Almost Night
2007
Scotiabank Dance Centre
Vancouver, BC
…the city never sleeps…we aren’t allowed…marathon…pressure to keep going, moving, thinking…can’t slow down…exhausted…can’t go on…I must whisper words of inspiration, motivation, fear…like a drug…to keep going….can’t miss anything…help me go on…drunken haze…I must…it won’t let me…you won’t let me…if I drop…will you catch me?…if I catch you…can I carry you?…almost night…on the run…let’s go further…further…quickly…I can’t…but we have to…almost night…don’t want to miss a thing…
Almost Night is a contemporary dance work inspired by the sensual and subtle differences we experience as the daylight hours magically become night, especially as observed in an inviting urban environment. Life pulses with electricity, anticipation, and liquid energy as people shed their inhibitions in the shadows.
Collaborators
Choreography, Concept & Direction:
Paras Terezakis
Interpreters:
Jennifer Clarke, Alain Rivero Rodriguez, Matthew Romantini
Lighting Design:
James Proudfoot
Almost Night by Paras Terezakis
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.