Company 605's Brimming blends live performance with live-feed cameras, at VIDF
Online and at the Orpheum Annex March 18 and 19, dancer Josh Martin re-explores the body as a container
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Created and performed by Company 605 artistic codirector Josh Martin, Brimming is a solo investigating the body as a container: a rigid frame holding in and concealing its stored inner contents.
Showing at the Vancouver International Dance Festival as a hybrid presentation on March 18 and 19, Brimming features both a live performance and live-feed cameras capturing the solo for online audiences—and, as projections, adding to the multidimensional perspective in the intimate theatre space.
The work imagines the body as a hollow interior space continuously shaped and reshaped, filled and emptied, and inhabited through different states. Martin appears as a performer trapped inside his own form, and the dance is a meeting of both the seen and unseen—the invisible contents that slosh up against the sides, pushing against the outer surface from beneath, and occasionally leaking under its pressure.
Brimming explores this shape we are in, how it holds us, and what may eventually spill out when the walls begin to bend.
In-person audiences will attend an intimate and immersive experience, roaming freely to explore different perspectives and proximity to the work as it unfolds in the Orpheum Annex space downtown. Live camera capture of the performance is projected into the space as additional vantage points, simultaneously broadcast for online streaming viewers.
Find tickets and more information here.
The Vancouver International Dance Festival continues with live and online performances from here and across Canada until March 26.
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