A Study for Enters and Exits #2

Vancouver Art Gallery – FUSE
November 9, 2012
Interpreters: Justine A. Chambers, Alison Denham, Tiffany Tregarthen
Lighting Design: James Proudfoot

a study for enters and exits #1

EDAM: Shifting States
April 21, 2012
Interpreters: Justine A. Chambers, Alison Denham, Tiffany Tregarthen
Lighting Design: James Proudfoot
Sound design: Kristen Roos

a study for enters and exits is an iteration of a larger work, Enters and Exits, currently in progress. Transposing the gestures and social behaviours from liminal spaces (waiting rooms, corridors, platforms, and lobbies) the work is physically situated in doorways between the front and back stage of the theatre. The gestures are reorganized by the specific architectural imposition of the theatre, subverting the narrative of their origin.

“Chambers explores unspectacular movement vocabularies, privileging the every day over the virtuosic dancing body audiences are accustomed to viewing.” (Rehearsal Research – Notes on a Residency by Sarah Todd)

enters and exits – excerpts of a work in progress

The Dance Centre: Dance Lab/technical residency
March 5-8, 2012
created by: Justine A. Chambers
in collaboration with lighting designer James Proudfoot & interpreter Tiffany Tregarthen
documented by: Josh Hite

The Western Front: rehearsal and research residency
April 2011