PLASTIC ORCHID FACTORY’s entre chien et loup
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At the edge of the body and technology – between comfort and fear
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A solo performance by James Gnam
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Saturday May 25
7:30 PM
Malaspina Theatre, VIU
Tickets: http://crimsoncoastdance.com/…/plastic-orchid-factorys…/
$25 Regular, $20 Crimson Coast Members, $15 Students
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BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF IS AN EXPRESSION FROM OLD FRENCH COMMONLY USED TO DESCRIBE A TIME OF DAY WHEN THE LIGHT IS SO DIM YOU CAN’T DISTINGUISH A DOG FROM A WOLF. TWILIGHT, DAWN, DUSK. THE GLOAMING.
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In this new solo work, Gnam embodies multiple layers of the “dog and wolf” expression to expose his process of making a solo during a pandemic.
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In that time between the dog and the wolf, we might feel deceived by our eyes, caught somewhere between comfort and fear, between what is real and unreal. It is a time of transformation, “the hour in which every being becomes their own shadow, and thus something other than themselves. The hour of metamorphoses, when people half hope, half fear that a dog will become a wolf.” (Barbara Bray, from the translation of Jean Genet’s Prisoner of Love).
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The work develops through cosplay and child-like inquisitiveness, reaching into the thresholds of the familiar and unfamiliar, of safety and threat, of human nature turning wild and uneasiness replacing certainty.
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Photo by David Cooper
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Learn more about Plastic Orchid Factory: https://plasticorchidfactory.ca/
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Presented by Crimson Coast Dance
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Funding provided by Heritage Canada, Canada Council for the Arts, City of Nanaimo, Province of BC/BC Arts Council, and the Dance West Network
