Final Stop with Made in BC - Dance on Tour!

Fourth stop, Nanaimo
Here we are at our final stop on the MIBC network!

On Thursday evening Josh and I led a workshop with 12 adults, ranging in ability and experience but sharing a common willingness to take risk. The two-hour session took place at the Rotary Field House, and coincidentally, the floor had three rectangles in its design that worked as territories much like the yellow floor we have for the New Animal set. We spent some time exploring improvisations, as well as each participant creating some set material, and we used the combination of these ideas to stalk, protect, claim, surrender, fight over, and share the three territories in the space. Josh and I were blown away at how open, trusting, and enthusiastic all of the participants were! Thanks to all of you!

On Friday evening we visited a local dance studio called Vibe Dance, where we taught an enthusiastic group of about 18 teens. They were incredibly receptive to 605's movement techniques, as well as fearless improvisers! We can tell they receive a lot of great training (we may be a little biased because some of our friends are on the faculty at the studio).

Saturday November 9th was show day at the Port Theatre. The venue was absolutely gorgeous and there were even enough lighting fixtures to facilitate Rob Sondergaard's complete design, for the first time since New Animal's premiere at the Cultch in 2012! We had a post show artists' talk with some great questions and comments from audience members, and are glad to have finished off our Made-in-BC tour on a high note.

Next, the company is off to finish the New Animal tour in Toronto, Burnaby, Summerside, PEI, and Halifax!

Thanks for reading about the BC portion of the tour! We are so glad you came along for the ride.

About the Lemons:

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Origin: California

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