Project Details

Project created by:

Albatross is a collaboration between Lisa Gelley, Josh Martin, and German Jauregui.

Leftovers is choreographed by Lisa Gelley and Josh Martin.

Key Collaborators:

ALBATROSS: Performer: Josh Martin & Lisa Gelley; Lighting Designer: James Proudfoot; Sound Design: Stefan Smulovitz; Video Design: Aram Coen; Projection Programming: Remy Siu; Video Footage: Andrey Prokhorov.

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

Audience: General Audience

Length in minutes: Leftovers: 17 minutes; (Intermission or 5-10min Pause); Albatross (Excerpt): 40 minutes (Total duration w/ Pause: 65min)

Space required: Both Albatross and Leftovers benefit from a theatre with full tech, however have the flexibility to be adapted to a variety of spaces ranging in size. The preference is for theatres with at least a base level of technical capabilities, but venues such as high school auditoriums are also possible.

Preparation required:

General technical 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 playback is from company laptop running QLab. The company may request specific channeling of certain sound cues through specific monitors for effect.

LEFTOVERS: Stage: minimum 8m x 8m - (26’ x 26'); All Black Masking. No specific style of wings necessary. Dancer uses only one stage entrance from DSR. Sound: Professional quality stereo sound system in good working order, providing clear, undistorted, evenly distributed sound proportionate to hall capacity; Minimum of 2 On-Stage Monitors (DSL and DSR); Sound is single track, played straight through. Sound source is a stereo output from the company’s computer, or a digital file transferred to venue sound operators equipment. Lighting: The piece has roughly 13 LX Cues, which mainly utilize these specific 4 required specials: 1. A diagonal corridor from Downstage Right to Upstage Left created using two opposing narrow/medium lens Parcan fixtures, each affixed to their own designated boom at a height of about 7-8 feet (just above dancer's head). 2. special (another par would suffice), hung just slightly USL of center-center, focused straight down to create a minimum 7-foot wide pool, matching color to the pars, and adding heavy frost. 2. 1 cool front, singled out, focused to DSL stage quadrant, with spill reaching from DSL to USL. 3. A mix of conventional lighting instruments. Required inventory will be adjusted based on the configuration of each venue. Depending on space/festival plot, some sidelight (shins or mid height) may be required for added coverage.

Availabilities: Available in 2020/21 season except for the following dates: March 1-5 - Vancouver Playhouse performance (TBC); March 21-28 - BC Movement Arts Series Tour (Sointula, Port McNeil, and Alert Bay); April 4-16 - Potential dates for residency in Heidelberg (TBC). Available in 2021/22season except for the following dates: Aug 31-Sept 3 - Tanzmesse (TBC); December - Winter Intensive Program. 2022/23 is currently unknown and does not have firm obligations at this time.

Number of performers on tour: 2

Number of support staff on tour: Stage Manager & A/V Technical Support

Community Engagement Activities

PROCESS SHARING & AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT: Rather than design separate community engagement activities, we take our existing artistic activity and ensure there are opportunities for different communities to interact with it. Often this takes the shape of multiple performances and showings of work-in-progress and open rehearsals, where the process is described and viewers can engage in dialogue with us. Partnerships with many organizations locally and on tour has allowed the company to create performances specifically for young audiences and high schools. An example of this is the Dance Centre’s Discover Dance Series, which targets high school groups and includes Q+A and dance workshops. WORKSHOPS & PARTNERSHIPS: 605 works to connect the pre-professional and professional dance community. We’ve strengthened our partnership with Simon Fraser University, playing a larger role to this end. We’ve brought fourth year students as apprentices in our research processes, hosted work/study students for SFU’s Internships In Contemporary Arts Program (credited), mentored at SFU’s LAUNCH! Festival, and taught workshops for the University’s dance theatre/dance majors. We have similar relationships with Modus Operandi Training Program, and Arts Umbrella. These workshops also take place independent of these partnerships while on tour.