Timecode Break
Created in collaboration with videographer Nico Stagias, Timecode Break was a massive project that combined live dance in counterpoint with video images of the same dancers. It premiered at the Canada Dance Festival and toured across the county and to New York and London, UK.
Premiered National Arts Centre, Ottawa,
June 2, 2006
Timecode Break was featured in the documentary Ahead of the Curve by Rock Island Productions in 2007
Created with and first performed by Johanna Bergfelt, Valerie Calam, Paul-Anthony Chambers, Alana Elmer, Luke Garwood, Brendan Jensen, Kristy Kennedy, Louis Laberge-Côté, Sean Ling, Brenda Little, Matthew Waldie and Linnea Wong
Video
Nico Stagias
Sound Design
Phil Strong
Lighting
Steve Lucas
Costumes
Jeremy Laing
Rehearsal direction
Rosemary James
“... Timecode Break is a work of such brilliance that it is ahead of the curve...a technical tour de force of complicated dance patterns...a mesmerizing evocation of the moving body in space.”
Globe and Mail
“Best Canadian Work of the Year.”
Globe and Mail
“Best of 2006”
NOW Weekly
Dora Mavor Moore Award
for Choreography, Production and Sound Design
Photos of Luke Garwood, Matt Waldie, Valerie Calam and Kristy Kennedy by Cylla von Tiedemann