Dance @ Nextfest Program 3: DANCE IN PROGRESS 

I Remember
choreographed by Jamie Stock

“I Remember” is a depiction of how our body moves through the sweet feelings of nostalgia. A certain place, a particular noise or a special song. How do you want to move your body when you recollect your childhood? How does your body bring emotions to you that have felt distant? Maybe your body remembers before your brain remembers. Our body is always with us for every faint or distinct memory that may wave through.

Push & Pull
choreographed by Aidan Fedun

This piece was originally created as a final choreography assignment for a university course in the fall. This battle of changing your personality/interests due to societal pressure and disagreement has been very relevant throughout my life, even to this day. Push & Pull will show a very physical and emotional journey that an individual goes through when experiencing this feeling of society pushing back on your hopes in dreams. But in the end, coming to this neutral area of self-acceptance and not changing for anyone.

Featuring Aidan Fedun and Darya Ivanova

Vanitas
choreographed and performed by Sarah Dolman

“Vanitas” is a type of still life painting representing the morality and transcendence of life, pleasure, and death. This piece is an exploration of the human body as a brush on a canvas, and the various colours of life one goes through. By creating a painting live onstage, this dance asks the audience what the point of art is within our lives: What and who do we create for? And, what is worth leaving behind when we are gone?

Vitruvian Woman: more than just a body
directed by Rose Rosé

An interwoven cabaret that blends burlesque and modern dance with poetry and the creation of mess to explore the dehumanization of the female body. For this work in progress our dancers ask you to allow yourself to surrender to art while reckoning with the cost of its creation. Are we more than what we provide for others, are we more than what the world takes from us, are we more than just bodies in space?