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THE
ARTISTS
Susan
Elliott (choreographer/performer) is the artistic director of
Anatomica. She held the position of dance artist in residence
at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre from 2000-04. Elliott
has been dancing professionally since 1989 and has worked for
many Vancouver companies and independent artists such as Lola
Dance, battery opera, The Holy Body Tattoo and DanStaBat, to
name a few. She has also had the great opportunity to tour around
the world and has danced in the work of international creators
Setsuko Yamada (Tokyo), Alexander Baervoets (Belgium), Damian
Munoz (Barcelona) and Kim Itoh (Tokyo).
Elliott began her choreographic work in 1998 and has since created
pieces ranging from solo to group work. She has taught Contact
Improvisation and contemporary dance techniques since 1994 and
has been on faculty at Main Dance for the past few years. She
continues to teach at EDAM and at summer intensives such as
WOW for Mascall Dance. In April 2004, Elliott premiered her
first full evening of work, I Seem To Be A Verb, commissioned
by the Vancouver East Cultural Centre.
Elliott is the recipient of grants from The Canada Council for
the Arts, The Vancouver Foundation and in 1999 was presented
with the first Isadora Award from the Dance Centre. She is a
certified yoga teacher and Thai massage practitioner, having
received her training in Thailand since 1998. This past spring
Elliott spent two months studying in Thailand with the support
of a Dancer Transition Resource Grant.
Ziyian Kwan (performer) is an independent dance artist who lives
in Vancouver. In the past fourteen years she has performed for
several independent choreographers and companies. Currently,
she maintains collaborations with Vancouver’s Anatomica,
Kokoro Dance and Mascall Dance, and with Montreal’s David
Pressault Danse. Since 1999, the five solos and duet that she
commissioned from Peter Bingham, Barbara Bourget, Susan Elliott,
John Ottman, David Pressault and Angelique Wilkie have been
performed at venues across Canada. Previously, Ziyian has danced
Susan’s work in I Seem To Be A Verb, Cloud Chamber, The
Bride Walked There and Crush.
Program
Notes:
Falls
the Shadow
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the emotion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men
In
this new solo work, award-winning choreographer and dancer Susan
Elliott
explores an uneasy dichotomy of motion, seeking to illuminate
the shadowlands
between action and reaction, intent and result. Is there an
existence outside the
conflicting tensions of modern life: an alternative beyond the
leisure society or an
. Over-stimulated world? By contrasting extremes of physicality
and employing the
language of both stillness and hyperactivity, Falls the Shadow
seeks to reveal what
The eye perceives subconsciously: the meaning found in transition.
At the Ready
At the Ready revisions The Bride Walked There, a solo created
in 2001 by Susan Elliott for dance artist Ziyian Kwan. Taking
her cue from the “readymade” installations of Marcel
Duchamp, Elliott fashions a piece that transforms pedestrian
movement into pure dance art, guiding audience members on a
journey from the mundane to the transcendent. Employing musical
phrasing, spoken word, repetition and tempo shifts, Elliott
and Kwan create a simple yet mesmerizing dance work that finds
grace in the everyday.
Shelter
This solo continues Elliott’s ongoing investigation and
curiosity regarding the human body as our first home, residence
or “shelter.” Our varying physical structures shelter
our emotions, intellect, intuition and needs-the body is a kind
of permanent residence in which to take refuge.
