The Working Move
Western Front Media Arts is pleased to present The Working Move, a new work by Brendan Fernandes. Developed over a six-week production residency, Fernandes worked collaboratively with…
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Results filed under: Dance
Intermezzo
Intermezzo by Pablo Bronstein uses the conventional format of the lecture as a starting point, transforming a partly informative presentation on the 16th century French painter…
Kyai Madu Sari in Concert
Traditional Indonesian music and dance.
In bocca al lupo (In the Mouth of the Wolf)
An opera that involved the construction of an elaborate two-storey set, roughly the shape of a body, which took up the entire Lux. The audience…
A Sound is Heard in the World
New gamelan and dance collaboration.
Puppies
The Artsong Trio (Irène Aebi, Petia Kaufman and Carol Robinson) performed songs by Mary Frazee, set to music by Steve Lacy, with original choreography and…
Bald, Doubleditch, Poking Grey Matter
Solo performance with elaborate costumes and choreography.
La Tête et les Jambes
The photographic results of the collaboration between a dancer and a photographer. Due to the high volume of material in the Western Front Archive, further…
EDAM
The debut of ‘Experimental Dance and Music’ (EDAM) which would soon identify itself as an original voice in the Vancouver dance community and continue as…
Chance
A collaboration between Ernst Reijseger (improv. cello) and Jennifer Mascall (dancer). Audio Recording duration: 1:26:23 Digitized audio of this concert is available through the Western…
Changing Scales
Two dance performances. Due to the high volume of material in the Western Front Archive, further information on this project is currently unavailable.
Oeufs Fragile / Off Spring
Two dance performances.
Crash Course
Music, movies, slides and dance in an examination of the interplay between knowledge and action.
Gullible’s Travels
Fusiontap, mime and eccentric dance. Due to the high volume of material in the Western Front Archive, further information on this project is currently unavailable.
Steve Paxton: Performance and Workshop
Steve Paxton hosted a performance and workshop at Western Front featuring ‘Contact Improvisation’ and other post-modern experimental modes of movement. Other dancers who collaborated with…
Western Front Independent Choreography Series
A series of performances by independent dancer/choreographers produced at the Firehall Theatre by Jane Ellison, assisted by Barbara Clausen. It marked both the beginning of…
Iris Garland, Laurie Jones, Jorge Holguin & C. Lee in Performance
Iris Garland, Laurie Jones, Jorge Holguin, and C. Lee in dance performance. Due to the high volume of material in the Western Front Archive, further…
The Techno Primates: In Transition
With Michael Micheletti. A series of intermedia events using dance, poetry, video and electronic music. The performance was concerned with the relationship between technology and…