Dancemakers
Double Bill #1

April 9 - 12, 2008 | 8pm
April 12, 2008 | 3pm
Premiere Dance Theatre
207 Queens Quay West
3rd floor

How do we decide what to do? What limits to set? When do we come together and when do we step away? Oh, and what adds up to a party? With the collaboration of the Dancemakers company, the psychedelic sweet-jazz of The Reveries, and an environment by Trevor Schwellnus – choreographers Ame Henderson and Michael Trent create contemporary visions of what it means to be alive and to dance in the early days of the 21st century.

It was a nice party. Ame Henderson's new work reconstructs a chaotic event by sampling and covering. Sources are reinvented and replayed to find a surprising authenticity in the face of the constructed image.

Michael Trent wonders about tyranny - the large and the small, the self-imposed, the political and the rest. Addressed with moving, breathing bodies, the work questions affinities, methods of control and the dynamics of making choices.

Double Bill #1 pushes at convention and brings risk, innovation and serious play to the Premiere Dance Theatre. A performance event not to be missed.

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Single Tickets: $38, $22
Student/Senior/CADA: $33, $20

NextSteps Package Price: $33, $20
Student/Senior/CADA: $24, $15