From September 25 to October 7, 2006, the Clash event hosted its very first team of choreographers and artists at Tangente.
Two public presentations took place on October 6 and 7, 2006, 8:30 pm, at Tangente (840 Cherrier Street, Montreal), with choreographers Dana Gingras, k.g. Guttman, and Ame Henderson and dancer Sarah Doucet.
Dana GINGRAS
Dana Maria Gingras was born in Canada then grew up in Argentina and Scotland.
In 1993, Gingras (with Noam Gagnon and Jean Yves Theriault) co-founded
The Holy Body Tattoo as a multi-media dance company that seeks a performance
language that gathers a sense of humanity through effort, repetition,
scale and humility.
Since its inception, the HBT has received both critical and audience
acclaim with performances in Canada, U.S. and Europe. The company has been
Artist
in Residence at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre since 1998 and has
captured a number of significant awards and honours for both its stage and
film
work.
our brief eternity captured nominations in both dance categories of The
Dora Mavor Moore Awards in 1997, winning Best Ensemble Performance. The
film version
of Poetry & Apocalypse has been screened in over 16 different international
film festivals, winning several awards. Circa, which received the inaugural
Alcan Performing Arts Award, has been performed over 100 times around the world,
including at Ein Fest in Wuppertal in Germany at the invitation of Pina Bausch
and at London’s Barbican Theatre. monumental, The Holy Body Tattoo’s
most recent work premiered in Ottawa at the National Arts Centre in February
2005 and involves the company’s largest performing ensemble to date.
Gingras has collaborated internationally on a number of different projects
with a wide range of artists and is currently working with animator and
programmer James Paterson on the creation of Smash Up, a full evening presentation
conceived
as a collision between movement, animation and sound.
k.g. GUTTMAN
Interprète, chorégraphe et vidéaste, k.g. Guttman a travaillé pour
Le Groupe Lab de danse (Peter Boneham) à Ottawa pendant quatre ans.
Elle est interprète pour les chorégraphes Louise Bédard,
Tedd Robinson et Lynda Gaudreau, entre autres. Pendant ses résidences à la
Co-op Saw Video (Ottawa), au Centre de Production Daimon et chez La Bande Video
(Québec), elle a réalisé des vidéos visionnés à travers
le Canada et à l’international. Ses chorégraphies ont été présentées à Tangente
(Montréal), au Loft (Bruxelles), à l’Univeristé de
Sonora (Mexique), au Festival Danse Canada (Ottawa) et dans les séries
du Groupe Studio A (Ottawa). Elle était chorégraphe-en-résidence
au Studio Flak (José Navas), 2005. k.g. a reçu le Brian Webb
Choreographic Award 1997 et le Dennis Tourbin Emerging Artist Award 2001.
Présentement elle poursuit une maîtrise en arts visuels à l’Université Concordia
où elle a reçu la Bourse Armand C. Archambault. Elle vient de
revenir d’Amsterdam où elle a étudié à l’école
reputée DasArts.
Ame HENDERSON
Ame Henderson is a dance artist originally from Vancouver Island and
currently living in Toronto. Her works Blue* *Disco (2002), memories
and statements
(2004), Manual for Incidence (2005) and the ongoing investigation
The Instruction Project
(2006), have been presented in Croatia, The Netherlands and Canada.
Public Recordings, founded in 2004, is a developing structure to
support and
produce her creative projects. The new work /Dance/Songs/ was developed
at Le Groupe
Dance Lab and will premiere in November 2006. As a performer, Ame
collaborates regularly with Small Wooden Shoe and was a participant in the
panel “Fragile
Positions: Performance in the 21st Century” in Halifax (2004). Ame
is a co-director of Hub 14, a performance and research space in Toronto.
Sarah DOUCET
From Halifax to Winnipeg, Montreal and currently Toronto, Sarah Doucet
has been dancing for 23 years. After 10 years with the Royal Winnipeg
Ballet
and a spinal cord injury from a car accident, she moved to Montreal
to train in
contemporary dance.
Her professional career began in the mid 90's with Tammy Forsythe
(Tusket), followed by 4 years with Lynda Gaudreau (Compagnie De
Brune).
Sarah has worked on her own and in collaboration, frequently with
Jenn Goodwin (Turbobonz Dance Projects) and recently with their
own company,
Stutter Dance.
Their work has been presented in New York, Brussels, Vancouver
and Toronto.
In 2003, Sarah joined the Holy Body Tattoo for the creation of
monumental and continues to work with them and independently with
Dana Gingras
(Animals of
Distinction).