DANCE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE (2016)
A COLLABORATION BETWEEN GREEN LIGHT ARTS & TILTED ARTS
PRESENTED AS PART OF THE Night\Shift Placehacking Festival 2016
NOV 1, 2016
The Walper Hotel - The Oak Room
20 Queen St. S.), 2nd floor
Kitchener, ON
Inspired by the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, The audience participates in telling a story woven by movement and music, giving instinctive input to help shape a performance in just 45 minutes.
An immersive performance piece that fuses theatre, live music and contemporary dance .
The creative cast will feature three musicians who are accomplished improvisers (including bassist Dave Mansell , accompanied by a guitarist and drummer), a director/antagonist (Green Light Arts’ founder & artistic director Matt White), choreographer ( Natasha Mansell ), and five dancers (including Green Light Arts’ founder & managing director Carin Lowerison ).
The director instigates choices from the audience and the choreographer shapes festival-goers’ feedback to create an original, improvised piece with the dancers and musicians. The framework of the story (gestures and segments of choreography) are pre-determined, but the participating audience members will craft how the pieces of the story fit together and how it will end.
Each show (beginning at 10pm and midnight, sharp) will consist of 30 minutes of developing an improvised dance piece to improvised music, 10 minutes over review and refinement, and then a 5-minute final performance with music
