Moving Sound unites a trio of dancers and a trio of musicians for an improvised encounter, January 19

Belle Spirale Dance Projects and the Campbell Kahre Varty Trio collaborate on the intimate performance

By Gail Johnson

Jack Campbell. Photo by SD Holman

Belle Spirale Dance Projects and the Campbell Kahre Varty Trio present Moving Sound on January 19 from 4 pm to 5:30 pm at the Scotiabank Dance Centre

AN INTIMATE PERFORMANCE will allow audiences to witness a live collaborative process as a trio of dancers and a trio of musicians unite to create four distinct pieces in a real-time improvised encounter.

Moving Sound is an initiative of Belle Spirale Dance Projects and the Campbell Kahre Varty Trio. Dancers Alexis Fletcher, Rebecca Margolick, and Justin Rapaport will join forces with musicians Jack Campbell, Andreas Kahre, and Alex Varty for a show at the Scotiabank Dance Centre on January 19.

Fletcher is co-founder and co-artistic director of Belle Spirale Dance Projects (with her husband, Sylvain Senez), who danced with Ballet BC for 14 years before becoming a guest artist and artist-in-residence with the company. She launched her freelance career in 2020.

Rapaport is a freelance dance artist and choreographer who is also a former Ballet BC artist. Most recently, he has worked with Kidd Pivot, Anne Plamondon, and PARA.MAR Dance Theatre. He has a bachelor’s of fine arts from The Juilliard School.

Margolick dances with Andrea Peña & Artists in Montreal. Having graduated from New York University and trained at Arts Umbrella, she is an artistic associate of BC Movement Arts Society, a non-profit based in Sointula on Malcolm Island. Her dance works have been presented in Turkey, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Mexico, Israel, the U.S., and Canada.

Campbell is a violinist and composer who works in France, the U.K., Germany, Switzerland, the U.S., and across Canada. His compositional projects build bridges between contemporary classical music and visual arts, dance, and theatre.

Kahre, who will be playing percussion, is an interdisciplinary artist whose work combines images, sound, and text in various configurations. With a background in visual art, film, and music, he has created installations, sound art, and performance projects in collaboration with theatre, dance, and media artists across Canada. He is the artistic director of the Gabriola Institute of Contemporary Art and teaches sound at Simon Fraser University’s Fraser International College. 

Varty—who is a regular contributor to Stir—plays electric and acoustic guitars and has appeared with artists such as John Oswald, Randy Bachman, bill bissett, and Art Bergmann. He is a founding member of the Gabriola Microsynth Orchestra, and his most recent studio project was Pacifica Koral Reef, a recording of Wadada Leo Smith’s music made with fellow guitarist Henry Kaiser and the composer himself on trumpet. 

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