A Parcel of Men’s Knowledge

1994
Firehall Arts Centre
Vancouver, BC

The all-male cast explodes, turning sublime tenderness into pure, raw aggression as they do battle with rage and fear.

A Parcel of Men’s Knowledge is drawn from a quotation from Shakespeare: “I see men’s judgments are a parcel of their fortunes, and things outward do draw the inward quality after them to suffer all alike.”

Our knowledge is a parcel, a box constructed to contain how we understand our world and ourselves. But containment limits us and prevents us from having to confront and deal with what is “in the box”. As an artist my purpose in creating this work was to explore, as a physical language, the collisions of impulse and instinct with imposed social, physical, spatial and emotional limitations. In developing this theme I wanted to use the creative process to examine, develop and review my choreographic craft through a variety of experiments and settings. Kinesis Dance has always defied boundaries. I want to explore movement from the gut, to open the parcels and confront limitations directly.

A Parcel of Men’s Knowledge is the first part of the Quest of the Human Condition trilogy.

 

Collaborators

Choreography, Concept & Direction:
Paras Terezakis

Interpreters:
Pipo Damiano, Daniel Lauzon, Ron Stewart, Alvin Erasga-Tolentino, Daelik Hackenbrook

Composer:
Richard Windeyer

Lighting Designer:
Barry Hegland

Visual, Set and Costumes Concept:
Paras Terezakis

Production, Stage Manager & Technical Director: 
Mila Yee-Hafer

Assistant Stage Manager:
J.P. Slater

Photographer:
Daniel Collins

We would like to express our deepest and sincere appreciation to our funders, partners, volunteers and supporters who made this project possible.


We would like to acknowledge that we are gathered and are creating on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples–Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.