Premiere: June 13, 2024 at Dancing on the Edge in Vancouver
Duration: Approx. 55 min.
Direction and Staging Lisa Mariko Gelley & Josh Martin
Choreography Company 605 in collaboration with Performers
Creative Collaborator / Dramaturgy Marcus Youssef
Original Music and Sound Design Matthew Tomkinson
Lighting Design James Proudfoot
Wardrobe Design Justine A. Chambers
Production Assistant Jack Chipman
Set Design Support danielle wensley
Technical Support Wladimiro A. Woyno / The Precursor Lab
Audio Description / Access Supports Andrea Cownden
Performers Jade Chong, Kate Franklin, Lisa Mariko Gelley, Ruby Henderson, Josh Martin, Antonio Somera, Shana 愛 Wolfe
Managing Producer Francesca Piscopo
Company 605 recognizes the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council and Province of BC, and the City of Vancouver.
Special Thanks: Donna Spencer / DOTE, Michael Boucher and Janice Belay / SFU Woodwards, HebelHalle-Künstlerhaus / UnterwegsTheater, Wlad Woyno / Precursor Lab, SFU School for the Contemporary Arts, C-Space and Progress Lab 1422, Out Innerspace / Q7, and to all the additional artists who journeyed through the process including: Brandon Alley, Bynh Ho, Jamie Robinson, Avery Smith, Jessica Wilkie, Sophia Wolfe, and Zahra Shahab.
Produced by Company 605, with the support of the Canada Council for Arts, The Province of BC, the British Columbia Arts Council, and The City of Vancouver.
*Content Warning: Performance includes the use of haze and flashing lights.
lossy is about an inability to take it all with us.
these are bodies at a loss, gathering together in a stream of movement. a state of recovery. seeking and sifting, grasping for an anchor. these are the bodies that were left behind, haunted by the ghostly traces of lost futures. a nostalgia for a world that never happened. it is at once real and science fiction, digital and embodied.
this liminal space holds a confrontation with the promise of future, and ever-present absences. a collision between our inexorable, ecstatic draw towards the limitless new, and a continuous loss — a perpetual state of mourning for what we are leaving behind. these are bodies compressed and incomplete. there is no answer. there is only the stream, and the blurring fragments of what we attempt to bring with us.
lossy is a warped ritual of transcendence. it is a carefree conjuring of a shiny new future “us”, and a collective grieving for what the future may no longer hold, once we finally arrive.
Company 605 – lossy – In Creation from Company 605 on Vimeo.
