Albatross and Leftovers

Company 605

 
 

Project Description

"Albatross" (excerpt), created through an international collaboration between Company 605 and Brussels-based artist German Jauregui, is a physically grueling piece which pulls apart a single moment to experience its contents in expanded time. Like two parts of one’s self, in continuous motion and perpetual contact, two bodies inhabit a single person's trajectory through a test of endurance, simultaneously becoming one another’s obstruction and support to keep moving forward.

Performed by Josh Martin, "Leftovers" began as an investigation into how the body holds separate memory banks in muscle tissue, bones, and organs which all store their own accounts of past events, actions and trauma in ways that keep this collected information inaccessible to the mind. In a constant effort to disconnect movement from thought, the dance is an attempt to externalize the inner moments of body recall, and an expansion of what gets churned up in the retrieval.

 
 

Company Profile

Led by artistic co-directors Lisa Gelley and Josh Martin, Company 605 is an arts organization based in Vancouver, on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded Indigenous territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. With an expanding repertoire of diverse works, the company has performed from coast to coast in Canada as well as internationally: American Dance Festival, New York City Center’s Fall for Dance Festival, PuSh International Performing Arts Festival, The Cultch, Usine-C and L'Agora de la Danse, La Rotonde, DanceWorks, Live Art Dance, The Banff Centre, On The Boards' NWNW and Bumbershoot Festival, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Festival PRISMA, Festival Parentesis, Tempel Kulturzentrum and Regensburger TanzTage, BODY.RADICAL, M1 Contact and Sydney Festival. 605's co-directors have created commissioned works for several dance companies, including Ballet BC (Anthem, 2017). Their collaborations with filmmakers have allowed 605’s dance-on-screen work continues to be shared globally (at over 45 festivals).

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Choreographer and Key Collaborators

Choreographer(s)/Creator(s) Name(s):

Albatross is created by Brussels-based German Jauregui in collaboration with Company 605


Leftovers is created by Josh Martin

Additional Key Artistic Collaborators:

Albatross:
Directed by: German Jauregui
Created in collaboration with Josh Martin, Lisa Gelley and Hilary Maxwell
Performers: Josh Martin and Lisa Gelley
Lighting Design: James Proudfoot
Sound Design: Stefan Smulovitz

Leftovers:
Choreography and Performance: Josh Martin
Rehearsal Direction: Lisa Gelley
Lighting Design: Won Kyoon Han
Music: Lightning Bolt / Polmo Polpo

Outreach Activities + Community Engagement

With each work that Company 605 has produced, extensive dissemination has always been a goal, with the objective to create further opportunities for the artists to connect with as broad and diverse a public as possible. This continues to include searching out ways to share and demonstrate the artists’ choreographic/movement practice on a more intimate level, and planning outreach activities that can become integral to developing a sense of familiarity and appreciation of dance, and the building future audience.

Company 605 accommodates pre-show chats, talk-back sessions, student matinees, lectures, etc and offers a variety of workshops and masterclasses (all-ages from youth to professional) often based around concepts, thematic ideas and movement techniques found in within its work. However, we also endeavour to work closely with presenters to design outreach initiatives tailored to the specific communities visited, and invite new ideas. A current interest of the artists is to extend their stay in the visited community, either before or after their performance, to offer a Creation Lab – Working with a small/medium assembled group of local artists within an actual creative process, and collaborating with 605’s team to together build a new short creation with a show-and-tell to public.

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Past and

Upcoming performances

Mixed Program (Albatross&Leftovers)
December 2-3, 2021 - BC Movement Arts Series (Sointula, BC)
December 4, 2021 - BC Movement Arts Series (Port McNeil, BC)
December 5, 2021 - BC Movement Arts Series (Alert Bay, BC)

Albatross:
March 2019 - Festival Paréntesis Danza (San Jose, Costa Rica)
October 4-5, 2018, The Dance Centre, Discover Dance Series
January 27, 2018, Dance Victoria Dance Days
November 22-25, 2017, The Shadbolt Centre -- mixed program as In Circulation (Burnaby)
December 7-10, 2016, Firehall Arts Centre Theatre (Vancouver, BC)

Leftovers:
October 2019 - Kuandu Arts Festival (Taipei)
September 2019 - BODY.RADICAL International Performing Arts Biennial (Budapest)
August 2019 - Dance: Made In Canada Festival (Toronto, ON)
March 23, 2018 - Festival Paréntesis Danza (San Jose, Costa Rica)
October 26-28, 2017 - Oduru Akita Festival (Akita, Japan)
October 3-8, 2017 - Festival of New Dance (St. John’s, NL)
October 28,29, 2016 - Fluid Festival (Calgary)
February 28 - March 19, 2016, Vancouver International Dance Festival
January 2015 - Dance Victoria Dance Days
November 2014 - German Tour - Stuttgart, Regensburg, Augsberg, Lindau, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Ulm (Germany)
October 2014 - National Arts Centre’s 2014/15 Dance Season (Ottawa)
Oct 2014 - Danse Atlantic Dance Festival (Moncton, NB)
March 2014 - Internationales Solo-Tanz-Theater Festival (Stuttgart) - Awarded 1st Prize Choreography
July 2013 - Dancing On The Edge Festival (Vancouver)
June 2013 - Risk/Reward Festival (Portland)
June 2013 - On The Boards Northwest New Works Festival (Seattle)

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Media Credits:
The three photos with two dancers in them are by David Cooper and the performers are Josh Martin and Lisa Gelley
The image of solo dancer is by Chris Randle and the performer is Josh Martin

Video password:
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Leftovers

Link to videos below

Project Details

 

  • Title of Work:
    Mixed Program – Albatross x Leftovers (two short works from Company 605 repertoire)

    Premiere Date and Venue/Location:
    Albatross: December 7th, 2016, Firehall Arts Centre, Vancouver, BC Leftovers: July 2013, Dancing On The Edge Festival

    This project is a:
    Full evening/Mainstage, Adaptable to Outside or Alternative Venues, This is a Mixed Program, Online Presentation/Interaction

    Length in Minutes (including intermission):
    61 - 75 minutes

    Number of performers
    2

    Number of Performers on Tour:
    2

    Number of Support Staff on Tour:
    2

    Per-Performance Fee Range:
    $2500-$5000

    Available to Tour:
    2020-21
    2021-22

    Basic Tech Requirements:

    Albatross:
    Stage: minimum 25 feet wide (leg to leg) x 22 feet deep. (Ideal is about 32 x 25 feet)
    Black Marley Dance Floor
    Lighting Design adaptable to a range of venues and inventories.
    Sound: sound playback is from company laptop running QLab.
    The company may request specific channeling of certain sound cues through specific monitors for effect.

    Leftovers:
    Please see attached tech rider

    Other performance files (ex. tech riders, floor and light plots, past program notes, etc):
    Download
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  • Audience:
    General Audience

  • Agent/Manager
    Francesca Piscopo
    6046836552
    francesca@company605.ca

    Address
    104 - 336 East 1st Avenue
    Vancouver, British Columbia, 
    Territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations,
    V5T4R6
    6046836552

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