Justine
A. Chambers

Family Dinner: The Lexicon

11 Mar 2017

After Family Dinner, the end result is a choreography (The Lexicon) of small, unconscious gestures that are communicated during the course of this very social ritual.

During performances of Family Dinner, the dancers’ bodies record the physical exchanges and gestures characteristic of each participant. Those gestures are then distilled and rearranged in The Lexicon, presenting a living catalogue, an archive of shared body language.

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.

Justine
A. Chambers

March 11 - 2017 - 4 p.m.

Duration : 40 minutes

$15


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: The Lexicon

11 Mar 2017