TRAMWAY PRESENTS:
DANA MICHEL (Canada):
CUTLASS SPRING

TRAMWAY [T4], GLASGOW directions
Fri 15 May 2020
CANCELLED

ACCESS: This work is highly visual with ambient sound and no spoken text. All TMS venues are wheelchair accessible. Content warnings are not provided for this work. Please email tramwayproducer@gmail.com for more information.

She is not present in their pornography. She is not found in their eroticisms.

She is not even a part of her own fantasy world.

CUTLASS SPRING is what sex might mean to me right now.

I will roam inside a question : How might I locate my sexual identity within a multitude of complimentary and seemingly contradictory identities – as a performer, as a mother, as a daughter, as a lover, as a stranger? I will map a sexual education – with all of its embodiments, fabrications, and disassociations. I will follow these trajectories toward their softest core so as to discover what I hold back and what I make explicit.

She will solicit her body and all of the many things that go with her person. She will realize what remains within her for sexual contemplation.

Inching towards uncensorship, engaging the infinite potential of everyday objects, CUTLASS SPRING is, at once, a manifesto and a heated reflection, an ethnography of sexual understanding and an archaeology of desire.
Dana Michel & Michael Nardone

DANA MICHEL is a Montreal-based choreographer and live artist. Her works interact with the expanded fields of improvisation, sculpture, hip-hop, comedy, cinematography, dub, and social commentary to create a centrifuge of experience. Her audacious and original works have earned international attention and prestigious awards, including the Jardin d’Europe Award at ImPulsTanz (Vienna), the Silver Lion for Innovation in Dance at the Venice Biennale, and the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art.

CREDITS:

Created and performed by Dana Michel
Artistic Activators Ellen Furey, Peter James, Mathieu Léger, Heidi Louis, Roscoe Michel, Karlyn Percil, Yoan Sorin, Alanna Stuart
Sound Consultant David Drury
Lighting Design Karine Gauthier
Technical Direction Karine Gauthier
Production Dana Michel
Executive Production Par B.L.eux
Distribution Key Performance – Koen Vanhove

COPRODUCTION:

Arsenic - Centre d’art scénique contemporain Lausanne (Lausanne, Suisse), Rosendal Teater (Trondheim,Norvège), Black Box Teater (Oslo, Norvège), Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans (France), Centre National des Arts (Ottawa, Canada), Festival TransAmériques (Montréal, Canada), Julidans (Amsterdam, Pays Bas), Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Bruxelles, Belgique), Montpellier Danse (France), Moving in November (Helsinki, Finlande)

Co-produced with the support of the Visiting Dance Artist Program, a joint initiative of the National Arts Centre and the Canada Council for the Arts.

CREATIVE RESIDENCIES:

Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans (France), Centre National des Arts (Ottawa, Canada), CounterPulse (San Francisco, États Unis), Dancemakers (Toronto, Canada), da:ns lab (Singapour), Galerie du Dourven – Passerelle Centre d’art contemporain (France), Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Belgique), PAF - Performing Arts Forum (France), Par B.L.eux (Montreal, Canada), Usine C (Montreal, Canada), Reykjavik Dance Festival (Islande), Tanzhaus Zurich (Suisse)

Part of #CanadaGoesGlasgow, a year-long programme promoting the next generation of inspiring Canadian talent showcased across the city of Glasgow in 2020

The creation of this work was made possible thanks to the financial support of Canada Council for the Arts and Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

Dana Michel is an artist associate of Par B.L.eux