triPOD dance collective and Qfwfq, Mating Habits Of The Bower Bird
Friday, November 28, 8 PM
Tickets $12 / $10 students, seniors, members
triPOD dance collective (Victoria) and Qfwfq (Vancouver) present a collaboration of improvised dance and music: sound and subtle melodies meshed and intertwined to create an aural backdrop for theatrical vignettes.
triPOD dance collective was founded in 2003 in Victoria by three professional dancers who choreographed both collaboratively and independently. It has since expanded into a group of dancers and musicians who meet regularly to improvise and perform together. Currently triPOD is 13 members strong. Participating members of triPOD will be Lori Hamar, Kim Tuson, Stacey Horton, and Treena Stubel.
Qfwfq is a collective of Vancouver based musicians that works within the contexts of electro-acoustic noise, free jazz, music concrete, avant pop, and composition. Their close knit improvising musicians' community lies within the underbelly of Vancouver. Collectively and individually the members of Qfwfq have performed with numerous artists including Eugene Chadbourne, Han Bennink, the Nihilist Spasm Band, They Shoot Horses, the Fernwood Difficult Music Society, triPOD Dance Collective, and neither/nor. Participating members of Qfwq for this performance are Dave Chokroun, Lee Hutzulak, Shane Krause, and Rachael Wadham.
The Australian bowerbird male creates a bower made beautiful piles and walkways of carefully chosen flowers, beetles, shells, leaves, feathers,stones, and berries to attract its mate. Each bower is unique, and female bowerbirds go from bower to bower inspecting the creativity of the males to determine their ultimate choice of mate.
Drawing inspiration from the bowerbird’s rituals, triPOD and Qfwfq collabortate in an interactive improvisatory setting to create a rarefied sonic performance milieu. In Mating Habits of the Bower Bird the dancers respond to a musical score that is shaped and altered by the musicians’ response to the dancers’ physicality and energy. The result is a unique spatial and emotional landscape within a soundworld composed of trumpet, bassoon, keyboards, string bass, bells, musical saw, saxophone, clarinets and percussion.