Weathering | Featuring Josh Martin, Gisele Ardosa & Jennifer Clarke

Lighthouse | Josh Martin

A blurring of fast and slow, this new solo work in development exists in a tension between the dizzying sensation of forever 'spinning out' and a continual attempt to find and hold onto a centre. Through sustained rotation, the body enters a self-induced disorientation - a heightened sensorial state, seeking balance while resisting and riding its own centrifugal force. Lighthouse is a revolving meditation, shapeshifting through slow transformation while turning at speed, and transmitting outward from within its own unraveling. It is a beacon in the void, casting signals out into the distant dark: a call, a waypoint, and a warning for all who may approach.

Content Advisory: Moments of 'strobe-like' lighting

Credits

• Creation / Production: Company 605
• Performed by: Josh Martin
• Rehearsal Direction: Lisa Gelley / Kate Franklin
• Original Music and Sound Design: Matthew Tomkinson
• Lighting & Production Design: Jack Chipman & Josh Martin
• Technical Direction: Gabriel Raminhos
• Special Thanks: Kate Franklin, Donna Spencer

Created with the support of Centro Coreográfico de La Gomera / UNIDĀD-Gomera and Teatro Victoria (Tenerife, Spain)

All You Ever Do Is Rain | Gisele Ardosa

All You Ever Do Is Rain is a space to make friends with what did not happen. A lament for emotions steadily ground down by an indifferent universe. Contradictions of the heart carried in the hollows of the body.

The piece doesn't seem to want catharsis yet. Inhabiting the strange period where the mind goes but the body hasn't caught up. Love’s voltage of being. Carefully folded into each other with barely any wrinkles.

Again, again, again. The body shrinks in annihilation.

Credits:

• Choreographer: Gisele Ardosa
• Performers: Gisele Ardosa and Isaac Abriel

Lifelong | Jennifer Clarke

Lifelong is a solo dance work exploring disorientation, instability and the impulse to reorganize through movement, voice and live sound. What happens to our identity and artistry when life’s inevitable changes transform our capacity to respond, adapt and expand?
Movement and sound build, shrink, shape and reshape in real time, with guest performers briefly entering to disrupt or redirect the flow.

At the center of Lifelong is the human need to rebuild, find stability and reorganize. We instinctively adjust, compensate and find new ways to orient ourselves in the face of instability. Disorientation is not simply a loss of balance; it exposes our vulnerability and forces us to respond. The work considers this continual realignment as a survival strategy, our ability to adapt, evolve and find new ways forward.

Sound is constructed live alongside the movement. Using voice, microphones, found sounds and a looping pedal, the dancer gathers, layers, repeats, reshapes and dismantles sound in real time. The soundscape develops alongside the dance, with the audience witnessing its construction and transformation.

Guest performers enter briefly to disrupt or amplify the movement, shifting its trajectory and creating new relationships. Their presence introduces moments of support and instability that require the dancer to respond and reorganize.

Credits

• Choreographer and Performer: Jennifer Clarke
• Sound: Jennifer Clarke
• Special Thanks: Denise Clarke

This research is supported in part by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Creative Residency Program and Decidedly Jazz.