Rehearsals for EN (circle/fate)

We have been rehearsing like crazy all week - post Olympic exhaustion and all - to put together a really cool five-minute piece for The Procession of Performing Circles which is part of the Bright-Light public art event happening in the DTES.  Some very very interesting stuff happening until late March all over the neighbourhood.

I have been working with two fabulous dancers - Tami Mukai and Maki Komori - and I'm sure they are pretty tired.  Three sections to this dance - none of them too horribly difficult, but still, getting it all learned in a few rehearsals has been tiring.  Eien Ishikawa-Hunter has created some wonderful rhythms on a bunch of recycling containers he will have hanging off his shoulders.  Yulia Shtern has created some very cute (and water-resistant!) costumes and IF THE CRAZY PROJECTORS WORK we will have projected images on white umbrellas - images courtesy of Hope in Shadows.

(above are Maki and Tami rehearsing at the Dance Centre)

So we have a very odd version of a Bon Odori - contemporary choreo and music -all hopefully illustrating a series of human relationships...meetings and re-meetings... circles & fate: the meanings of the Japanese word "EN" - when written with different Chinese characters.

SUNDAY NIGHT - MARCH 7 - starting at 7pm from the SunYat Sen Garden and walking down Carrall-Powell-Columbia-Pender.  And FREEFREEFREE - Should be fun! Bright-Light Website