Radical System Art
Momentum of Isolation MOI
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Founded in Vancouver in 2014, Radical System Art (RSA) and Artistic Director Shay Kuebler have been creating and touring works multiple works provincially, nationally and internationally. RSA fuses dance, theatre and martial arts with interactive technology and design to create impactful performances and interdisciplinary projects.
The company is guided by a principle of harnessing opposition to find strength and balance: athleticism with artistry, structure with chaos, technique with instinct.
RSA believes collaboration is critical to reaching wider audiences. By creating with many unique and diverse artists, RSA looks to build work that speaks to more people. By integrating multiple art forms, company performances seek to balance out the presence of visual design, sound design and physical movement.
Artistic Director Shay Kuebler believes the performing arts are a transcendent form of storytelling. By weaving movement, sound and imagery together, we create a universal language that voices what can't be said with words.
Momentum of Isolation - MOI
MOI - MOMENTUM OF ISOLATION bases its scenes and performances around social isolation and loneliness. The overall performance explores the objective and subjective experiences of isolation/loneliness through the individual, the group and modern society - a society with shifting values and an ever-advancing digital life.
To shape a digital world on stage, MOI places interactive video and sound around the performers. These elements enhances ideas on how technology influences our perception and our lives, and that technology can both empower and disempower us.
Further distilling isolation, solo performances and the extended social isolation of one character on stage are critical to the impact of the show. Within MOI, one character's interactions are only with inanimate objects. Through puppeteering and stage-craft, the inanimate world comes to life, which highlights how isolation can disrupt our connection to reality. Our social bonds allow us to understand that we have an impact on what is around - that we exist.
Performance History
JANUARY 2019 - Performances of "Telemetry" within the Canada focus at Suzanne Dellal Centre Tel Aviv, Israel
FEBRUARY 2019 - Performances of "Telemetry" for Whitebird season in Portland, Oregon, USA
JULY 2019 - World Premiere of "Epilogos" with Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
JANUARY 2020 - France premiere with La Comete, Chalons-en-Champagne, France
FEBRUARY 2020 - Alberta/BC tour of "Epilogos"
MARCH 2020 - Vancouver International Dance Festival premiere of "Epilogos"
JULY 2020 - Dancing on the Edge Festival - Online Film & Live stage performance of "Momentum of Isolation - Chapter 1."
NOV 2020 - "Feasting on Famine" DanceForth digital initiatives film - National Arts Centre & The Dance Centre
JANUARY 2021 - "Figure Eights" Dance Centre artist-in-residence online performance
JULY 2021 - "Momentum of Isolation - the partitions " Dancing on The Edge Festival
NOV 2021 - "Momentum of Isolation" The International Chutzpah! Festival
APRIL 2022 - "Momentum of Isolation" La Comete FRANCE & Posthof Linz AUSTRIA
Project Details
Project created by: Radical System Art and Shay Kuebler
Key Collaborators:
PERFORMANCE
Keiran Bohay Aiden Cass Jade Chong Sarah Hutton Shay Kuebler Tia Kushniruk Nicole Pavia Nicolas Ventura Calder White
CHOREOGRAPHY
Shay Kuebler & Performers
PRODUCTION
M.O.I - MOMETUM OF ISOLATION By
Radical System Art
Artistic Director – Shay Kuebler
Sound Composition – Shay Kuebler & Paul Paroczai
Sound Design – Paul Paroczai
Video Design – Dan O’shea
Light Design – Rob Sondergaard & Electric Aura Design
Prop & Set Design – Chris White
Dramaturge & Rehearsal Director – Abbey Dutton
Production Coordination Assistance – Ace Martens & Arts Club Scene Shop Technical Direction – Debbie Courchene
PRE-PRODUCTION
Video Design – Eric Chad & Dan O’shea
Sound Design – Kate De Lorme, Shay Kuebler & Paul Paroczai
Performance & Choreography – Katie Lowen, Odile-Amélie Peters & Kennedy Knopf
Audience: General Audience
Length in minutes: 80 mins - Full Length
Space required: This work is built for a theatre but was simultaneously created for online performances, so can support both options.
Preparation required: Would need a pre-hang of lighting, prior to 1 day set-up & load-in and 2nd day for the performance
General technical requirements:
- Physical dance space of roughly 30' x 30' space
- 3-4 wings with 1 boom in each wing Stage Right and Left
- Traditional lighting plot and lighting inventory
- Black Marley dance floor to cover the physical performance space
- 7 chairs
RSA provides the specialized lighting, video, sound and prop/set elements
Availability: 2023/24 and 2024/25 seasons
Number of performers on tour including choreographer: 8
Number of support staff on tour: 3 support staff - Tech Director, Video/Sound Technology and Stage management
Community Engagement Activities
RSA values integrating and engaging the local community. This has included performances to "open" our performances by local high school and pre-professional dance programs; educational discussions and workshops with public schools; and opportunities for musicians to play for dance workshops and movement classes. We look to alway find greater opportunities to engage the public and different branches of the arts community.
RSA is given organizational and operation support through Belsher Arts Management. With BAM and RSA's 9 year history of touring BC, we look to build a strong dialogue with each community to discover what activities and corresponding compensation/fees are viable and efficacious.
Contact: Radical System Art, info@radicalsystemart.com
Agent/Manager: Brent Belsher, brent@belshers.ca
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