Karen Kaeja and Allen Kaeja in Lasterday. <\/i>(photo by Kendra Epik)<\/i><\/p>\n
Featuring more than 30 performances June 13-22, Dancing on the Edge audiences will see world premi\u00e8res, Western Canadian debuts and works-in-progress. This year\u2019s lineup includes the Vancouver premi\u00e8re of Lasterday<\/i>, with choreography by Hanna Kiel, music by Adam Campbell, lighting by Gavin McDonald and performances by Kaeja d\u2019Dance, Toronto Jewish community members Karen and Allen Kaeja.<\/p>\n
Lasterday<\/i> is part of EDGE 1, which also features Tiger Princess Dance Projects and Calder White. Performances are June 16 and 17, 7 p.m., at the Firehall Arts Centre.<\/p>\n
Lasterday<\/i> delves into the relationship of two individuals who carry different memories and perceptions of the same events from their past \u2013 sense of timeline, emotional impacts and interactions \u2013 revealing how they remember and interpret their shared history. Lasterday<\/i> is part of the Kaeja d\u2019Dance\u2019s lifeDUET<\/i> commissioning series. The works explore the Kaejas\u2019 creative and personal partnership. Many duets have toured across the world through Canada and to Spain, India, England, Japan, Mexico, Venezuela and Israel. (For more, see jewishindependent.ca\/life-stories-told-in-dance.)<\/p>\n
Kiel is a Dora Award-winning artist hailing from Seoul, South Korea, who made Vancouver her home in 1996. Founder and artistic director of Human Body Expression, Kiel is also a resident choreographer at Canada\u2019s J\u00f6rgenDance.<\/p>\n
Campbell is a sound designer, composer, percussionist and singer-songwriter. Originally from Summerside, PEI, and currently living in Stratford, Ont., he has worked as sound designer\/composer with many festivals.<\/p>\n
McDonald has designed lighting for more than 25 years, across North America and the United Kingdom, and teaches lighting and media design at York University.<\/p>\n
Karen Kaeja\u00a0is an award-winning choreographer, performer and educator. The heart of her research, creation and writing concentrates on the agency of touch. She develops platforms for collaborative relationships between dancers and everyday people, highlighted in her Porch View Dances festival and concept. She is currently co-choreographing with Roshanak Jaberi for Jaberi Dance Theatre\u2019s international collaboration with Sweden \u2013 Architecture of Violence<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Allen Kaeja\u00a0is an award-winning choreographer and dance film director. The child of a refugee and Holocaust survivor, he has created 30 years of Holocaust-inspired stage and film works. He has created more than 210 stage works and choreographed\/directed 35 films. His works have been featured in commercials, films and festivals around the world. He teaches Kaeja Elevations and Dance Film master classes worldwide.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n About the overall DOTE program this year, the festival\u2019s artistic producer, Donna Spencer, said, \u201cThis year, we are pleased to honour one of Canada\u2019s great dance and contact improvisation creators, Peter Bingham, and share his work with the presentation of EDAM\u2019s Dead Weighting<\/i>. Peter\u2019s body of work has had such an impactful ripple on many of the artists participating in this year\u2019s festival. We are also excited to offer what was a work-in-progress at last year\u2019s festival as a world premi\u00e8re this year with Company 605\u2019s lossy<\/i>; and to bring new choreographic voices such as Anya Saugstad, Clala Dance Project and Simran Sachar to the festival. Stirring things up is in DOTE\u2019s DNA, and we can\u2019t wait for audiences to experience this year\u2019s lineup.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n