Umbrellas, Images and moving to the Firehall

We've been working for two weeks at the Japanese United Church. Music is fantastic, dance is ...well...getting there! We are trying not to kill each other with the large white umbrellas. I had originally planned for 5 dancers in the space...What was I thinking!?! Three plus those props is more than enough. Should get even more interesting with the weight of the projectors.

We have HUNDREDS of pictures. SO many great ones. The puzzle is now how to put the pieces together properly. Here's one shot by Steven Mayes of the sky behind the Firehall Arts Centre. The colour is some oddity of the digital camera, but gorgeous.

Still waiting for some technology to arrive by post (hate the back-to-work legislation, but hoping it will mean the stuff will arrive soon). The piece is truly still in the rough but as Matt says "It's a thing" - and it is. And a pretty interesting thing too...

EN: a raincity street dance - the work has begun

We are working on a new piece for the Dancing on the Edge Festival – which is an extension of EN (circle/fate) the piece we did for the Procession of Performing Circles (LIVE Biennale) in March 2010. Composer and taiko master Eien Hunter-Ishikawa and TomoeArts director Colleen Lanki have been working on creating the music and shape of the piece…meeting and improvising movements and music.

And we are featuring projections using photos of people and places in Vancouver's downtown eastside, commissioned from five community photographers connected to Hope in Shadows. We met over a week ago and they are busy taking photos now...The Pivot Legal Society wrote about our first meeting: http://pivotlegal.org/node/307

We're going to post updates as the process continues - about the music, the movement, the text, the photos...and the rain (the show is about rain after all...)