Privilege
MascallDance
Project Description
Just when you think you understand, words and music cast new meanings. Mascall and five outstanding performers dive into the elusive relationship between dance and other expressive forms. In the adventurous 70’s, Mascall joined fellow post-modernists in vigorously questioning the relationship of music and movement, building a spectacular note-for-note choreographic confrontation with the crashing magnificence of Beethoven’s later works – so difficult that it was never publicly performed! Mascall probed the interpretation of words and movement, influenced by Samuel Beckett’s elusive, apocalyptic writing: 24 random paragraphs, interpreted in movement. Movement’s play with the interpretation of evocative words brings flickering moods clearer…clearer and clearer… Long after post-modernism’s end, the rise and fall of contemporary dance and well into the present, as yet unnamed, dance revolution of expressionism, story and ethics, Mascall returns to these quests. PRIVILEGE responds with 2020 vision. Two windows into a riveting choreographic perspective gained through years of invention: an outpouring of trademark wit and innovative movement.
Company Profile
MascallDance is a creation/production company with 30 seasons of works under our belts. Our works adapt and change to numerous situations and evolving conditions and have been seen in Canada, Scotland, Italy and India. We’re a research and discovery enterprise, investigating movement and its intersection with other mediums, employing improvisation, experimentation, and somatic practice. We offer residencies, intensives, and workshops, fostering movement and choreographic knowledge in anyone curious about the body. The catalyst for our work is Jennifer Mascall, founder and Artistic Director. MascallDance is a resident of Left of Main in Vancouver’s Chinatown.
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Choreographer and Key Collaborators
Choreographer Jennifer Mascall
Performing Collaborators: Eowyn Enquist, Ralph Escamillan, Alexa Mardon, Erika Mitsuhashi, Marisa Gold.
Rehearsal Director: Daisy Thompson
Stage Management: Linzi Voth
Community Engagement
We offer workshops on interpretation with all agers, a workshop in interpreting use of objects, and round table discussions. We can provide community level somatic movement workshops, movement technique classes, performed lectures, invitations to discussions of the work and ideas surrounding it. Our offerings can be tailored to suit all levels and most needs.
Outreach Activities
In connecting with communities prior to and during our engagement, we are flexible and experienced, with a lengthy and varied touring background. We plan the visit with you. We anticipate that the work, discussion and/or workshops may be of special interest to art and music practitioners and audiences, classical music afficionados, students, dancers and dance audiences, and theatre practitioners, students and audiences. Podcast episodes on the development of the work are available in advance; the work is constructed to also be performed on-line On-line workshops for dancers, movers and physical performers can also be customized to groups in your community, offering insight into how the production works thematically, and hands-on experience of choreographic excerpts.
Past and
Upcoming performances
Premiere date and venue: 05/24/2022 PREMIERE of The Impossible has Already Happened, Wellington, New Zealand.
Past Performances: Performance History – highlights: 2002 Brutal Telling Traces of E. Carr Highland and Island Scotland tour 2003; Heart of a Peacock Monte Carlo 2004; Brutal Telling Traces of E. Carr Winnipeg MB and Peterborough ON 2006-7; WhaT,? Edinburgh, Newfoundland and Victoria BC 2009; Brutal Telling Traces of E. Carr Made in BC Tour 2011-12; The White Spider Made in BC Tour 2004-12; Homewerk school performance series and Made in BC mainstage tour 2015; Graft Edmonton, Victoria, and Seattle 2016; Graft Canada Dance Festival, Ottawa 2016; The Outliner, Premiere, Vancouver BC 2017; The Outliner Tour – Saltspring, Vancouver, Edmonton, Regina, Winnipeg 2018; OW Premiere, Vancouver BC 2019; Zaum Premiere, Vancouver BC 2020;
Upcoming Performances: Holiday Season Family BLOOM Residency, Vancouver, BC 2021; Privilege Premiere, Vancouver BC Upcoming: Announcing new dates and plans for three major productions (one of which is The Impossible has Already Happened) along with The Shift Symposium for Somatic Creation, a Gathering for movement teachers entitled T3 (Teachers Teaching Teachers), and other programming, including our choreographic residency program series BLOOM. Stay tuned at mascalldance.ca!
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photos: David Cooper
Project Details
Performance Type: CONTEMPORARY DANCE, TEXT, CLASSICAL MUSIC. Intended for theatrical presentation, Privilege is being created through ZOOM interaction, rehearsals in park settings, and studio work, reflecting shifting COVID-19’s safety requirements. A theatrical presentation of the work will be available. An alternative presentation model combining video and livestreamed exchange will be available. This work is adaptable to theatre, outdoor or alternate venues.This is a full-length work running 1 hour, constructed of two units: The Waldstein (working title) and Lessness. Both are currently in development.
Audience: Children/Family/General
Length in Minutes: 60 minutes
Number of Performers: 6
Number of Support Staff: 3
Per-Performance Fee Rang: Negotiable
Fee Range with Outreach Activities: Negotiable
Available to Tour (Season): Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Spring 2023, Summer 2023
Other performance information: Tech Specs and reviews will be available upon premiere of the work. Please use the following photo credits: Photo credits: Privilege Dancers: Eowynn Enquist, Erika Mitsuhashi; Choreographer: Jennifer Mascall; Photo: David Cooper;
Technical Requirements: The performance involves spoken text and recorded sound. It requires Microphones, Props, Sound/Amplification system. It has a portable set and requires a Marley floor.
Technical Residency Needed: 12 hours in advance of performance.
Contact Information:
Company/Artist Name: MASCALLDANCE
Location: Vancouver, BC
Contact Person: Chris Adams
Email / Courriel: chris@mascalldance.ca
operations@mascalldance.ca
Website: www.mascalldance.ca