1962 with Kazuo Ohno and a year later with Tatsumi Hijikata, returns to Vancouver to perform a new world premiere called Tsunami. Shinichi Iova-Koga, who performed at the 2001 VIDF, brings his company inkBoat from San Francisco to perform a Canadian premiere, Line Between. Jay has choreographed a new solo, Rock My Body... that he will be performing with his son Joseph Hirabayashi’s band, The Aunts and Uncles. Closing the festival is Taketeru Kudo whose 2008 VIDF performances still have people buzzing with their memories of his fearlessly physical presence.

From ballet to butoh—you will not find another festival in the world like the 2012 Vancouver International Dance Festival. Enjoy!

Barbara Bourget

Jay Hirabayashi

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Ticket and Venue Info

COMMUNITY STAGE

ROUNDHOUSE

All six of the Community Stage performances can be seen with the purchase of a one-time annual $3 VIDF membership. These performances take place in the Roundhouse Exhibition Hall at 7 PM. Come solely for these performances or enjoy it as a prelude to the main stage shows. No ticket reservations required.

Pacific & Davie Streets, Vancouver, BC To order tickets for any of the performances taking place at the Roundhouse, please call the VIDF box office at 604.662.4966 or visit vidf.ca Adult................................................................................................. $35 Student/Senior/Non-Profit Arts Worker.............................................$28 Group of 10 or more..........................................................................$25 Roundhouse Pass............................................................................. $85 Tickets at the Roundhouse are General Admission All pricing includes HST, service charges and a VIDF membership.

Roundhouse passes are non-transferrable and allow admittance only for the valid passholder to a given show. Passes are non-refundable and cannot be used for the Alonzo King LINES Ballet shows on March 2 & 3 at The Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts.

The Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts 777 Homer Street, Vancouver, BC To order tickets for the performances taking place at The Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts, please call the VIDF box office at 604.662.4966 or visit vidf.ca

VIDF $3 MEMBERSHIP We have joined other festivals in instituting a membership policy to help us develop a sustaining patron base.

After filling out a contact info card and paying an annual $3 fee, patrons become VIDF Society members with voting privileges. VIDF members are given a button that allows entry to the performing area. One membership per adult; not necessary for children 16 years and under.

FREE for MEMBERS

WORKSHOP VENUES Harbour Dance Centre 927 Granville Street Vancouver, BC

Scotiabank Dance Centre 677 Davie Street Vancouver, BC

Adult..................................................................................................$70 Senior................................................................................................ $60 Student/Non-Profit Arts Worker....................................................... $50 Group of 10 or more......................................................................... $50 Tickets at The Centre are Reserved Seating All pricing includes HST, service charges and a VIDF membership for an added bonus of admittance to the free performances at the Roundhouse.

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VIDF Season Sponsors Corporate Sponsors:

March, 2012

A Message from the Mayor Media Sponsors: On behalf of the citizens of Vancouver, and my colleagues on City Council, I want to welcome everyone to the 2012 Vancouver International Dance Festival.

Vancouver has a dynamic arts community which offers us a vast array of artistic expression. The Vancouver International Dance Festival is a cornucopia of talent which never disappoints. The artists are uber-creative and talented it is a privilege to be able to attend these performances. I would also like to send my appreciation to the organizers, volunteers and performers for all the hard work that goes into the making of such a festival. I am pleased to congratulate the Vancouver International Dance Festival for such an innovative show.

I hope everyone enjoys the Festival!

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Art Exhibition Alix Hirabayashi Roundhouse Exhibition Hall Rabbit – Conquering fear, safety, alertness, nurturing, overcoming limiting beliefs The rabbit emerged after a glance at a long forgotten Japanese Design book in my studio. In the background of an elegant room, barely decipherable were some Japanese screens with the effortless outlines of rabbits. The rabbit then emerged out of painting #1.

Then, each rabbit wanted to be on its own; raw and unencumbered: Painting #2. And then, more appeared.

These are rabbits who are both offering something and asking for an offering. They look similar but each has its own story. Surprising for rabbits, they embrace the interior philosophy of butoh but rarely expose this deeply personal practice to the public.

