Performers

The Space Between is a contemporary dance duet which explores intense physical states of nervousness and tension. With a physicality resembling stop motion animation, The Space Between addresses the increasingly difficult task of communicating in modern society.

Andrew is the co-founder of his company Wants & Needs danse. He has produced the popular dance events Piss in the Pool and Short&Sweet in Montreal for the past 5 years.

July 21 and 22, 8 pm
The Kirk, St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Queen's Rd.

Mouse and Man is based on the characters Lennie and George from the classic Steinbeck novel Of Mice and Men. At times humorous, at times heartbreaking Mouse and Man was inspired by the notion of the idiot savant in us all.

This Montreal based group consists of artists Audrée Juteau, Thea Patterson, Katie Ward and Peter Trosztmer. They have presented this first work at Studio 303 in Montreal as well as in Halifax and in New York City at the Joyce So.

July 21 and 22, 8 pm
The Kirk, St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Queen's Rd.

In Perfect Stranger, a man and a woman are confined in a closed space that becomes the witness of their need for both, intimacy and distance. This duet deals with our capacity to truly be close to one another as audience and performers share the same space.

Born and raised in Berlin, Isabel Mohn is now based in Montreal. A graduate of LADMMI, l'école de danse contemporaine in 1999, Isable has spend the past 10 years creating work that has been presented in Montreal and abroad.

July 22 and 23, 6 pm
Cochrane St United Church, Bannerman St. entrance.

Spatial Pull is a site-specific, structured improvisation in which dancers explore the physical contrasts of standing upright and tumbling down towards gravity. The effect is a meditative, melting human sculpture.

Gerry Morita is the artistic director of Mile Zero Dance and was recognized as Innovative Artistic Director of the Year in 2006. Morita brings Mile Zero Dance to larger and more diverse audiences with an open, yet artistically challenging style of work.

July 23 and 24, 12:30 pm
Stairs adjacent the Supreme Court, 309 Duckworth St.

fall/gift is both requiem and celebration for Kathleen's father Mike and sister Anne.Though sourced in the personal, the work speaks to the universal experience of loss, hope and the grey matter of memory.

Kathleen creates and performs dance in her home of Vancouver B.C. She is a founding member of CADA/BC and the 2003 recipient of the Isadora Award that recognizes an outstanding contribution to dance in Vancouver.

July 23 and 24, 8 pm
The Kirk, St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Queen's Rd.

Between Us is choreographed by Claudia Moore and performed by Tom Brouillette and Jennifer Lynn Dick. The work is a whimsical and highly physical duet. Victory is choreographed and performed by Jennifer Lynn Dick and is inspired by Wim Wenders' Far Away So Close, a musing on everyday acts of humanity.

Jennifer Lynn Dick is a Toronto-based dance artist who was born and raised in St John's. She has danced with the Desrosiers Dance Theatre and performed nationally and internationally with the company for over a decade.

July 23 and 24, 8 pm
The Kirk, St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Queen's Rd.

Four Quartets is an evening length solo work, a physical interpretation of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets. Dunn gives Eliot's meditations on time and being, a new substance and humanity that is both modernist and contemporary.

Deborah Dunn founded her own company

Trial & Eros

in Vancouver in the early 90s. The company has been touring nationally for the past twelve years. Deborah is now based in Montreal.

July 24 and 25, 6 pm
Wild Lily Dance Centre, 163 Water St.

The Rolling Parlour Cabaret is a compelling live show combining the critically acclaimed talents of Winnipeg songwriter / composer Christine Fellows and Toronto dance artist/choreographer Susie Burpee.

Susie Burpee creates works that showcase "fully human characters struggling for connection" (Toronto Star). She was awarded the K.M. Hunter Artist Award in 2006, and she received two Dora Mavor Moore awards for Outstanding Performance and Outstanding New Choreography (2005).

July 24 and 25, 9:30 pm
A1C Gallery, 8 Baird's Cove.

From Here to There (and back again): is an experimental dance video and a travelogue of Aimée's road trip in a camper van from Toronto to St John's.

Aimée is an improvising dancer, musician, gardener, writer and visual artist. She is the co-founded of Up Darling Contemporary Dance, and is the director of the multi-disciplinary performance series, A Month of Sundays.

July 23, 24, 25, 10:30 pm Eastern Edge Parking Lot.

In streamings Andrea Tucker creates an imaginary world that evokes images of constructed landscapes of awareness, both integrated and disintegrated. She is the widowed queen, she is the chrysalis, she is unknown.

Tammy trained at the School of Toronto Dance Theatre (Toronto), Maindance (Vancouver) and most recently with Eryn Dace Trudell and Sara Tilley. She loves to delve in to the choreographic process through improvisation and spontaneity. streamings marks the beginning of choreographing from the director's chair.

July 25 and 26, 8 pm
The Kirk, St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Queen's Rd.

The goal of The Research Project: The Encounter of Possibilities or The Death of Rock is to push the art of dance to the limit of its logic, to upset both the spectators' and the dancers' expectations.

One of her generation's most outstanding choreographers, Marie-Julie Asselin, Artistic Director of the Compagnie de la Tourmente, carries on her art since 1995. In 2003 she won the Community Choice Award at the Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival and in 2006 she received the Bourse Rideau award for her work Traqueurs.

July 25 and 26, 8 pm
The Kirk, St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Queen's Rd.

Festival of New Dance Showcase, Pippy Park Dance Festival. Various St. John's artists.

July 25 and 26, 2-4 pm
Pippy Park

This year we are pleased to present a collection of truly memorable provocative films choreographed and directed by Thea Patterson, Sharon Moore, Philip Szporer, Marlene Millar and Britt Randle. Featured dancers include Peter Trosztmer, Catherine Lipscombe and Caroline Niklas-Gordon among others.

July 26, 6 pm
A1C Gallery, 8 Baird's Cove.