Out Innerspace returns to Agora with a group piece that hovers between the tragic and the comic, ritual and chaos. Our dreams and fears are intertwined in this expressive, theatrical world as only Out Innerspace knows how to construct them.
This new creation stages an unlikely constellation of characters who are past their prime and wondering if their better days are behind them. The rhinoceros, the skeleton, the matador, the oil, and a cockroach struggle for relevance, transforming themselves and discovering what they bring to uncertain futures. Straddling the tightrope between comedy and tragedy, this project is about what it takes to stand the test of time and the threat of extinction of our dreams. Daring, thought-provoking dance!
Vancouver-based Out Innerspace Dance Theatre (OIS), founded on unceded Coast Salish Aboriginal land by Tiffany Tregarthen and David Raymond, has spent nearly 20 years creating extraordinary dance experiences through uncompromising rigour and ingenuity. They were recently named Associate Artists of the Agora de la danse and have received commissions from Ballet BC, Nederland Dance Theatre 2, Hessisches Staats Ballett (Germany) and Gibney Dance (New York). Bygones has been performed 50 times in 12 countries, including guest performances at Julidans (Amsterdam), Torino Danza, Colors Festival (Stuttgart), Teatros del Canal (Madrid), Dansens Hus (Stockholm) and Canada’s National Arts Centre. Their education program, Modus Operandi, provides relevant dance development and one-on-one mentorship, producing some of Canada’s most radical and inspiring young dance artists.
October 23-24-25, 2024 –7 PM
October 26, 2024 – 4 PM
Duration : 75 minutes
29$ | 35$
Meet the artists, October 24, 2024, after the performance
Artistic Directors Tiffany Tregarthen, David Raymond
Performers & Creative Collaborators Adam Khazhmuradov, Aiden Cass, Alesandra, David Harvey, David Raymond, Jade Chong, Tiffany Tregarthen
Apprentices Madeleine Cruz, Julian Hunt
Video Design and Technical Direction Eric Chad
Lighting Design James Proudfoot
Costume Design & Fabrication Janet Dundas
Sound Design Stefan Seslija
National Creation Funds’s Critical Friend Lou Cope (participation made possible by the National Creation Funds’s Critical Friends initiative.)
Stage Manager Julian Hunt
Costume Design & Fabrication Assistant Alaia Hamer
Costume Stitchers Desiree Morin, Halley Fulford, Holly Anderson
Apprentice Technical Director Jack Chipman (Apprenticeship partner: Canada’s National Arts Centre.)
Music James Ginzburg, Yair Elazar Glotman, emptyset (James Ginzburg and Paul Purgas), Eric Holm- courtesy of Subtext Recordings
Co-production The CanDance Network Creation Fund (Agora de la danse, Dance Victoria, National Arts Centre, La Rotonde), La Comète (France), Julidans (Netherlands), One Dance Week (Bulgaria), Agora de la danse
Developed with support from The National Arts Centre’s National Creation Fund
Creative residencies Agora de la danse, ArtSpring Theatre, Yukon Arts Centre
David Raymond + Tiffany Tregarthen
