Tuesday April 19 – Thu
rsday April 28
Open Tuesday – Saturday 12pm -5pm
Rehears al Research is a presentation of work made during the Rehearsal Re search residency\, an interdisciplinary visual art and dance residency that took place in the summer of 2010. Paul Kajander\, Justine Chambers and Hol ly Ward will present research and work-in-progress that came out of the Reh earsal Research production residency.
The intention of the Rehearsal Research residency was to investigate historical and current connections be tween avant garde art practice and modern dance practice. Stemming from res earch into the importance of dance and dancers in the development of artist run culture locally\, Rehearsal Research raises questions about contempora ry relationships between dance\, choreography and visual art practice. With the support of The Dance Centre and Western Front\, each artist conducted research\, and used production and performance facilities towards the creat ion of a new work.
Paul Kajander worked within the s pace of The Dance Centre\, using the studio spaces to produce several movem ent studies on video\, and one single channel video work titled What Self-K nowledge Is \, investigates the relationship between narrative and movement \, using an ensemble cast of actors and dancers. Justine Chambers worked ou t of Western Front’s Grande Luxe Hall to develop choreography around a seri es of free standing sculptural structures\, tentatively titled Enters and E xits. Emerging from an interest in quotidian movement and human gesture\, Chambers’ sculptural apparatus - shaped like a series of doorframes – suppo rts a developing choreographic study of how we perform in “non places” or “ in-between” space. Holly Ward worked at the Dance Centre to produce researc h around the Loheland colony\, a communal education institution for women\, established in 1919\, whose activities ranged from training girls to becom e physical education instructors to breeding championship Great Danes. Ward worked with a choreographer and a Great Dane to produce photographic and v ideo movement studies\, based around the utopian mythologies of a the Lohel and Colony of women.
The research and work-in-progress from the Rehea rsal Research residency will be presented in the Grand Luxe Hall from April 19- April 28\, accompanied by an essay about the project by Sarah Todd. A closing reception and live performance by Justine Chamber s will take place on the evening of April 28.
With the support of the Killy Foundation and the Audain Endowment for Curatorial Studies throu gh the Department of Art History\, Visual Art and Theory in collaboration w ith the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at The University of British Co lumbia.
Rehearsal Research would not have been possible without the g enerous support of The Dance Centre and the Western Front Society.
For more information please contact Sarah Todd at sarahannetodd@gmail.com or visit http://front.bc.ca/mediaarts/events/3395
Curated by MA CCST candidate Sarah Todd currently a student in the UBC Department of Art History\, Visual Art and Theory CCST program. Paul Kajander graduated from the AHVA MFA progra m in 2007.
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