By Pepper Parr
March 22nd, 2018
BURLINGTON, ON
Think in terms of dance that is both fluid and dramatic that runs for more than an hour while you are expected to walk about the space to observe. It is called installation art. Not sure what that is?
Spend some time at the Art Gallery of Burlington on Sunday April 8th, starting at 3:30 in the afternoon in the Lee Chin Gallery and learn more about it.
The performance runs for 70 minutes but you’re not expected to stand around for the full 70 minutes.
Peggy Baker, a dancer who has choreographed an event that is about how we care for each other will be performing with a group of dancers.
The event is a collaboration between the Performing Arts Centre and the Art Gallery of Burlington.
The rehearsals took place at the Performing Arts Centre where 16 local performers – community members, dancers, actors, yoga practitioners worked with Baker to refine the program that explores the nature of both giving and receiving care.
… the basic duality of caregiving – the giving and receiving of water.
While working in pairs, the performers will use one-of-a-kind pitchers and bowls – contributed by local ceramic artists – to represent the basic duality of care-giving – the giving and receiving of water. The audience is encouraged to move around the space and view the dance installation from all sides and differing perspectives.
This unique experience is a free event.
Peggy Baker, dancer, choreographer.
Peggy Baker, the dancer, choreographer that created this work describes it this way: “MOVE calls up a multitude of ancient and timeless images; earth being plowed, the molding of clay, the kneading of bread, a midwife at work, a storm gathering, the swell of an ocean, the movement of a glacier, the heaving of a continent, the passing of time…”
It is dance that is energetic and at the same time contemplative and quiet.
At The Art Gallery of Burlington, Sunday, April 8 at 3:30pm
This event is a partnership between the Burlington Performing Arts Centre and The Art Gallery of Burlington.
