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Vancouver’s MOVE: the company Returns Home for a Red Nocturnal Tour of British Columbia
November 01, 2011
Vancouver, BC — November 1, 2011
Joshua Beamish and the dancers of MOVE: the company are back home in BC, returning from overwhelmingly successful engagements in New York City, Bangkok and Montreal, and are performing their mixed-piece program entitled “The Red Nocturnal” in five cities across the province. Beamish and his 24 dancers will be performing in Chilliwack, Kelowna, Nelson, Vancouver and Nanaimo from November 11th to the 26th.
MOVE: the company’s recent NYC performance at the Joyce SoHo was described as “one of the most gratifying evening’s of dance presented on New York’s downtown arts scene this season” – Backstage Magazine.
MOVE: the company's new program “The Red Nocturnal”, is sure to rock the contemporary ballet world with repertoire that includes a re-imagined version of The Red Nocturnal, a physically demanding tango ballet en pointe originally created for Ballet Kelowna, and Les Oiseaux, a barefoot take on the traditional classical ballet narratives of Swan Lake and Firebird. The evening is completed by Artistic Director Joshua Beamish's new creation Atonement, which features a cast of ten male and eleven female dancers. Atonement was first developed at New York City Ballet's New York Choreographic Institute on the students of the School of American Ballet. The Bangkok International Festival for Dance and Music commissioned this program, in partnership with the Canadian Embassy, to celebrate 50 years of Canadian-Thai political relations. The company has invited the local Thai Dance Company to perform a traditional Thai piece as a program opener for their upcoming performance in Vancouver. In Nanaimo, MOVE: the company has invited KYDC Dancers (Nanaimo), True Colours Youth Group (Courtney), Helix Dance Theatre (Parksville) and Fizzik'l (Victoria) to open the performance, as a means of connecting local emerging performers with the professional artists of our province.
Tour dates and locations are as follows:
Date: November 11th
City: Chilliwack
Venue: Chilliwack Cultural Centre
Tickets: www.chilliwackculturalcentre.ca
Date: November 12th & 13th
City: Kelowna
Venue: Rotary Centre for the Arts
Tickets: www.rotarycentreforthearts.com(VIP tickets available via h.aucoin@movethecompany.com)
Date: November 19th
City: Nelson
Venue: Capitol Theatre
Tickets: www.capitoltheatre.bc.ca
Date: November 25th
City: Vancouver
Venue: Vogue Theatre
Tickets: www.voguetheatre.com(VIP tickets available via h.aucoin@movethecompany.com)
Date: November 26th
City: Nanaimo
Venue: Port Theatre
Tickets: www.porttheatre.com
About MOVE: the company
In just six short years, Vancouver’s MOVE: the company has emerged as one of Western Canada’s most prolific dance companies. Founded in 2005 by current Artistic Director, Joshua Beamish, the company has performed across North America at venues such as Montreal’s Tangente and Studio 303, NYC’s Joyce SoHo and San Francisco’s The Garage. At home, the company has recently been presented by the Made in BC: Dance On Tour Program, The VIDF, Dancing on the Edge and the Chutzpah Festival, among others. MOVE: the company recently received the distinction of a commission from the Canadian Embassy in Washington, DC, as well as the only choreographic residency ever awarded to a Western Canadian by the Djerassi Program in San Francisco, CA. The company most recently performed at the 15th Anniversary of the International Ballet Festival in Miami and then continued on to the Quinzena de Danca Festival in Portugal. In October 2010, MOVE: the company had the honour of participating as the only non-Aboriginal Canadian dance company selected by curators Cirque du Soleil for WORLD EXPO 2010 in Shanghai, China, performing the Closing Gala of the Canadian Cultural Pavilion. The company recently performed at the Bangkok International Festival for Dance & Music in October 2011, and at the Canadian Embassy in Brunei, after a successful return engagement at the Joyce SoHo in NYC.
About Joshua Beamish, Artistic Director/Choreographer
Joshua Beamish, Artistic Director of MOVE: the company, began dancing under the direction of his mother Loretta Lachner in Edmonton, Alberta and continued his training in Kelowna, BC. Upon moving to Vancouver, Joshua began his career as an assistant choreographer, and dancer for various feature films and television shows. Outside of MOVE: the company, his works have recently been performed by Toronto Dance Theatre, Halifax Dance, Ballet Kelowna, Dance Saskatchewan, the Universities of Alberta and Missouri, Ballet Jorgen, the Bellingham Repertory Company, the Victoria School of Contemporary Dance and Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance in Kansas City. He is the 2009 recipient of a City of Vancouver Mayor's Arts Award, a 2008 Globe and Mail Dance Award and of artistic residencies at the Scotiabank Dance Centre, Drive Dance Centre, the Shadbolt Centre, the Sunshine Coast Dance Society, the University of Alberta, the Norman Rothstein and Clarke Theatres and the Banff Centre. Joshua also recently participated in a choreographic session facilitated by the New York Choreographic Institute, collaborating with the students of the School of American Ballet. In September 2010, he premiered new commissions for Sylvain Brochu and Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance and recently completed a term as Artist-in-Residence at Odyssey Dance Theatre in Singapore, in addition to choreographing the 2011 International Children’s Winter Games Opening Ceremonies event.
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