Resilience XXI
SCA Graduating Dancers & Choreographers
April 24, 2021 | 7:00 PM | Vimeo | FREE
Please join us for an evening of 13 new dance works by SCA student choreographers and dancers, featuring Alex Pickrell, Bronwyn Pollock, Camryn Frisk, Carly DuBreuil, Jade Chong, Jay Gignac, Kenzie Skoglund, Mackenzie Seaborn, Paige McConnell, Sarah U, Shannon Lin, Teighan Hauff, and Ursula Blanchard.
Resilience XXI will run about 75 minutes, with a 5-minute intermission. After the "live" premiere, the program will stay on Vimeo for a week.
Program Notes
Oscillations
Duration: 5min 30seconds
Choreographer/Editor: Kenzie Skoglund
Dancers: Paige McConnell, Kenzie Skoglund
Cinematographer: Jarod Campbell
Composer/Musician: Sam Meadahl
Choreographer鈥檚 Notes: In a sea of personality, there鈥檚 never just one.
A special thanks to Jarod Campbell and Sam Meadahl for their collaboration, hard work, and dedication to making this work come to life on screen.
Solitude
Duration: 7 minutes
Choreographer/Dancer/Filmmaker/Editor: Bronwyn Pollock
Videographer: Camryn Pollock
Composer: Sebastian Ortiz Cruz
Choreographer鈥檚 Notes: Solitude explores personal thoughts feeling and experiences which have arisen during the many months of living in quarantine (or isolation). 鈥淎voiding triggers isn鈥檛 healing. Healing happens when you are triggered and your able to move through pain, the pattern, and the story - and walking your way to a different ending鈥� 鈥� Vienna Pharaon
Fruit Basket
Duration: 4 minutes
Choreographer/Filmmaker: Carly DuBreuil
Dancers: Mackenzie Seaborn, Carly DuBreuil
Composer: Sam Meadahl
Choreographer鈥檚 Notes: Just an experiment.
Emerge
Duration: 5 minutes
Choreographer/Dancer: Sarah U
Filmmaker/ Videographer/ Editor: Valeriya Khan
Music: Deep by SergePavkinMusic, Strung out by Travis Lake
Choreographer鈥檚 Notes: Today marks my 966 days in SFU dance and 65 days towards finishing my Bachelor of Fine Arts. This piece is dedicated to all my professors, instructors, friends, colleagues, people who have inspired me, encouraged me, challenged me, and helped me along this journey. Thank you!
At the Horizons
Duration: 7 minutes
Choreographer: Ursula Blanchard
Dancers: Alex Pickrell, Ursula Blanchard
Sound: Alex Pickrell, Ursula Blanchard
Choreographer鈥檚 Notes: A poem made of excerpts from Homer's "The Odyssey", Emily Dickinson鈥檚 "The Moon", Walt Whitman's "A Prairie Sunset" and "Twilight" and Sylvia Plath's "The Moon and the Yew Tree" as well as some original content. The poem as well as the dance explores themes of duality, within oneself and within the daily patterns, we experience.
This isn鈥檛 it 鈥� until next time
Duration: 9 minutes
Choreographer/Dancer/Composer/Editor: Teighan Hauff
Filmmaker: Teighan Hauff, Tara MacGregor
Soundscape: SFU students and faulty
Choreographer鈥檚 Notes: 3 years...XVIII 鈥� XXI
~ INTERMISSION ~
Voda
Duration: 4 minutes
Choreographer/Filmmaker/Editor: Carly DuBreuil
Dancers: Jade Chong, Mackenzie Seaborn, Paige McConnell, Kenzie Skoglund
Music: Carly DuBreuil
Choreographer鈥檚 Notes: I鈥檝e been fascinated by aspects of the ocean for years and consistently find myself amazed by what we know and what we don鈥檛 know about it. I like to think about the ocean having an endless opportunity to be explored, there are layers to it no one has even seen to this day. I try to bring this concept to my dancing, the possibilities are endless. Water is constantly being influenced by outside forces, whether human or environmental, will change how it moves and how energy flows within it. I want to explore qualities that pertain to water in movement creation. Specifically, feeling weightless like you would in water, a calm fluidity, action, and reaction like waves crashing and how they respond, and the idea that we are always moving even if it at a micro-level.
Tightlacing
Duration: 4 minutes
Choreographer/Dancer/Editor: Camryn Frisk
Composer/Filmmaker: Sebastian Ortiz Cruz
Sculpture: 217.5 Arc x 13 by Bernar Venet
Choreographer鈥檚 Notes: Encaged within the repetition of life, trying to break out of old habits and untie the bounded ropes.
Never Touched
Duration: 4 minutes
Choreographer/Dancer/Filmmaker: Alex Pickrell
Composers/Performers: Aysha Dulong, Cindy Kao
Choreographer鈥檚 notes: Silken ribbons pouring from my veins to give, Unaffected by ravenous horrors. To have never been touched in such ways, Would I feel at home in my skin? 鈥� Alex Pickrell
And Along Came Tomorrow
Duration: 6 minutes
Choreographer/Dancer: Shannon Lin
Director/Videographer/Editor: Tino Dumec
Music: 痴补谤冒别濒诲耻谤 by Sigur R贸s
Choreographer鈥檚 Notes: A tribute to my yesterday
metanoia
Duration: 5 minutes
Choreographer/Performer/Filmmaker: Mackenzie Seaborn
Composer/Filmmaker: Sam Meadahl
Text: Tori Press
Choreographer鈥檚 Notes: A change of heart, a change of mind.
NOTE: Please be advised, this piece contains moments of flashing images.
Tide Force
Duration: 7 minutes
Choreographers/Dancers/Editors: Bronwyn Pollock, Camryn Frisk, Shannon Lin
Videographers: Camryn Pollock, Sebastian Ortiz Cruz, Renee Kuang
Composer: Sebastian Ortiz Cruz
Choreographer鈥檚 Notes: The here, there, and everywhere.