They are honoured to be invited to the Exhibition Hall - Alix Hirabayashi

Chris Randle Roundhouse Exhibition Hall A Photographic Essay on the Polarities of Ballet and Butoh Chris Randle digs into his archives of more than 30 years of photographing dance in Vancouver to display photos he has taken of ballet and butoh in Vancouver.

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Alonzo King LINES Ballet (SAN FRANCISCO)

Resin and Scheherazade March 2-3 8 pm

$70/ $50

The Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts

Choreography: Alonzo King Production and Costume design: Robert Rosenwasser Lighting: Axel Morgenthaler Music: Song from the Sephardic tradition (Resin); Akir Hussain (Scheherazade)

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Photograph of Michael Montgomery of Alonzo King LINES Ballet by RJ Muna

Alonzo King LINES Ballet gets your adrenalin pumping from the first note of music and the first shaft of light hitting the sculpted bodies of dancers that carve through space and time with sensuous fluidity and a sense of sublime ecstasy that comes from the permission to be fearless in physical and emotional expression. You may find yourself uttering moans of delight when watching this company of virtuoso dancers performing two deeply moving works by master choreographer Alonzo King who started LINES Ballet thirty years ago in San Francisco and now tours throughout North America and Europe to universal acclaim.

Resin, the first of the two forty-minute works on the program, is performed to Sephardic music integrating traditional sources, Sephardic synagogue cantorial music from Turkey and Morocco, Judeo-Spanish song, and new music from Israel. Scheherazade has music composed by Zakir Hussain, one of the world’s leading virtuosos of Indian Classical percussion, who re-interprets the original music by Rimsky-Korsakov. Vancouver and Victoria audiences jumped spontaneously to their feet at the conclusion of Rasa, brilliantly performed to Hussain’s music in 2008.

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KOKORO DANCE

Kokoro Dance (Vancouver)

Rock my body...

March 6-8, 7 pm

Community Stage

Choreographer and Performer: Jay Hirabayashi Music Composed and Performed by: Aunts and Uncles Lighting: Jeff Harrison Jay Hirabayashi formed Kokoro Dance with his wife, Barbara Bourget, in 1986 when both decided to find their own expression of butoh.

Rock my body... responds to new urgencies coming from Jay’s skin and bones—the passage of time, the endless repetitions of the daily and nightly emergences of the sun and moon, the need to push the body, remembering the ones who are gone, the solace of the blues.

FREE for MEMBERS

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Photograph of Jay Hirabayashi of Kokoro Dance by Yukiko Onley

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Natsu Nakajima

Natsu Nakajima (Japan)

Tsunami March 9-11, 7 pm

Community Stage

Choreographer and Performer: Natsu Nakajima Natsu Nakajima is one of butoh’s seminal figures having initially studied with butoh founders Kazuo Ohno in 1962 and then performing with Tatsumi Hijikata a year later. In 1969, she formed her own butoh company, Muteki-Sha, and toured throughout North America, Australia, Asia and Europe.

When the earth shakes without warning and a wall of water washes away 10,000 lives, life and death are put into a different focus...

FREE for MEMBERS

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INK BOAT

inkBoat (San Francisco)

Line Between March 6-7 8 pm

$35/ $28

Roundhouse Performance Centre

Conceived & Performed: Shinichi Iova-Koga and Dohee Lee Direction: Dana Iova-Koga Music: Jason Ditzian and Suki O’Kane Installation: Amy Rathbone and Frank Lee Lights and Shadow Design: Allen Willner Kurogo: Peiling Kao By turns luminous, absurd, and haunting, Line Between resides betwixt waking and sleeping, the liminal place where the rules of one reality dissolve into the other. Featuring the exquisite physicality of Shinichi Iova-Koga and Dohee Lee, watch as cultural icons are twisted inside out, unearthing the likes of Edith Piaf, Johnny Cash and more! Passing from the recognizable to the ineffable, the totality of the performance arises from a deeply collaborative process amongst the individuals that come together to create an inkBoat performance.

