TOHU / Montréal Complètement Cirque Festival. Dansateliers 'FASE'. Photo credit Alexander Browne.
Dansateliers
FASE
Montréal, Quebec
Presented by
TOHU / Montréal Complètement Cirque Festival
In FASE, three performers explore social mechanisms and dynamics and invite the audience to participate in their experience. Through circus and dance, the performers build, spin and swirl around each other.
Your body is an amazing ecosystem, living within a little society that again is part of the world.
From identifying the tiniest particle to grasping our entire existence, humans are always busy trying to understand the world. No matter which lens we look through, zooming in or out, life is an ongoing process of change. All we need to do to be a part of that, is breathe. Everything else is optional.
FASE is an invitation to share an imaginary space together. Three performers explore mechanisms and systems with their bodies, merging tangible structures into ecosystems and social dynamics. What does it mean to be part of something? How do we exist together? For a moment we all become a part of the performance FASE. A memory that we facilitate and maintain only for as long as it matters.
Kim and Marta met in 2015. Their different backgrounds in contemporary dance and circus sparked a blooming collaboration. During the last year they have been creating their own movement vocabulary, diving into the possibilities and qualities they find within this symbiosis, exploring their identity across languages. This has naturally led them into creating work together, creating a space where they can go beyond the frames of their disciplines and dive into the physical communication in between them. Now working closely together with Dansateliers (NL), Festival Circolo (NL) and Dansearena nord (NO) they are making work in Norway and the Netherlands.
Vincent Kollar is a contemporary circus performer. He currently works as a performer, as part of collective projects and is also an avid teacher and rigger. He is an expert of the art of Meteor manipulation, an ancient Chinese circus discipline. His performative work is based on a rich hybridity of circus and dance skills, a great attention to detail and a very natural/organic sense of presence and choreography. His presence fills the stage with a lot of energy and pure passion.
Dansateliers is an independent house for the development of contemporary dance and a home for dance artists, who each develop their very own artistic form, language and signature. Next to that, Dansateliers initiates projects and research possibilities to develop knowledge and unfold undiscovered potential for a dance artists’ practice in the world of today in order to broaden work opportunities.
Currently Dansateliers works with associate artists Connor Schumacher, Marta & Kim and Ingrid Berger Myhre, next to dance artists with whom they engage on a temporary or project basis.
