TIME, CREATION, DESTRUCTION in 2021).

In 2021 Daina presented 5 of her original works at Montpellier Dance Festival: Unrelated (2014), Pour (2016), When the ice melts, will we drink the water? (2016), Serpentine (2017) and Laborious Song (2020). Daina presented 4 of her original works at Usine-C titled <<Daina Ashbee Retrospective>> which featured Unrelated, Pour, When the ice melts, will we drink the water? and Laborious Song in October 2021.

Daina’s new creations include another group piece My Tale on a Fish’s Body which will premiere in 2023, and small group piece titled We learned a lot at our own funeral which is choreographed on breakers, Bboys and BGirls in 2024.

She is also a teacher of movement, choreography and therapeutic practices. She has taught at the Venice Biennale College in Venice, Italy, as a guest at The University of Stavanger, Norway and at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia U.S.A. Daina presented her workshops at Nulty Bod/ZeroPoint Festival in Prague, in Guadalajara, Mexico, across

Canada and especially in Montreal, Quebec., for the past 14 years. In 2022 she will teach in Costa Rica, across Canada and in Norway.

Imara Bosco is a dancer and performer based in Rome.

Born in Caltagirone (Sicily, Italy) in 1993, she studied Cunningham and Limon techniques at the National Academy of Dance in Rome, where she graduated in 2015.She continued her dance training in Israel with the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company. In 2021 she obtained her master’s degree in Theater, Music and Dance at Roma Tre University with a thesis about the relation between contemporary dance and performance art.

In 2018 Bosco was selected by Marie Chouinard to take part in a dance project at the Venice Biennale. Here she performed Chouinard’s repertory and a commissioned work by choreographer Daina Ashbee. She has performed Ashbee’s pieces at the KVS - Brussels City Theater, the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, the Cardiff Dance Festival in Wales, the CCOVCentre de Création O Vertigo in Montréal, and at the Vancouver International Dance Festival (VIDF).

Bosco spent a period of research at the Venice Biennale writing pieces of dance criticism and in 2021 she wrote an essay on the nudity of bodies on stage, edited by dance critic Elisa Guzzo Vaccarino and published by the Venice Biennale.

Bosco is a dance teacher and she held a workshop as a guest teacher for the Accademia di Belle Arti, the National Dance Academy and the Music Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome.

Dynasty Handbag

Titanic Depression

May 20 & 21, 830PM

Co-presented off-site at Pioneer Works

Co-created by Jibz Cameron and Sue Slagle (SUE-C)

Writen and Performed by Jibz Cameron

Visual Director: Maraih Garnett

Technical Director / Sound Design: Chloe Alexandra Thompson

Dramaturg: Sacha Yanow

Co-Writen and Produced by Amanda Verwey

Animator: Amy Von Harrington

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Funding

Dynasty Handbag: Titanic Depression was commissioned by Pioneer Works and curated by David Everitt Howe. It is co-presented by New York Live Arts as part of Live Ideas 2023: Planet Justice. The performance is made possible with support from Creative Capital, The Guggenheim Foundation, Ballroom Marfa, Center for Performance Research, Chorus Foundation, and MacDowell.