Looping
Company 605
Project Description
Looping is a durational installation by Company 605 deriving from the concepts of their ensemble work Loop, Lull which premiered at the 2019 Push International Performing Arts Festival. A rotating cast of 15 performers trade in and out of a repeating improvised looping score, an evolving conversation with no beginning and no end. In this shared practice of attention, they are working on recognizing and responding to the emergence of change, continuously tracking themselves in relation to one another. It is a simultaneous doing and undoing, with each repetition being a slight revision, erasing pieces of what has come before while successively building a way forward. 605's Looping is a complex test of endurance and our capacity for adaptation, imagining new ways to be together through instability.
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
Lisa Gelley and Josh Martin
Key artistic collaborators:
Brandon Alley, Kate Franklin, Bynh Ho, Jamie Robinson, Zahra Shahab, Avery Smith
Original sound: Matt Tomkinson
'Lighting consultant: James Proudfoot
Creative contributor: Maiko Yamamoto
Outreach Activities + Community Engagement
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.
Looping installation can be conceived as a community project in collaboration with the local dance community of the cities where the company tours. Company 605’s artistic co-directors will travel in advance to lead a preparatory workshop with local dancers who will be part of the final cast (together with Company 605).
Past and
Upcoming performances
Looping premiered on November. 21-23, 2019, Dance in Vancouver, Scotiabank Dance Centre, Vancouver, BC
Looping, August 27-28, 2020, Tanzmesse, tanzhaus nrw, Dusseldorf (Germany/ CANCELLED because of COVID-19)
photo: Company 605 Looping Laura Avery, Bynh Ho, Francesca Frewer, Sophia Wolfe, Jess Wilke
FULL LENGTH
photo: Company 605 Looping Laura Avery, Bynh Ho, Francesca Frewer, Sophia Wolfe, Jess Wilke
Project Details
Type of Work
Dance/Theatre, Durational performance, Dance installation.
Performance Type
This work is built for alternate venues and it is adaptable to outdoor and different spaces (e.g. theatre lobby, public libraries, arts galleries etc, plazas, parks etc.)
THIS IS A FULL LENGTH WORK (as a dance installation it can be performed multiple times in a day and audience can access at anytime)
Audience Type
General Audience
Length in minutes:
75 minutes
# of Performers on Tour
7
# of Support Staff on Tour
2
Fee range:
More than $5000
Available to tour:
Not available from November 30 to December 6, 2021, other wise available through to Summer 2023
Technical Requirements
With a simple and adaptable lighting design intended, the piece can currently be conceived and altered for a number of performance contexts. We imagine the work taking place in an open and inviting environment, with the audience entering into a sense of shared space with the performers. This could take the shape of “in the round”, ¾, or stadium style seating. The performers will also control all lighting changes both by operating a lighting console themselves on stage, and by moving around actual lighting fixtures and cabling to new parts of the room. A basic sound system / speakers is required and that sound is played live on "stage" during the performance by the sound designer and other performers.
Technical Residency
1 day
Artist Name
Company 605
Location
Vancouver, BC (Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations)
Contact Person
Francesca Piscopo – francesca@company605.ca
Email
francesca@company605.ca
Website