Palimpsest – I Wear My Suit Where Am I Going?
1990
Dancing on the Edge Festival
Firehall Arts Centre
Vancouver, BC
This piece is a short solo, a structured improvisation that asks “Where am I going?” The dictionary defines palimpsest as a parchment or the like from which writing has been partially or completely erased to make room for another text suggesting the layering of information or thoughts. In the piece repetitive body movements, vibrations, jumps, and spirals take the viewer to a memory impression of what was and begs the question of “where next?”
The piece was inspired by and set to the music of Greek Composer Yiannis Xenakis.
Collaborators
Choreography:
Paras Terezakis
Interpreter:
Paras Terezakis
Music:
Yiannis Xenakis
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.