Joshua Beamish / MOVETHECOMPANY
Proximity
Photo credits: David Cooper
Joshua Beamish/MOVETHECOMPANY
Joshua Beamish founded MOVETHECOMPANY in Vancouver in 2005. His works have toured throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Commissions include The Royal Ballet, National Ballet of Canada, Vancouver Opera, Cape Town Opera, New York City Ballet Principals Wendy Whelan for Restless Creature and Ashley Bouder for The Ashley Bouder Project, New York Choreographic Institute, Compania Nacional de Danza de Mexico and Toronto Dance Theatre, among others. Joshua choreographed for the CBC Radio Canada series Ils Dansent and with Cirque du Soleil for World EXPO Shanghai. He was an inaugural Artist-in-Residence at The Joyce Theater’s Choreographic Center, in addition to residencies at The Banff Centre and Jacob’s Pillow. Notable presentations include BAM Next Wave, The Joyce Theater, The Guggenheim Museum/NYC, Royal Opera House/London, Princeton University, Fire Island Dance Festival, The Harris Theater/Chicago, Artists in Action/Mumbai, Seoul International Dance Festival and the Bangkok International Festival.
Proximity
Joshua Beamish is a BC dance artist who has achieved worldwide success as a prolific choreographer and an exceptional performer: this is a chance to see both aspects of his work. The original digital program featured two of his creations – Lost Touch, a solo for Renée Sigouin, and Proximity, a duet performed by Beamish and Sigouin. Beamish also dances in two solos choreographed for him: Redemption, by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, and Ablaze Amongst the Fragments of Your Sky by former Ballet BC artist Kirsten Wicklund. Falling Upward is a dance film created by Joshua Beamish, Scott Fowler & Stefan Nazarevich. All five works touch on journeys through solitude and contemplation, harnessing a reflection of our collective present in service of investigation and growth. The live production will include a sixth short work SALT, created by Beamish and performed by Beamish and Sigouin.
Photo credits: Cindi Wicklund
Performance History of Proximity
Past: Oct 17-18, 2020 - Sechelt Arts Festival, Raven's Cry Theatre
The Dance Centre Digital - Feb 2021, NYC Baruch PAC - Feb 2022, TBC - Oliver & Chilliwack - Feb 2022 (proposing to move this to 2022-2023 to join any potential dates from this submission)
Project Details
Project created by: Joshua Beamish/Kirsten Wicklund/Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
Key Collaborators: Performers: Joshua Beamish & Renee Sigouin, Lighting by James Proudfoot
Audience: General
Length in minutes: 55-65min depending on pause lengths once converted to a live experience - Mixed program
Space required: Built for a Theatre and premiered live in Sechelt, but then converted to digital for The Dance Centre. We have options for live or digital versions
Preparation required: Ideally one day before the performance, or half a day. Can potentially be done all in one day.
General technical requirements: marley floor required, rigging of a net as a set for one piece but no people are in it/not weight bearing, we have all rigging equipment
Availabilities: WINTER 2022, SPRING 2022, SUMMER 2022, FALL 2022, SPRING 2023, SUMMER 2023 - We have available weeks throughout each period. We prefer 2022-2023 over 2023-2024, but can be available for both seasons. We are currently also planning our 2022-2023 tour of "Saudade" in Alberta and Europe. This tour will occur Sept-Nov 2022, but there will still be open weeks within this period to tour "PROXIMITY".
We will also premiere a new ensemble production in WINTER 2023 but the exact dates are not yet set. We will update our availability for touring PROXIMITY, once these dates are finalized.
Number of performers on tour: 2 - Performer/Director/Choreographer & Performer
Number of support staff on tour: 2 - TD & SM
Community Engagement Activities
Master Classes & Artist Chats/Lectures/Demos - all ages and dance experience levels, fees depend of class size and number of classes/days, we are open to presenter ideas for longer or shorter residency periods and happy to make a plan that fits within the budget a presenter has to work with.
In the past, I've made pieces on students or community dancers that perform in the show as an opening act for our show. I've done zoom creations and workshops in advance of traveling to cities. I've done workshops earlier in the year, then returned for the show. I've mentored the creation of local creators works. There are plenty of options which are best discussed on a case by case basis per community.
Contact: Joshua Beamish, josh@movethecompany.com
Agent: Menno Plukker is our agent, but we will handle BC touring directly. Contact Josh.
Website: joshuabeamish.com
Facebook: movethecompany
Instagram: jjbeamish