TRAMWAY PRESENTS
DANA MICHEL (Canada):
MERCURIAL GEORGE
TRAMWAY [T4], GLASGOW directions
Sat 16 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.
Also see: DANA MICHEL: CUTLASS SPRING on Fri 15 May
“I only just got a bit of dirt under the nails with the last thing. Now wading through the hairy rubble of a preliminary anthropological dig. So much debris! I couldn’t have predicted how much debris there would be and how much work I had created for myself in waking this beast. But they needed waking. I have seen the eyes and I’m circling, skipping, daintily lifting limbs and sniffing its scent. What is the smell of a plethora of someones that you have been avoiding your whole life? What do you do with the body? This is another science experiment. This is another ground on which to test skins that belong to me, outfits and ideas that may or may not have been imposed.” Dana Michel
In the wake of the acclaimed Yellow Towel, Mercurial George traces and transforms the banal, provoking a certain malaise. Sifting through the heaps of dusty clues leftover in the wake of initializing a cultural excavation, Dana Michel offers a destabilizing solo. The body vacillates as it struggles for balance and a toehold. Stretching out time with minimalist and deconstructed movement, Michel becomes the archeologist of her own persona.
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 for Mercurial George.
CREDITS:
Conceived and performed by Dana Michel
Lighting and technical direction Karine Gauthier
Artistic Advisors Martin Bélanger, Peter James, Mathieu Léger, Roscoe Michel, Yoan Sorin
Sound Consultant David Drury
Executive Production Dana Michel
Production déléguée Par B.L.eux
Distribution Key Performance – Koen Vanhove
COPRODUCTION:
CDC Atelier de Paris-Carolyn Carlson (Paris), Chapter (Cardiff), Festival TransAmériques (Montréal), ImPulsTanz (Vienne), Tanz im August (Berlin)
CREATIVE RESIDENCIES:
Usine C (Montréal), Dancemakers (Toronto), ImPulsTanz (Vienne), Actoral/La Friche Belle de Mai (Marseille), WOOP (Douarnenez), CDC Atelier de Paris-Carolyn Carlson (Paris), M.A.I. (Montréal).
The creation of this work was made possible thanks to the financial support of Conseil des Arts du Canada et du Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.
Premiere 02 juin 2016 - Festival TransAmériques (Montréal, Canada).
Part of #CanadaGoesGlasgow, a year-long programme promoting the next generation of inspiring Canadian talent showcased across the city of Glasgow in 2020
Dana Michel is an artist associate of Par B.L.eux