Cara Spooner and Alicia Grant are on the move again with a new piece and residency at the Harbourfront Centre as part of the HATCH emerging performance series.
Body Cartography
Created in collaboration with visual artist Simon Rabyniuk, as well as urban theorist Alex Marques, Body Cartography emphasizes and distorts the idea of a city within a city. A performance that mixes disparate details of balancing on rooftops, walking home alone at night, raiding secret swimming pools and feeling too close to strangers – employing installation, dance and question and answer periods.
“Cara Spooner and Alicia Grant make films, installations, curated events, subtle interventions and performances. They come from a contemporary dance lineage and integrate the physicality of their dance backgrounds into their practice and conceptual performances. They collaboratively create art that amplifies, distorts and/or frames everyday experience, drawing attention to disparate details like personal space, contemporary mythology, architecture of food courts and how fast cars can actually move with dances, installations and question and answer periods. They merge inner and outer stimuli to create live art events that are a convergence of their own bodies and the world around them. Their interdisciplinary collaborations unpack the notion of artist as social being into a relational art practice.” from Harbourfront site.
February 25 & 27, 8 p.m at Harbourfront Centre. Studio Theatre. York Quay Centre, 235 Queens Quay West (Map)
Regular: $12 Student/Senior or Arts Worker: $10
Citybuilders
posted on
December 1st, 2009
alicia and i are having a fundraiser in support of our new piece we will be presenting as a part of HATCH
here are the detials:
draft four
posted on
May 22nd, 2009
DRAFT FOUR
(a bring-your-own-headphones event)
Concept and Choreography by Alicia Grant and Cara Spooner
Featuring Writers: Daniel Cockburn, Norah Franklin, Simon Rabyniuk and Caylie Staples
June 3 – 6, 2009
Performances start promptly at 8pm each evening,
Reception: Saturday June 6th, to follow performance Draft Four is a collaborative performance between Choreographers Alicia Grant and Cara Spooner and invited writers Daniel Cockburn, Norah Franklin, Simon Rabyniuk and Caylie Staples. Through performative and spoken investigations into movement and action these artists question our relationship to narrative. Throughout the duration of the performance viewers will be asked to interact with varying forms of linear and non-linear narration, including visual, written, recorded and performed methods of storytelling. We commonly look to narrative to help things “make sense.” However, the sensorial variation found in Draft Four reveals narratives that are altered and re-positioned, each dependent on ones proximity and interaction with the surrounding environment. Individual moments become joined and personal experiences shared?
@ XPACE Cultural Centre, 58 Ossington Ave
http://answersfromtheinexperienced.blogspot.com/
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The public can ask questions of the two artists via facebook, email or in person (available meeting times will be posted). Communication will be framed casually without contextual support or expertise. The artists will connect with friends, lovers, acquaintances and strangers.
movement maps
posted on
March 13th, 2009
a daily movement map i made for www.theportablelibraryproject.blogspot.com
