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Contreras)(JuanjucoVisualArtsbyPhotoShaffer.OliviabySenescence MARION LANDERS DANCE//NOVELLA HOLLY BRIGHT & CELESTINE ALECK For Coloured Girls: Out of the Womb Jan 21 @ 7pm & Jan 22 @ 4pm Free/By Livestreamingdonationfrom KW Studios When the Walls Come Down Feb 4 @ 7pm & Feb 5 @ 4pm Free/By Livestreamingdonationfrom KW Studios The Sun and the Moon February 24-26 @ 8pm Orpheum$20-30 Annex Vancouver’s Vancouver’s Nanaimo’s COMPANY 605/ GERMAN JAUREGUI KOKORO DANCE MANUEL ROQUE Albatross March 4 @ 7pm & March 5 @ 4pm Free/By LivestreamingDonationfrom KW Studios Wabi-Sabi March 4-5 @ 8pm Vancouver$35-50 Playhouse SIERRANEVADA (World Premiere) March 9-12 @ 8pm By KWDonation/FreeProductionStudio Vancouver’s Vancouver’s Montréal’s DAINA ASHBEE BENOÎT LACHAMBRE COMPANY 605 J’ai pleuré avec les chiens (Time, Creation, Destruction) - Canadian Premiere March 9-12 @ 8pm Scotiabank$20-30 Dance Centre All in All March 18 - March 20 @ 3pm-8pm By KWDonation/FreeStudios,Woodwards Atrium Brimming (Hybrid Show) March 18-19 @ 8pm $20-30 In-person at Orpheum Free/byAnnex donation Livestream Montréal’s Montréal’s Vancouver’s RHODNIE DÉSIR (RD CRÉATIONS) OLIVIA SHAFFER TIGER PRINCESS DANCE PROJECTS BOW’T TRAIL RÉTROSPEK March 23-26 @ 7:30pm The$26-49Cultch Senescence March 24 - March 26 @ 6:30pm By KWdonation/FreeAtriumStudio In Search of Holy Chop Suey & Weave…part one March 24-26 @ 8pm By KWdonation/FreeProductionStudio Montréal’s Vancouver’s Toronto’s
We begin by acknowledging that the 2022 VIDF takes place on the unceded ancestral territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the x ʷməθkwəy əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (TsleilWaututh) Nations and we thank them for sharing their land with us.
Yours in dance, Barbara Bourget and Jay Hirabayashi
make up this year’s festival. While the Provincial Health Office is now allowing full capacity at our venues, we are keeping our attendance at 50% to better ensure social spacing in our seated shows. Vaccination cards proving full vaccinations against COVID-19 are required as is wearing masks except for those who have difficulty breathing through masks or when you are consuming beverages or food. Please maintain social distancing wherever possible at events where there is no seating. Please be kind and respectful to your fellow dance
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The 2022 VIDF offers 29 in-person performances, 6 livestreamed performances, and 1 hybrid Woodward’stakeAlllivestreamedin-person/performance.13performancesthatplaceinKWStudios/Atriumandthe 8
livestreamed performances are free/by donation. Please read the following pages to learn about the exciting shows that
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Welcome to the 22nd edition of the Vancouver International Dance Festival.
receive grants from the City of Vancouver, Province of BC, British Columbia Arts Council, Department of Canadian Heritage, and the Canada Council for the Arts. While we are grateful for this support, we are also thankful for the generous support from individual donors who enable us to produce this festival. Please join these individual angels in supporting the VIDF by buying a ticket to a show and bringing a friend or additionally donating when attending our free in-person and livestreamed shows. We hope to see your beautiful faces and feel your warm hearts at the 2022 VIDF.
is an ephemeral art form that has a profound and lasting impact. We produce the VIDF as a labour of love for the art of contemporary dance. We started this festival 22 years ago without any funding support, but now
KOKORO DANCE
Kokoro Dance’s butoh expression gives recurring attention to the seven aesthetic principles of Zen philosophy: kanso — simplicity; fukinsei — asymmetry or irregularity; shibumi — beauty in the understated; shizen — naturalness without pretense;
yugen — subtle grace; datsuzoku — freeness; and seijaku — tranquility. These terms are encompassed in a world view contained in the words wabi and sabi — the acceptance of transience and imperfection.
The choreography in these Wabi-Sabi performances consists of a structured score within which Barbara and Jay have the freedom to improvise. Each performance will be unique. The music, by Joseph Hirabayashi, lighting by Hina Nishioka and Gerald King, costumes by Tsuneko Kokubo, and projected photography by
Duration: 50 Vancouver’smins Wabi-Sabi March 4-5 @ 8pm Vancouver$35-50 Playhouse 2 VIDF 2022 Festival Program
Kokoro Dance contemplates transience and imperfection in Wabi-Sabi, a duet choreographed and performed by Kokoro Dance directors, Barbara Bourget, and Jay Hirabayashi to live music performed by an 8-piece ensemble directed by composer Joseph Hirabayashi.
Jay Hirabayashi, were conceived independently from the choreography. Each collaborator intuitively understands Kokoro Dance’s aesthetic choices through decades of working together on Kokoro’s creative projects. Adding to the impact of these Vancouver Playhouse performances is the addition of musicians Joseph Hirabayashi (guitar, keyboards), Meredith Bates and Joshua Zubot (violins), Martin Reisle (cello), Elliot Langford and Jay Hirabayashi (guitar), Justin Devries (synth and drums), and Jeff Gammon (upright and electric bass).
Synth, Drums: Justin Devries
Keyboards: Joseph Hirabayashi
Costumes: Tsuneko Kokubo
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Guitar: Elliot Langford, Joseph Hirabayashi, and Jay Hirabayashi
Credits:
Upright Bass, Electric Bass: Jeff Gammon
Performed and choreographed by Barbara Bourget and Jay Hirabayashi
Projected photography: Jay Hirabayashi
Cello: Martin Reisle
Music: Joseph Hirabayashi
Lighting: Hina Nishioka and Gerald King
Violin: Meredith Bates and Joshua Zubot
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Co-producers: Jay Hirabayashi and Barbara Bourget Festival Manager: Khaliun Altan Production Manager: Terry KWPodealukStudios Technical Director: Gabriel Raminhos Web & Graphic Designer: Aaron SugarBookkeeper/AdminKhaliunDigitalChrisPhotographer/Videographer:SmithRandleMarketingCoordinator:AltanAssistant:Otgo
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