[Bcma-l] (Fwd) Traces of E. Carr at Whistler March 07
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From: Mascall Dance <elistdirect@publicityplus.ca>
Subject: Traces of E. Carr at Whistler March 07
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C O M M U N I T Y E V E N T
A N N O U N C E M E N T
Mascall Dance
Traces of E. Carr at Whistlerıs Maurice Young Millennium Place
Event: Traces of E. Carr
Date: Friday, March 07, 2008 Times: 8 pm
Venue: Maurice Young Millennium Place
Admission: Adults $27.50 / Students & Seniors $24.99
MYMPS Members $22 / Children under 12 $17
Tickets: 604.935.8410, visit Millennium Place or www.ticketmaster.ca.
Information: www.mascalldance.ca
Dance & Music Bring Emily Carrıs Story To Life
A Humorous and Poignant Portrait
Vancouverıs Mascall Dance will bring its world-acclaimed
interpretation of the life of one of Canadaıs most celebrated artists,
Traces of E. Carr, to Whistlerıs Maurice Young Millennium Place for
one performance only on Friday, March 07, 2008.
A multi-media portrait based on the life, art and writings of Emily
Carr (1871-1945), composed of text, slides, music and virtuosic
dancing. Traces of E. Carr is an audience-oriented dance piece and a
humorous and poignant portrait touching on many of the universal
themes that artists live and work with today.
Accessible to audiences of all ages, Traces of E. Carr treads the fine
line between the abstract and the literal. Over the past decade Traces
of E. Carr has toured across Canada, through the highlands of
Scotland
and performed at the Spoleto Festival in Italy.
About The Show
Originally produced in 1998, Traces of E. Carr features a clear and
compelling biographical storyline narrated by director Penelope
Stella; a pumping fast-moving visceral dance choreographed by
Jennifer
Mascall; an original rock/pop musical score by Veda Hille; costumes by
award wining designer Nancy Bryant; set design by Pechet & Robb;
and
projections and lighting by John Macfarlane.
Traces of E. Carr speaks to the creative process in all of us, using
Emily Carrıs history as the doorway to numerous subjects and ideas.
By
giving a context to the life of Carr, the work illuminates the
history, social values, politics and geography of Victorian and early
20th Century British Columbia. Issues of racism, nature, indigenous
peoples and their art are explored. Through the narratorıs words and
the dancers actions, Emily Carrıs eccentric life and times come alive.
The dance within Traces of E. Carr expresses a wide range of
psychological moods as the thematic material explores feelings of
fear, loneliness, grief, anger, discovery, joy and eventually
transcendence.
What The Critics Say
* ³..rich, seamless and full of startling insight.² (Michael Scott /
Vancouver Sun)
* ³Rarely do you see every element come together so perfectly in
modern dance as in this one ² (Garth Buchholz / Winnipeg Free
Press)
* ³ muscular, jagged, visceral dance that, enhanced by a stage
drenched in deep shadows, produces a riveting effect.² (Jo Ledingham
/
Vancouver Courier)
About Emily Carr
Canadian artist Emily Carr was born in Victoria on December 13, 1871,
the same year that British Columbia became the sixth province of
Canada. Her English parents had settled in Victoria in 1863.
Carr began her formal art training at the age of 19 in San Francisco.
Her early creative experiences included touring to England and
France,
which had a profound impact upon her emerging sense of herself as an
artist. This was sealed with a fateful series of sketching trips
around the coast of British Columbia in 1930.
During her life Carr resorted to a number of different activities to
support herself as an artist. These included raising dogs, selling
pottery, and an ill-fated stint as a boarding house landlady. During
her own lifetime Carr gained more renown for her series of
autobiographical books than for her paintings. In her fifties she
traveled to Toronto to meet the Group of Seven and, encouraged by
their support, she began the series of paintings that are now
recognized as among her most important works.
About Jennifer Mascall & Mascall Dance
Jennifer Mascall has been creating dances for over twenty-five years,
and has had a very successful career as a solo dancer. Jennifer began
her career as a student during the seminal years of York University
Dance Department and was in its first graduating class.
In 1974 she choreographed ATTICA , her first dance work, and
initiated
GRID, an environmental dance company in downtown Toronto. She
was a
founding co-artistic director of EDAM, and is currently Artistic
Director of Mascall Dance. Since its beginning in 1989, Mascall Dance
has established a solid reputation in Vancouver and BC, as well as
nationally and internationally, for innovation, excellence and its
contribution to dance and to the performing arts.
Both Jennifer and the company have received audience and critical
acclaim throughout Canada and abroad for innovative, experimental
work, and for exciting collaborations with artists of other
disciplines. Hundreds of dances later, her engagement with all facets
of movement continues to produce work characterized by ideas and
experimentation. Her work has recently been seen outside Canada in
Scotland, Monte Carlo and Italy.
Traces of E. Carr is co-presented by Vancouver 2010 Olympiad.
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