Brimming

Project Description

Created and performed by Company 605 Co-Director Josh Martin, Brimming is a new solo work investigating the body as a container: a rigid frame holding in and concealing its stored inner contents. The piece imagines this hollow interior space, filled and emptied out, and inhabited by different states. A performer trapped inside of their own body, the dance is a meeting of both the seen and unseen – the invisible contents that slosh up against the sides, pushing against the outer surface from beneath, and occasionally leaking under its pressure. This new creation builds upon previous works Leftovers (2013) and Isolated Studies (a commission for Hilary Maxwell - 2018): Brimming carries forward some of this research around a separation of body and self that explored ideas of memories and trauma held physiologically, and movement principles around shape and stability, getting lost in impossible tasks to conjure emotional responses out of physical coping.

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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).