SERIES DANCE 10 #51 / ‘’Accumulation’’ by Co. ERASGA Dance

SERIES DANCE 10 #51 / ‘’Accumulation’’ by Co. ERASGA Dance

October 24,25,26 / 7 :30pm / ODD BOX / Doors open at 7 pm

ODD BOX / Ottawa Dance Directive / Arts Court / 2 Daly Avenue Ottawa

Tickets: http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/series-dance-10-51-presents-company-erasga-dance-society-tickets-1003100860677


Accumulation is a transcontinental performance project by Co.ERASGA Dance in collaboration with the participating artists from New York and France. This timely, creative project aims to fuse the hybridity of multiple disciplines towards performance perspective and experience. Body, dance, movements, sound, costume, sculpture and visual objects in the making and experiencing for the stage.

The piece seeks to question our human relational, place and time on environmental concerns faced by an alarming future never before for our natural world.

The project sets human-made objects, debris and nature’s remnants as our surroundings, an encounter of our human consumptions and excess. The deterioration of the natural world is set centre stage, a landscape for a hunting, moving dance and sculptural choreography.

Accumulation responds to and challenges the creative venture towards art and environmental stewardship. Can we raise and push creative minds, resources, practices and concerns to attune our creativity to an alarming and devastating fragile ecologies?

Choreography and Performance: Alvin Erasga Tolentino (Canada)
Composer/Musician: Emmanuel Mailly (France)
Sculptor/Visual Artist: Marc Gerenton (France)
Costume Designer: Meagan Woods (New York, USA)
Lighting: Tory Ip (Canada)
Stage Management: Yasuhiro Okada (Canada)

Alvin Erasga Tolentino is one of the most active Asian/Canadian dance artists
contributing 3 decades to the dance milieu and internationally as a choreographer and dancer. He is the founding and artistic director of Vancouver based Co.ERASGA.
Exploring issues of gender, identity, hybridity, cultural re-dress and cross-cultural collaborations, Tolentino's choreographic works in SOLA, BATO/stone, MINORI, VOLT, FIELD, SHE SAID, OrienTik/Portrait, BODYGlass, PARADIS/PARADISE, ADAMEVE, SHADOW MACHINE, Expose, Shifting Geography, Colonial, Unwrapping Culture and Collected Traces and Still Here, as well with his award-winning explorations of dance on film, have made him an ambassador for dance in Canada reaching 4 continents in the last 2 decades.