World Premiere: March 2016 – Vancouver International Dance Festival
- Choreography: 605
- Direction: Josh Martin and Lisa Gelley
- Lighting Design: Robert Sondergaard
- Stage Design: Jesse Garlick
- Wardrobe Design: Leah Weinstein
- Rehearsal Director/Dramaturge: Susan Elliott
- Technical Director: Graham Ockley
Performers: Laura Avery, Hayden Fong, Josh Martin, Renee Sigouin, Jessica Wilkie, Sophia Wolfe
Apprentice: Maya Tenzer
Photography: David Cooper, Rita Taylor
Vital Few is a new work created with and for six unique performers; a collaborative undertaking utilizing mechanisms of constant codependence and interrelation between the dancers. Each performer’s own distinct expression, movement, and choice making weaves together to collectively build the moving sculpture of the group body, the whole greater than the sum of its parts. Acknowledging both an autonomy and responsibility to the group, the struggle of coexistence within the set parameters and finite space continuously informs the content of this hyper-connected dance. The work pushes the company into new physical territory to further explore the essence of unison and togetherness, the negotiation of group dynamics, and the preservation of self inside the collective consciousness.
Vital Few is a co-production of the CanDance Network Creation Fund, The Banff Centre, the Vancouver International Dance Festival, Dance Victoria, DanceWorks, and supported by the Dance Section of the Canada Council for the Arts.
Company 605 received residencies towards the creation of Vital Few through The Dance Centre’s Dance Lab Program, Dance Victoria, The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, The Banff Centre, and the Vancouver International Dance Festival.
Company 605 acknowledges the support of The Canada Council for the Arts, the province of British Columbia through the British Columbia Arts Council and BC Gaming, the City of Vancouver, the Hamber Foundation, and the Leon and Thea Koerner Foundation.
- In-studio rehearsal footage by David Cooper
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