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During a series of residencies in Montr\u00e9al in 2019, choreographer Lesandra Dodson, dancers Marc Boivin and Elise Vanderborght, and songwriter Christine Fellows inhabited a fantastical visual world where axolotls swim through dreamscapes, centipedes metamorphize into windshield wipers, and sighs become signs. With a pair of sharp scissors and an eye for the surreal, Winnipeg songwriter Christine Fellows generated a series of paper collages that became the key inspiration for both choreography and music. Aquarium contains creatures both real and imagined, longing for connection, transforming before our very eyes.<\/p>\n
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Dancer, improviser, teacher and choreographer Marc Boivin began his dance career at Le Groupe de la Place Royale in Ottawa under the directorship of Peter Boneham and in 1985 joined Ginette Laurin and her newly formed company O Vertigo Danse. Since 1991 he has worked as an independent dancer, performing among others for Louise B\u00e9dard, M\u00e9lanie Demers, Sylvain \u00c9mard, Jean-Pierre Perreault, Tedd Robinson and Catherine Tardif. Affiliated with L\u2019\u00c9cole de danse contemporaine de Montr\u00e9al since 1987, Boivin guest teaches and choreographs in schools and professional organizations across Canada. He has been president of the Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault since 2006, was president of Regroupement qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois de la danse (2010-2014), and a member of the Montreal Arts Council board (2005-2010). He is the recipient of the Canada Council\u2019s Jacqueline-Lemieux prize (1999) and the Dora Mavor Moore award (2014) for interpretation, in M\u00e9lanie Demers\u2019 WOULD, alongside Kate Holden.<\/p>\n
Christine Fellows finds music in sounds we tend to take for granted: the voices of the people we love, the sounds of the spaces we move through as part of our daily lives. Although she identifies primarily as a songwriter and performer, her practice includes poetry, spoken word, paper collage, stop-motion video, sound design, and composition. Fellows is based in Winnipeg, Treaty One Territory, where she collaborates with artists from all disciplines to create and produce performance works and recordings. She first collaborated with Lesandra Dodson in Winnipeg in the mid-1990s, and has maintained a strong connection to and appreciation for contemporary dance\u2014Lesandra\u2019s extraordinary work in particular\u2014throughout the years. She is thrilled to be collaborating with Elise and Marc for the first time.<\/p>\n
Elise studied ballet in Belgium and Paris before moving to Montr\u00e9al in 1997 to study at the \u00c9cole Sup\u00e9rieur de Danse du Qu\u00e9bec. Between 1998-2005, she worked with numerous Montreal-based choreographers and companies, including: Marie Chouinard, Jean Grand-Ma\u00eetre, Lucie Gr\u00e9goire, la Fondation Jean-Pierre Perreault, Montr\u00e9al Danse, Deborah Dunn and Dani\u00e8le Desnoyers. In 2005, Elise moved to Halifax where she worked with Lisa Phinney Langley, Ruth-Ellen Kroll Jackson, Mocean Dance, Verve Mwendo, and SINS Dance. Elise returned to Montr\u00e9al in 2016 and is currently working with Daina Ashbee. Her eleven years in Nova Scotia fostered unbreakable Atlantic bonds and she revels in her interactions with the East Coast dance community. This is her first collaboration with Lesandra Dodson and she is very excited to premiere this work in St.John\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Lesandra Dodson is a former dancer from Vancouver, now based in Fredericton NB. Her experiences at Simon Fraser University, the Winnipeg\u2019s Contemporary Dancers Professional Program, Le Groupe Dance Lab, WCD, Trip Dance Company, and performance work with various luminous Canadian choreographers galvanized her interest in symbiotic creation. As a choreographer, she draws inspiration from individual performers, working collaboratively to find different means and perspectives of approaching theatrical ideas and themes. Over 30 years, she has performed and created many works nationally and internationally. She counts herself lucky to have worked with an impressive array of remarkable artists, including long-time collaborator Christine Fellows.<\/p>\n
Lesandra is the Program Director at the Fredericton Playhouse. She oversees six different education, residency, and outreach programs, and curates a multidisciplinary presenting series.<\/p>\n
Throughout her cross-country career she has been committed to creating key initiatives and opportunities that support and mentor emerging artists.<\/p>\n
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Performers\/collaborators: Marc Boivin, Elise Vanderborght<\/p>\n
Director\/choreographer: Lesandra Dodson<\/p>\n
Music and sound design: Christine Fellows<\/p>\n
Paper collages\/stop motion animation: Christine Fellows<\/p>\n
Video: Lesandra Dodson<\/p>\n
Text excerpts: ‘Axolotl’ by Julio Cortazar; text voiceover Camille & Clara Caskey Vanderborght<\/p>\n
Costume design: Lesandra Dodson and Christine Fellows<\/p>\n
Lighting design: Brian Kenny<\/p>\n
Stage Manager: TBD (same as NDW)<\/p>\n
Funding acknowledgments to the Canada Council for the Arts, Winnipeg Arts Council<\/p>\n
Thanks to Studio 303 for the residency, Montreal Arts Council studios, La Poele, Lucie Gregoire, and Circuit-Est<\/p>\n
Special thanks to NDW, Calla Lachance, Santiago Guzm\u00e1n, LSPU Hall crew, and our families.<\/p>\n
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