Colder Ink
Colder Ink is unlike any other dance I’ve made in its austere abstraction. Essentially four overlapping solos, built from a long phrase I made with Laurence Lemieux, it is performed to a darkly intense guitar and tape piece by Tim Brady.
Premiered Oakville, April 9, 1994
Created with and first performed by Kate Alton, Graham McKelvie, Coralee McLaren and Michael Trent
Music
Tim Brady, Dead of Winter
Lighting
Roelof Peter Snippe
Costumes
Denis Joffre
"Colder Ink is a rigorously abstract wok, devoid of humour, that looks like a room of Henry Moore sculptures come to life."
Deirdre Kelly, Globe and Mail
"Colder Ink... a high-style piece for four dancers dressed in black, set to industrial music by Tim Brady. It feels austerely 1990s in its static use of sharp, geometric choreography and the almost exclusive separation of the dancers. There's an East Berlin, early techno feel to the gloom..."
Martha Schabas, Globe and Mail
Photos of Coralee McLaren, Graham McKelvie, Michael Trent and Kate Alton by Cylla von Tiedemann