Justine
A. Chambers

Family Dinner

6 - 9 Mar 2017

An exceptional experience in the immersive, intimate context of a dinner, that special moment of the day that is both cultural and social, a time to share food and conversation.

Family Dinner is a party with friends where the public dines with the performers. The choreographer is in the kitchen, the dancers serve the drinks and the spectators are the invited guests. Personal stories and physical memories shared during the meal are recalled and reinterpreted, leaving a trace in the shared language of the performers. A unique, sociable experience that places each guest at the heart of the performance.

The experience includes a three-course meal with wine. Only 10 tickets available for each performance of Family Dinner.

Justine A. Chambers

Justine A. Chambers’ interests lie in collaborative creation and re-imagining dance performance. Drawn to the movement of all bodies and focusing on dances that are already there – the choreographies present in the everyday – she has been creating performance projects throughout Canada since 2000. Chambers is a founding member of project bk and an associate artist with The Dance Centre (2015-2017). Her recent works include The Choreography Walk, Homemade Again, Family Dinner, Family Dinner: The Lexicon, Back It Up, Enters and Exits and COPY. Her choreographic projects have been presented at the Vancouver Art Gallery (FUSE), The Western Front, Dancing on the Edge Festival, Dance in Vancouver, Dance Saskatchewan, New Dance Horizons and The Music Gallery. Recent collaborations include projects with Claudia Fancello, Ben Brown, Su-Feh Lee, Marilou Lemmens & Richard Ibghy, Jen Weih, Brendan Fernandes and Josh Hite. Chambers works actively as a performer, rehearsal director and external monitor for dance artists such as Oded Graf & Yossi Berg, Company 605, Mascall Dance, OutInnerspace Dance Theatre, Tara Cheyenne Performance, adelheid dance projects and Emily Molnar. She leads classes in contemporary dance technique and improvisation at Working Class, Modus Operandi, Arts Umbrella, Ballet BC and The Toronto Community Love-In. Chambers is Max Tyler-Hite’s mother.

In this work the personal is depersonalized, the material for construction of identity is made open-source and the singular is made communal.

Alexa Mardon

Justine
A. Chambers

March 6 > 9 - 2017 - 7 p.m.

Duration : 90 minutes

$80


Credits

Choreography Justine A. Chambers
Created in collaboration with Alison Denham, Kate Franklin, Lisa Gelley, Aryo Khakpour, Josh Martin, Billy Marchenski
Performers: Claudia Fancello, Marie Claire Forté, Alanna Kraaijeveld, Adam Kinner, Jean-Benoit Labrecque-Gilbert, Katie Ward
Sound design Nancy Tam
Lighting James Proudfoot

Justine
A. Chambers

Family Dinner

6 - 9 Mar 2017