Nature Ecstasy
Nature Ecstasy
Suddenly Dance Theatre (Victoria)
January 13 - 22, 2005
Opening: Thursday, January 13, 8pm
Artists’ Talk: Saturday, January 15, Noon
OPENING NIGHT - 2 performances only!
Thursday, January 13th
7pm & 9 pm
Ticket & Info: 250.383.8833
Students/Members - $5 General - $10
available only at Open Space
A LIVE MUSIC - DIGITAL DANCE PREMIERE featuring DAVID FERGUSON and JUNG-AH CHUNG with an original score played live by ECLIPSE QUARTET from Los Angeles featuring Sara Parkins, violin, Sarah Thornblade, violin, Joanna Hood, viola, Maggie Parkins, cello
Suddenly Dance Theatre and OPEN SPACE present NATURE ECSTASY an exhibition of multi-media artworks by MILES LOWRY and DAVID FERGUSON January 13 through 22, 2005.
At the centre of NATURE ECSTASY is the premiere of a video featuring dancers Ferguson and Jung-ah Chung. The video uses invented environments and actual locations in nature to create illusions of place inhabited by the dancers. Aspects of the video were made in Ireland, New Mexico, Victoria, and also shot using blue screen, allowing the dancers to inhabit a geographic collage. As a duo, Ferguson and Chung are an exotic physical and kinetic combination. NATURE ECSTASY embraces our ecstatic love of nature, expressed through sensation, manifestation, symbolism, relationship and heroism. As well, NATURE ECSTASY facilitates the creation of original music as it is a silent film made for live musical interpretation. As our first experimental laboratory, the video will premiere with a live musical performance by the L.A. based Eclipse Quartet.
Open during gallery hours, the installation will include properties used in the video process. This includes artworks by Lowry and Ferguson made through digital video, photo-arts, painting and sculpture. The installation focuses on interpreting media, dance and its influence in our response to nature.
SEE THE NATURE ECSTASY TEASER TRAILER @ www.suddenlydance.ca