INK (2004)

2009 CanAsian International Dance Festival

May 6 - 9, 2009
Fleck Dance Theatre (formerly Premiere Dance Theatre)
207 Queens Quay West, 3rd Floor, Toronto

INK (2004)
Choreographer: Andrea Nann
Performers: Alison Denham, Kate Holden, Andrea Nann
Visual Artist: Wayne Ngan

Andrea Nann collaborates with visual artist Wayne Ngan to create INK, a work for three dancers inspired by the transcendent art of Chinese painting and calligraphy.

As performed by the excellent Alison Denham, Kate Holden and Nann, the first part is very sculptured. Gzowski has imitated Chinese musical chords replete with bells and gongs, against which, first Nann, then the other two, perform slow, beautiful and elegiac contortions to cleverly mimic ink characters being drawnthe choreographer uses Gzowski's faster, rhythmic music to bring all three women together in a synchronized, energetic trio, and we realize that they collectively have become the brush, and that Ngan's characters rolling across the screens are stylizations of the dancing body. Like all Nann's works, INK is beautifully thought-out and crafted. Paula Citron - The Globe and Mail

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• Asian
• Dance
• Festival
• Theatre
• Toronto