Contemporary dance returns to the Shadbolt Centre stage this coming week.
Company 605 is bringing its program In Circulation to the stage from Nov. 22 to 25, with 8 p.m. shows nightly.
The program draws from the company’s current repertoire, including excerpts from two recent full-length works, Albatross and Vital Few, plus the premiere of a new short piece.
“Each of these distinct works circle around the same current interests of 605’s artists: individuals united, a shared experience held between separate bodies, and moving as one,” says a write-up about the performance.
Albatross is described as a “driving duet,” created through an international collaboration with Brussels-based artist German Jauregui.
“This physically grueling piece pulls apart a single moment to dissect and experience its contents in expanded time,” says a write-up. “Like two parts of one’s self, in continuous motion and perpetual contact, two bodies inhabit a single person’s trajectory through a test of endurance.”
Vital Few is another collaboration, this one exploring the constant codependence and interrelation between six dancers.
“The work pushes the company into new physical territory to further explore the essence of unison and togetherness,” the write-up says.
The new short piece, yet to be titled, “distills the company’s current research around movement looping and repetition, exploring its inevitable transformation and deterioration over time.”
For more on Company 605, see www.605collective.com.
Tickets for the Shadbolt Centre shows are $36, or $15 for opening night on Wednesday. See tickets.shadboltcentre.com or call 604-205-3000.
