White Breakfast
1987
Firehall Arts Centre
Vancouver, BC
White Breakfast is a collaboration between Paras Terezakis and Director Andrew McIlroy. It is the story of individuals, each therapists in their own right, who meet with a music therapist specializing in attaining self-realization through sound. As the work progresses, movement, speech and music combine uniquely to reveal the individual reality of the psyches of the five therapists, each trapped within her own dreams, each seeking release as wounded healers themselves.
A portrait of psychosis, the work explores the borders between sanity and insanity, imagination and reality and the ever-elusive boundary between dance and theatre itself.
Collaborators
Choreography:
Paras Terezakis
Co-Directors:
Andrew MacIlroy, Paras Terezakis
Interpreters:
Daina Balodis, Florentia Conway, Katerina Dunn, Thecla Schiphorst, Janis Ungaro, Cindy Varney
Lighting Designer:
Borja Brown
Composer:
Robert Caldwell
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.
Review
by Michael Scott, Vancouver Sun
White Breakfast is a performance piece of astonishing power… Part dance, part dreamscape, part Greek tragedy, the work confounds categorization… some of the performers are actors who dance, some are dancers who act.