move: the company
MOVE: the company to Perform at World Expo 2010 in Shanghai.
January, 2010
MOVE: the company is honoured to announce that they have been selected by the Ministry of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages to perform as part of Canada's cultural program at Expo 2010, which will run from May 1 to October 31, 2010, in Shanghai, China.
The company will be joining an elite group of Canadian performing and visual artists at the 6000 square metres Canada Pavilion, being cooperatively developed by Canada Heritage and Cirque du Soleil.
MOVE: the company is one of only two British Columbian performing arts organizations - and the only Western Canadian contemporary dance company - invited to perform at Expo. The company will perform four shows, from October 8-11, including the gala closing performance.
The company will be performing “Trap Door Party”, conceived, choreographed and directed by Artistic Director Josh Beamish. Created in 2007 and set to the music of Aphex Twin, the piece is an abstract, narrative look at six individuals, as they leave everything behind to start their own utopian society.
First premiered in Vancouver at the Scotiabank Dance Centre, the work has also been performed by the company in New York City, and has since been added to the repertoires of the Bellingham Repertory Company in Bellingham, Washington and the Wylliams / Henry Contemporary Dance Company in Kansas City, Missouri.
“We are thrilled and incredibly excited to be representing British Columbia as Western Canada’s contemporary dance company in China this summer”, states Beamish. “As a relatively young company, it is really satisfying to know that our unique dance style is garnering such attention, and that audiences everywhere are responding so positively to our energy and our creative vision.”
Currently the company is Artist in Residence at the Norman Rothstein Theatre and the Scotiabank Centre in Vancouver. The Expo performances this summer will cap an exciting season for Beamish and the company, which includes performances in Toronto, Montréal, Halifax, San Francisco and New York City.
