Ottawa Dance Directive presents Movement Stories / Kathryn Ricketss & Lana Morton

Ottawa Dance Directive presents
Movement Stories / Kathryn Ricketss & Lana Morton

October 3 & 4 2024 / 7:30 pm / ODD BOX - 2 Daly Avenue, Ottawa/ Door opens at 7pm

Tickets: http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/odd-presents-movement-stories-by-kathryn-ricketts-lana-morton-tickets-1004675440287

An evening of character driven works inhabited by Kathryn Ricketts (Saskatchewan) and Lana Morton (Ottawa). A sometimes humorous, fully physical look at the “shoulds” in our lives.

Oh what a world
Choreography & dancer Kathryn Ricketts
Rufus is a retired clown in a 3 pieces suit calling attention to the natality in dissonance and error. Rufus reminds us not only of the value but the necessity of failure and risk taking and urges us to see the world for what it is and to peel away the “shoulds” in our lives.

Hal and the Hoarder
Choreography, performance and music Kathryn Ricketts
Hal sports a beige fortrel jacket embellished with brown braid and boasting a hand embroidered emblem claiming him as a Regina exhibition dignitary this is accompanied with a hat blazoned with a bronze bull. He delivers a range of eulogies in the form of an auctioneer; “going once, going twice, gone!” Hal disrupts the expected content from an auctioneer and instead creates a tender attention and tension in tribute to lives lived. Hal finds the heart in Eulogies that journey from this quantitative summary to what really matters about the person remembered.

Re purposing Harlequin Romance
Choreography & dancer Kathryn Ricketts
Music & Poetry Lyn Vasey
Pages from Harlequin Romance novels alternated with blank white paper and housed in old floppy discs is my invitation to the undiscovered poet. I ask participants to circle the words that pop out from the romantic text and transfer them in the form of a spontaneous poem. Lyn Vasey, poet and composer, played with this invitation which resulted in 26 poetic renderings with sound and image. This performance presents 5 of my response improvisations.

Autres Fréquences (Other Frequencies)
Choreography & performance Lana Morton
Music Fred Levac
Autres Fréquences reflects on an woman who is in an axis turn; her body and mind seek to find her vital essence. She hears the ancestral call of the wild woman.

Artists Biobraphies
Kathryn Ricketts has been working for the past 45 years in the field of dance, theatre and visual arts, performing and teaching throughout Europe, South America, Africa, Australia and Canada. Her work in studios, galleries, theatres and environmental sites focuses on social /political issues with dance, theatre, text and visual art as the languages. Her Doctoral research furthered this into areas of literacy, embodiment and cultural studies with a method she has coined Embodied Poetic Narrative. She is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education in the University of Regina as the chair of the Dance area. She runs The Listening Lab, a visual and performing arts ‘incubator’ and presents exhibitions and performances in her loft in the John Deere Tractor Building. Since her arrival in Regina, 2014, she has been active on community boards and actively taught and created through several studios in the city. Her, research , teaching and service continues to thrive within dance/theatre performative scholarship and she continues to be active in her collaborations globally with her multi-media and interdisciplinary performances.
Lana Morton is the Associate director and Production manager of Ottawa Dance Directive. She is the founder of SERIES DANCE 10, a presentation series that now has more than 51 productions in Ottawa. With a bachelor's degree in contemporary dance from the Université du Québec à Montréal, she has been working the Ottawa-Gatineau dance community since 1995 as a performer, choreographer, artistic collaborator, teacher and producer.