Isabelle Kirouac’s Meta/fauna takes the stage at Scotiabank Dance Centre, July 8

Piece presented with Dancing on the Edge Festival stars shape-shifting creatures

SPONSORED POST BY The Dance Centre

Isabelle Kirouac’s Meta/fauna. Photo by Delia Brett

The Dance Centre and the Dancing on the Edge Festival present the premiere of Meta/fauna, a unique new work by interdisciplinary artist Isabelle Kirouac, on July 8 at 6 pm at the Scotiabank Dance Centre.

The Quebec-born dancer’s highly original and distinctive creations defy categorization, encompassing contemporary dance, contact improvisation, acrobatic stilts, and physical theatre.

Utilizing modular costumes, a scaffold, stilts, and sounds, Meta/fauna shows two shape-shifting creatures evolving in their ephemeral habitat. It portrays ever-changing landscapes, large animals hybridizing with fossilized plants, bleached corals, metallic structures, bones, and the ghosts of those who have disappeared. 

Performed by Kirouac and Levana Prud'homme, the work is a collaboration with choreographer Delia Brett, designer Tamara Unroe, composer-performers Stefan Smulovitz and Christopher Kelly, lighting designer Jamie Sweeney, and cultural anthropologist-consultant Michael Hathaway. It was supported in part through The Dance Centre’s long-running DanceLab interdisciplinary research program.

Details and tickets are available here.

Post sponsored by The Dance Centre.