2020-02-19 19:302020-02-20 21:3060Canada/Eastern🎟 NAC: Animals of Distinction | Dana Gingras
https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/21629
Frontera (border, frontier): a real or imaginary dividing line; the extreme limit of understanding in a particular area.
“I’m interested in seeing humans instead of dance culture on-stage, I never felt like I fit into dance culture... I want to see what moves people rather than making it beautiful.” –Dana Gingras
FRONTERA is a visually arresting total work of art, set to blur the lines between rock concert, dance and conceptual art. Dana Gingras’s...
“Gingras has become known… for the sheer pummelling force of her choreography.”
Janet Smith, THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT, 2011
≈ 75 minutes
· No intermission
Frontera (border, frontier): a real or imaginary dividing line; the extreme limit of understanding in a particular area.
“I’m interested in seeing humans instead of dance culture on-stage, I never felt like I fit into dance culture... I want to see what moves people rather than making it beautiful.” –Dana Gingras
FRONTERA is a visually arresting total work of art, set to blur the lines between rock concert, dance and conceptual art. Dana Gingras’s choreography is a highly visceral, sensually-charged physical language fueled by a sense of urgency. For her ambitious new work FRONTERA, her legendary spirit of collaboration brings together famed Montreal band Fly Pan Am to create an original score—and play live—and the UK-based United Visual Artists (UVA) whose light-based scenography articulates the dialogue between choreography, architecture and music. Performed by nine of Canada’s foremost dancers, the work rigorously investigates the meaning of progress.
FRONTERA had its world premiere in Quebec City, and toured to Montreal and Vancouver before it arrives in Ottawa. The production also opened the Sydney Festival and Berlin’s CTM Festival in January 2020.
Buckle up and prepare to be consumed by an immersive work of pure energy!
Did you know?
The live band in this dance production, Fly Pan Am, went on an extended hiatus in 2005. The group only reunited last year and released their first album C’est ça in 14 years.
Dana Gingras is a dance artist whose 20 years of work have established her as a game-changing choreographer and performer. In 1993, Dana co-founded the Holy Body tattoo with Noam Gagnon. The company won numerous awards and honours for its stage and film work, such as our brief eternity (Dora Mavor Moore award for Best Ensemble Performance) and Circa (Rio Tinto Alcan Performing arts award). Dana has collaborated with such artists as writer William Gibson, director William Morrison, musicians The Tiger Lillies and The Tindersticks, animators James Paterson and Amit Pitaru, designer Steven R. Gilmore, and most recently Arcade Fire. Dana is an associate Dance artist of Canada’s National Arts Centre.
Dana Gingras est une artiste de la danse qui évolve, depuis 20 ans, comme chorégraphe et interprète novatrice et influente. En 1993, elle a cofondé the Holy Body tattoo avec Noam Gagnon. Depuis, la compagnie a reçu un grand nombre de prix et de distinctions pour la qualité de ses chorégraphies et de ses films, notamment pour our brief eternity (prix Dora Mavor Moore de la meilleure chorégraphie d’ensemble) et Circa (prix Rio Tinto Alcan pour les arts de la scène). Dana a collaboré avec des artistes tels que l’auteur William Gibson, le réalisateur William Morrison, les groupes musicaux The Tiger Lillies et The Tindersticks, les animateurs James Paterson et Amit Pitaru, le scénographe Steven R. Gilmore et, tout récemment, Arcade Fire. Dana est artiste associée de la Danse au Centre national des Arts du Canada.
