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.