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Photograph of Shinichi Iova-Koga and Dohee Lee by Pak Han

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Photograph of Lucie Grégoire and Photograph of Yoshito Ohno by Michael Slobodian

Lucie Grégoire (MONTRÉAL) and Yoshito Ohno (JAPAN)

In Between March 8-9 8 pm

$35/ $28

Roundhouse Performance Centre

Choreographed and Performed by: Lucie Grégoire, Yoshito Ohno Lighting: Marc Parent Music: Robert Normandeau and others Sound Arrangement: Bernard Grenon Costumes: Etsuko Ohno Yoshito Ohno continues his collaboration with Montreal’s Lucie Grégoire and completes the trilogy begun with Eye and Flower (both previously presented at the VIDF). Inspired and named after a poem

by Francois Cheng, In Between navigates through the intangible areas of human relationships and attempts to render the perceptible, the impalpable. The two soloists unite in an exceptionally precise and sensitive duo. The magic surfaces in the mutual resonance of their worlds, in the dialogue between their gliding bodies, in the games of masculine and feminine identity and in the encounter between the Eastern and Western worlds. With consummate mastery, Lucie Grégoire and Yoshito Ohno draw from their deepest inner selves in order to surrender to the challenge of a performance pulsating with eloquence, clarity and truth that can be fascinating and profoundly touching.

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Taketeru Kudo (Japan)

A Vessel of Ruins March 10-11 8 pm

$35/ $28

Roundhouse Performance Centre

Direction, Choreography & Performance: Taketeru Kudo Sound: Masaru Soga Lighting: Nobuyuki Tanaka Lighting Assistant: Megumi Tanaka Set: Kazuyuki Takahashi Costume: Konomi Shibata Production Manager: Wakako Harada

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Photograph courtesy of Taketeru Kudo

Taketeru Kudo returns to the VIDF after his haunting and affecting solo Go-Zarashi (A Karma Exposer), a piece about the conflict between folkloric blood and the wilderness of modernity performed at the 2008 VIDF. A Vessel of Ruins explores the themes of destruction and ruin which have been a main motif for Taketeru Kudo’s solo work. When all has been burnt and destroyed, a man is left, lost, with nowhere to go, and no one to speak to. He starts an internal journey to reconnect himself to his humanity, but will he find what was once there or will he find something else?

Kudo performed with the companies of butoh pioneers Koichi Tamano and Yukio Waguri as well as with Sankai Juku. In his own work he pushes his physicality, as if possessed, with a ferocity that passionately arrests the attention of his audiences.

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RE HE VE L O L PU REM DAR O T LEN CA

FESTIVAL CALENDAR

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Photograph of Victor Mateos Arellano of Alonzo King LINES Ballet by RJ Muna

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Friday, March 2

Wednesday, March 7

Alonzo King LINES Ballet – Resin and Scheherazade 8:00 PM – The Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts

Kokoro Dance – Rock my body…

7:00 PM – Community Stage at Roundhouse

Saturday, March 3

inkBoat – Line Between 8:00 PM – Roundhouse Performance Centre

Alonzo King LINES Ballet – Resin and Scheherazade 8:00 PM – The Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts Tuesday, March 6

Kokoro Dance – Rock my body…

7:00 PM – Community Stage at Roundhouse inkBoat – Line Between 8:00 PM – Roundhouse Performance Centre

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Thursday, March 8

Kokoro Dance – Rock my body…

7:00 PM – Community Stage at Roundhouse

Friday, March 9

Sunday, March 11

Natsu Nakajima – Tsunami 7:00 PM – Community Stage at Roundhouse

Natsu Nakajima – Tsunami 7:00 PM – Community Stage at Roundhouse

Yoshito Ohno and Lucie Grégoire – In Between 8:00 PM – Roundhouse Performance Centre

Taketeru Kudo – A Vessel of Ruins 8:00 PM – Roundhouse Performance Centre

Saturday, March 10

Yoshito Ohno and Lucie Grégoire – In Between 8:00 PM – Roundhouse Performance Centre

Natsu Nakajima – Tsunami 7:00 PM – Community Stage at Roundhouse

REDEFINING NORMAL SYMPOSIUM 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM – Roundhouse Community Centre Exhibition Hall

Taketeru Kudo – A Vessel of Ruins 8:00 PM – Roundhouse Performance Centre Photograph of Laurel Keen and Brett Conway of Alonzo King LINES Ballet by Marty Sohl.

