In Penumbra
2017
Scotiabank Dance Centre
Vancouver, BC
Kinesis Dance somatheatro marks its landmark 30th anniversary with the world premiere of In Penumbra, as part of the Vancouver International Dance Festival at the Scotiabank Dance Centre.
In Penumbra continues on the creative path of Terezakis’ 2015 U>W and our futile quest to find utopia in a dystopic world. The multi media work uses sculptural light installation, live video feed and a surround-sound score to create an otherworldly environment for the audience and the performers.
“The perpetual journey continues. In this work I chose to explore not just the concept of light and darkness/hope and despair, but more importantly the penumbra – that ‘grey area’ between light and shadow.”
With the performers, we explore this area as the thing that traps us in the ‘in between’, that place of contradictions, disillusion and disappointment that prevents us from reaching our true desire. We realize how this quest for enlightenment can bring out the best and the worst in all of us as we can be easily misguided in our complex and self serving world.
Collaborators
Choreography, Concept & Direction:
Paras Terezakis
Interpreters:
Arash Khakpour, Elissa Hanson, Hyoseung Ye, Diego Romero, Renée Sigouin
Video Artist:
Josh Hite
Lighting:
James Proudfoot
Music/Sound Score:
Nancy Tam
Set Design:
Paraskevas Terezakis, Daniel O’Shae
Stage Manager, Technical Director:
Daniel O’Shae
Assistant to the Artistic Director:
Megan Hunter
Extract of In Penumbra, March 2017
We acknowledge the financial support of The Province of British Columbia.
In Penumbra was also made possible with the support of The BC Arts Council, The City of Vancouver, The Hamber Foundation, Freedom 55 Financial – A Division of London Life, RBC Foundation
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.