Radio III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ
Elisa Harkins, Zoë Poluch, Hanako Hoshimi-Caines
Different histories, artistic/cultural educations, and experiences fuse together to create a new form of dance that you don’t want to miss!
RADIO III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ is both an indigenous futuristic concert and a beautifully uncomfortable dance performance that strives to make visible what has been kept invisible in colonial systems of recognition and aesthetics. Choreographed and performed by Hanako Hoshimi-Caines, Zoë Poluch and Elisa Harkins with music composed by Elisa Harkins, RADIO III questions, challenges, and defies minimalism and postmodern dance’s aesthetic claims of neutrality.
DATES:
Thursday, September 22, 8pm
Friday, September 23, 8pm - followed by conversation with the artist
Saturday, September 24, 8pm
Duration: 55 minutes
More About This Piece
RADIO III / ᎦᏬᏂᏍᎩ ᏦᎢ is an indigenous futuristic concert, a beautiful and uncomfortable dance performance and a perverse triangle of shifting power that seeks to be unfaithful to both minimalism and postmodern dance’s claims to so-called “neutrality”. In this work, we seek to live, layer and situate form in our bodies, as these evoke past, present and future possibilities.
Choreographed and performed by Hanako Hoshimi-Caines, Zoë Poluch and Elisa Harkins, and music composed by Elisa Harkins, Radio III was borne in part from our common interest in minimalism in art and music. We asked: how can we work on the performativity and spatial principles of minimalism while questioning the universalism associated with this aesthetic. We made a dance that haunts the recognizable toolbox of abstraction, form, repetition and pattern by striving to make visible what has been kept invisible in colonial systems of recognition and aesthetics.
In relation to questions of invisibility/visibility, simultaneity and pluralization, this work explores ways of displacing and situating western contemporary dance and theory, making it an “as well” and a “next to”. In creating the piece, we did not look for a universal hybrid aesthetic but hoped to create a particular form from our desire to bring our different histories, artistic and cultural educations and experiences together with sensitivity and inquisitiveness.
The intention of Radio III, a larger work that includes Elisa Harkins’ solo Wampum performance, is to create a metaphorical peacekeeping agreement between the performers in the work as well as with people watching the piece, regardless of tribe or race.
Photos by Bruce Mathieu Verreault
Credits
With and by : Hanako Hoshimi-Caines, Zoë Poluch and Elisa Harkins
Music by: Elisa Harkins
Produced by: Hanako Hoshimi-Caines and Zoë Poluch
Lighting Design : Paul Chambers
Costumes : Jade Tong Cuong
International Representation and Production: Norberg Management
Production coordinator: Tiera Joly Pavelich
Technical Direction: Öykü Önder
Sound: Joel Lavoie
Rehearsal Direction: Justin De Luna
Conversation partners: Ivanie Aubin-Malo, Maria Kefirova, k.g. Guttman, James Goddard, Katie Ward.
Coproduction partners : MAI, MDT, Dance Victoria.
Made possible with the support of:
Conseil des Arts du Canada, Kulturrådet/Swedish Arts Council,
Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, The Stable and the Agora de la Danse.
About the artists
THIS IS AN IN-PERSON SHOW WITH SPACE LIMITED TO 300 PEOPLE PER PERFORMANCE
Contains Considerations: Bright lights and loud sounds