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Photo of Andrea Bozic by Anna van Kooij

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Redefining Normal Symposium

Roundhouse Exhibition Hall – Free Event March 8, 2012 10 am to 5 pm The Redefining Normal Symposium will be on March 8, International Women’s Day, and will be a free public forum on issues of diversity in the Canadian Performing Arts. We invite you to join us in a conversation about what is “normal” in the arts. Through informed discussion, the Redefining Normal Symposium will analyze the facts around gender/ethnic/age diversity, and be focused toward coming up with action plans that people can use and be inspired by. Sometimes, real change needs to be structured and implemented like a plan.

Thought processes and patterns literally have to be forced to change.

For example, what if we came up with an action plan that challenged presenters and artistic directors to be sure and address diversity within at least one project in their programming for the season, and maybe two the following season, etc.? Ruby Slippers, urban ink, the Vancouver International Dance Festival and the Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance hope that this event has a profound and powerful impact on the community at large, and also serves as an important networking opportunity for all.

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Classes & Workshops Immerse yourself in the artistic practices of national and international dance artists performing in the 2012 VIDF. If you want to get direct insight into the art of our visiting guest artists, there is no better way than by taking a master class or workshop.

For more information or to register for any of the following workshops or master classes, please call the VIDF box office at 604.662.4966 or visit vidf.ca.

There is a 20% discount for Kokoro Dance and CADA/BC members.

Alonzo King LINES Ballet Master Class

March 1 10 AM – 12 PM

$25/ $20

Harbour Dance (927 Granville Street)

Take advantage of this rare opportunity to be learn how the balletic form is transformed by LINES Ballet into movement limited only by the limits of your imagination.

Kokoro Dance Workshop

March 5, 6, 7 & 9 9:30 – 11:30 AM

$20/ $15

Harbour Dance (927 Granville Street)

Experience the elements of butoh training including an introduction to your butoh body and how you can stretch time and space through the use of imagery to give meaning to your movement choices.

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Shinichi Iova-Kova Workshop

March 8 9:30 – 11:30 AM

$20/ $15

Harbour Dance (927 Granville Street)

Hidden Body Stratagems (dancing the line between life and form) To dance, hold many images in the mind at the same moment.

To live, forget it all.

We utilize basic principles of energy relations found in martial arts and pre-industrial dance forms. We challenge our personal reality, revealing beauty, humour and the grotesque. Working in groups, duets and solo, we practise listening to interior and exterior impulses, eliminating the distinction between the two.

Muscles fatigue. Focus shifts and clarifies.

Yoshito Ohno Workshop

March 10 & 11 12:30 – 3:30 PM

$50/day $75/both days

The Dance Centre (677 Davie Street)

Yoshito Ohno takes you back to the origins of butoh as taught by his father Kazuo Ohno and Tatsumi Hijikata and refined by his own experience in searching for original movement expression. Yoshito Ohno performed in the very first butoh performance choreographed by Hijikata in 1959.

Photograph of Shinichi Iova-Kova and Dohee Lee of inkBoat by Pak Han

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Life Drawing Sessions

CORPORATE SPONSORSHIPS

Come practice your drawing skills in our dance themed life drawing sessions. The sessions will take place for four days from March 6 – 9 at noon in the Exhibition Hall of the Roundhouse Community Centre.

Dancers will pose, either in plain clothes or costume, to inspire your sketches for an hour. Sessions are FREE and no pre-registration is required. Open to all skill levels. Sketching paper and pencils are generously donated for people to borrow during the sessions by Opus Framing and Arts Supplies.

