MascallDance
Privilege@Home
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MascallDance is a creation, production, and education endeavour with 30+ seasons of works; many with extensive touring lives. “Our projects have blossomed from the two years of conversations about touring and audience relationship. The cancellations and shifts have actually opened up to new possibilities” -Jennifer Mascall, Artistic Director. Recently, we have pivoted to focus on art as social action with the audience as collaborators. After 50 years of creation, Jennifer still feels like she has just started her path as an artist. So her perspective is driven by curiosity. Annually we offer residencies, intensives, and workshops based on where our own body of knowledge meets the interests of participants. Our most influential teachers this year were dance artists, particle physicists, indigenous elders, Rabbis, and climate scientists. MascallDance is looking to build relationships with presenters now for three projects with a focus on: The Impossible has Already Happened, touring fall 2023.
Privilege@Home
A dancer and a concert pianist pull up to your front door and present you a five-minute dance accompanied by Beethoven’s Waldstein Concerto played for you live on the back of a pick-up truck. Privilege at Home came about in direct response to COVID. Live performance and neighborhoods - what better antidote to COVID isolation fatigue? Visiting several places a night, with audiences of 3-95 people, it was our most successful show of the pandemic and was able to impact people and their bubbles across the city. It all takes place outdoors in the place of your choosing, and we had as good an experience presenting at patio-restaurants as we did in private back yards. Privilege at home is a traveling delivery dance well suited for communities, gatherings or all sizes and major events. Next edition summer 2023.
Performance History
The Impossible Has Already Happened NZ Tour March/April 2023
Privilege@Home 2023 - July 2023
The Impossible Has Already Happened Canadian Tour Fall 2023
Project Details
Project created by: Instigator: Jennifer Mascall
Key Collaborators: Rachel Iwaasa, Ralph Escamillan, Alexa Mardon, Eowynn Enquist, Erika Mitsuhashi, Santi Ainslie.
Audience: The show is suitable for all people.
Length in minutes: 15-20 minutes pulling up and leaving, we promise.
Space required: Fits anywhere you can fit a truck really.
Preparation required:
General technical requirements: No tech needed, only a parking space and a spot to dance.
Availability: November 2023
Number of performers on tour including choreographer: 4
Number of support staff on tour: 1
Community Engagement Activities
The whole concept of the performance is community outreach delivering the dance to peoples houses has shifted the audience relationship to watching.
"I was amazed at the ingenious idea of creating a highly mobile performing troupe by mounting a piano on a truck. It shows that creativity and artistic work can still thrive and be brought to people's doorsteps even amidst a global pandemic. I greatly enjoyed MascallDance's performance and look forward to another!"
Edgar Liao
“We couldn’t get over how lit up we were by the experience, amid Covid isolation. It brimmed with beauty, good spirits, greenspace, and music, wonder on the neighbourhood kids’ faces, and big grins on ours.”
Blake Johnson
MascallDance has yet to encounter a single unsuccessful performance of Privilege at Home.
Contact: MascallDance, Productition@mascalldance.ca
Agent/Manager: Tobias Macfarlane production@mascalldance.ca
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