Enters and Exits - April 28, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO0oikyhVV4

COPY: a movmeent based installation

Copy - A movement based installation from Justine A. Chambers on Vimeo.

Created by: Justine A. Chambers and Josh Hite
In Collaboration with: James Proudfoot, Dennis Rosenfeld, Meghan Goodman, Vanessa Goodman, Jane Osborne, Laura Avery, Katy Harris-McLeod, Molly McDermott
Artistic Monitor: M. Simon Levin

April 18, 2011 - Enters and Exits research Western Front

Enters and Exits - research from Justine A. Chambers on Vimeo.

Enters and Exits (working title)

Enters and Exits is an observation of quotidian liminal spaces and the behaviours and acts that occur within them. The work is being created as a performance-based installation combining choreography with large-scale sculpture and lighting design. Marc Auge refers to these spaces as ‘non-places’ – ‘the ambivalent space that has none of the familiar attributes of place - for instance, it incites no sense of belonging'. My fascination with theses spaces lies both with the architectural elements of the space itself and its human contents. The interstitial nature of these spaces somehow invites what is commonly private behaviour in a public space....this is where the dance lies for me....the swing between private and public behaviours.

In observation of these behaviours a number of narratives are present. Through the subversion of these physical behaviours (using the tasks of reorganization, repatterning, and distilling the movements...even creating an 'exquisite' corpse of physical acts) I am curious about what new narratives may or may not arise....is the order in which we see the actions necessary to create an intended narrative? Can this subversion obliterate narrative? As of today these are the questions I'm asking myself.

Enters and Exits (working title) movement research

Untitled from Justine A. Chambers on Vimeo.

Interpreter: Tiffany Tregarthen

Enters and Exits (working title) movement research 2

Enters and Exits (working title) movement research 2 from Justine A. Chambers on Vimeo.

Enters and Exits (working title) movement research

Exits and Enters (working title) movement research from Justine A. Chambers on Vimeo.

Initial movement research with dance artist Tiffany Tregarthen. An exploration of liminal spaces and 'non places' (Auge). Movement vocabulary is taken from acts and behaviors of those on public transit, transit platforms, elevators, airports and at intersections. Movement structres play with repetition and subversion

Solos

Justine Chambers Solos from Justine A. Chambers on Vimeo.

Line #1
May 2007
Dances for a Small Stage

On Any Given Day
August 2009
Dances for a Small Stage

Choreographed and Performed by Justine A. Chambers

Copy - Documentation July 18-20

Copy from josh hite on Vimeo.

Shot by: Dennis Rosenfeld
Edited by: Josh Hite

COPY - Dance Lab images January 2010

One + The Other - excerpts

COPY RESEARCH: January 8, 2010

COPY - Studio Showing January 15, 2010

DanceLab studio showing: Justine Chambers and Josh Hite, Jan 15

Justine Chambers and digital video artist, Josh Hite, are currently creating Copy, a multi-disciplinary and participatory work that explores duplication, mimicry, degeneration and repetition. The piece reorganizes traditional expectations of the theatre and the lobby spaces, and proposes a co-creation between both dancers and viewers.

The collaborators are:

M. Simon Levin - artistic monitor

Dennis Rosenfeld - software design and application

James Proudfoot - lighting design

Meghan Goodman, Vanessa Goodman, Katy Harris McLeod, Jane Osborne-interpreters

Erica Trivett - rehearsal direction.

Molly McDermott, Laura Avery - apprentices

This studio showing is presented as part of The Dance Centre’s DanceLab program. Friday January 15, 5-7pm at Scotiabank Dance Centre.

Admission free: all welcome.

On Any Given Day

One + the Other

One + The Other Mutable Subject w/Justine A. Chambers

Embodying the hand positions and holding patterns in the drawings/paintings of Egon Schiele, Justine A. Chambers and Deanna Peters combine forces in One + The Other, an other-worldly look at what is behind the faces that we show. Taking ideas from Erving Goffman’s writings about ‘front’ and ‘back’ stage in the theatre of everyday life, this duet explores the form of the duet in how two bodies in space can relate the complexity of one’s self.

For One + The Other Justine and Deanna researched independently towards creating solos on one another that were combined to form a duet. It is through investing in our relationships - dancer-choreographer, choreographer-choreograher, dancer-dancer, dancer-teacher, teacher-teacher - that we are strengthening our individual processes while simultaneously developing a shared process. Our work is fueled by challenging each other's beliefs surrounding choreography and a shared interest in the dramaturgical metaphor of the self.

One + The Other is currently in its third phase of creation; phases one and two were supported by Fortier Danse Créations, MovEnt and The Dance Centre. Phase three has been supported by Free Flow Dance and Here To Go at The Cultch. We are using each of these modular creation periods as an opportunity to experiment towards a final version to be performed in 2010 and beyond; we are pleased to announce that New Dance Horizons in Regina will be presenting the full-length work in February 2010.

What the press said:
"a mesmerizing clockwork rhythm of repetition, stops, and starts...it wove a spell" (Janet Smith, The Georgia Straight)
"Bursting with eccentric vitality and a spectacularly idiosyncratic coordination of movement" (Roger Wayne Eberle, Review Vancouver)