By investing in their communities, small and large businesses alike are able to help keep their cities vibrant while improving their own brand recognition, market exposure and public image. Whether you are a small business or a large corporation, we have sponsorship packages that can be custom fit to suit your needs and to fulfill your interest in supporting the arts. With a projected market reach of hundreds of thousands, we have an audience that will want to hear from you.

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PRESENT AN ARTIST You can become a sponsor of any artist presented by the Vancouver International Dance Festival. Choose your favourite dance style, dance company or even which country they hail from, and help us bring them to Vancouver. Significant costs are involved in hosting groups of professional dancers who train for months to choreograph, produce and rehearse new works to present in performance. This is a unique way in identifying your company with specific artists that you want to see performing at the VIDF. For more information on any of these programs, please contact Molly Steeves, Marketing Director, at 604.662.7441.

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VIDF ENDOWMENT FUND

LARISA FAYAD MEMORIAL FUND

Your donation will help to ensure professional opportunities for local dancers, and touring opportunities for international artists to bring their legacies here to Vancouver.

Every dollar that you donate is invested in our Endowment Fund which is supervised by the Vancouver Foundation. Please make cheques payable to the Vancouver Foundation and indicate VIDF in the memo line. The VIDF is a non-profit, artist-run, registered charity (CRA #892858614RR0001) that needs your support to continue. With your help, we are building a legacy that will ensure great dance performances in Vancouver for generations to come.

Please mail your cheques to: Vancouver Foundation Re: Vancouver International Dance Festival 1200 – 555 West Hastings Street Vancouver, BC, V6B 4N6 Donations can also be made online at www.vancouverfoundation.ca/donate/donateonline.asp Enter “VIDF” in the search bar below “Donate to a Specific Fund” and then click on “Vancouver International Dance Festival Society Fund” in the search results. You will automatically be sent a tax deductible receipt for your donation of $25 or more.

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In loving memory of Larisa Fayad (1976-2007), her friends and family have established the Larisa Fayad Memorial Fund to carry on Larisa’s work and aspirations in the field of lighting design. From this fund, bursaries will be disbursed to enable the careers of emerging lighting designers. Please help keep Larisa’s memory alive by continuing to donate to this fund. All donations of $25 and over will be issued a tax deductible receipt. Please designate that your donation is dedicated to Larisa Fayad when you fill out the online donation form on the Vancouver Foundation website.

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staff listing Kokoro Dance/VIDF 339 West Hastings Street — 2nd Floor Vancouver, BC, V6B 1H6 Telephone: 604.662.7441 Box office: 604.662.4966 Fax: 604.662.3886 kokoro.ca, info@kokoro.ca vidf.ca, info@vidf.ca facebook.com/vidf.ca twitter.com/vidf Kokoro Dance / VIDF Staff Executive Director: Jay Hirabayashi Artistic Director: Barbara Bourget Marketing Director: Molly Steeves Bookkeeper: Carolyn Chan Fundraising Coordinator: Kate Minson Intern: Agathe Routier Production Manager: Terry Podealuk Technical Director and Lighting Designer: Jeff Harrison

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VIDF Photographer: Chris Randle VIDF Videographer: Clancy Dennehy Web & Graphic Designer: Aaron Smith VIDF Board of Directors Clancy Dennehy Jennifer McKinley Barbara Bourget Irene McDermott Kristine Richmond Cara Siu Henry Wong Kokoro Dance Board of Directors Anne O’Sullivan Robert Seaton Marlene Tamaki David Hopgood Dalia Vukmirovich Henry Wong

Fundraising Committee Members Jay Hirabayashi Barbara Bourget Carolyn Chan Clancy Dennehy Molly Steeves Kate Minson Agathe Routier Irene McDermott John McDermott Cara Siu Jennifer McKinley Kristine Richmond Anne O’Sullivan Roundhouse Staff Arts Programmers: Brenda Racanelli and Marie Lopes Technical Director: Matt Frankish Volunteer Coordinator: Michele Mateus The Vancouver International Dance Festival is a member of the CanDance Network of Dance Presenters.

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