#DanceForth Feasting on Famine

Start: 2020-10-08T22:00:00-04:00
End: 2020-10-09T22:00:00-04:00

Radical System Art / Shay Kuebler

https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/27487

NAC Livestream

Feasting on Famine looks to explore themes on obsession, addiction, commodification and corporatization. Using health-fitness and bodybuilding culture as a lens, Feasting on Famine explores how corporations have altered, created and monetized the industries of “success” and “health”. The human being becomes both the proponent and the dependent of big business. The body becomes a corporation where body-fat, water, calories and muscle mass are the measures for profit and...

Thu, October 8, 2020

10 PM EDT

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#DanceForth Feasting on Famine

Oct 8, 2020 - 10 PM EDT

Livestream

Dance

NAC Livestream
≈ 45 minutes · No intermission

Feasting on Famine looks to explore themes on obsession, addiction, commodification and corporatization. Using health-fitness and bodybuilding culture as a lens, Feasting on Famine explores how corporations have altered, created and monetized the industries of “success” and “health”. The human being becomes both the proponent and the dependent of big business. The body becomes a corporation where body-fat, water, calories and muscle mass are the measures for profit and loss margins. Where gains and profits are paramount, success is attained at any and all costs.

Radical System Art (RSA) was formed in February of 2014, in Vancouver, BC, Canada. RSA aims to create performance works that push innovation in both the physical and visual arts. Artistic Director Shay Kuebler is an artist whose foundation began in dramatic arts and traditional martial arts at the age of 4. Shay places a great emphasis on honouring and supporting his diverse background in the arts through continued study and training, which has included focused studies in martial arts, dance, theatre and music in Brazil, Japan, China and The USA.

This #DanceForth event is an NAC Dance presentation, livestreamed from The Dance Centre in Vancouver.

A small invitation-only audience will be present at the show, following all venue safety protocols.

Artists

Featuring Shay Kuebler
Featuring Shay Kuebler

Shay began his artistic development at the age of 5 with dramatic arts and martial arts in Shito-Ryu Karate. His early artistic growth would lead to dance and a versatile background in Hip Hop, Jazz, Tap, Contemporary and Ballet. He continues to develop and further his artistic practice through travel and intensive study, which has included study in music, theatre, dance and martial arts in the USA, Brazil, Japan and China. As a performer, he has worked in the fields of Tap, Hip Hop, Contemporary Dance, Circus Arts, Film and Theatre. He has performed for numerous companies across Canada, USA and The UK, including Kidd Pivot, Holy Body Tattoo, Pachimama Theatre, Line 1 and Company 605. He has choreographed and directed works for The American Dance Festival, CitieBallet, Les Grands Ballet Canadiens, Moment Factory and Decidedly Jazz Danceworks. In Vancouver, he was co-founder of The 605 Collective, and as the founder and Artistic Director of Shay Kuebler Radical System Art, he has produced and directed four full-evening dance works that have toured nationally and internationally: Karoshi, Glory, Telemetry, Feasting on Famine and Epilogos. In 2010, he received the Holy Body Tattoo emerging artist award and in 2014 received The Mayor’s Arts Award for emerging dance artist from the City of Vancouver.

Shay Kuebler a débuté son cheminement artistique dès l’âge de cinq ans en suivant des cours d’art dramatique et d’art martial (karaté Shito-Ryu). Son développement artistique précoce l’a conduit à la danse, plus particulièrement au hip-hop, au jazz, à la claquette, à la danse contemporaine et au ballet. Il continue d’approfondir sa pratique artistique éclectique grâce à des voyages et à des formations intensives, notamment en musique, en théâtre, en danse et en arts martiaux aux États-Unis, au Brésil, au Japon et en Chine. En tant qu’interprète, il a travaillé dans le domaine de la claquette, du hip-hop, de la danse contemporaine, des arts du cirque, du cinéma et du théâtre. Il s’est produit avec de nombreuses compagnies au Canada, aux États-Unis et au Royaume-Uni, dont Kidd Pivot, Holy Body Tattoo, Pachimama Theatre, Line 1 et Company 605. Il a chorégraphié et dirigé des œuvres pour l’American Dance Festival, le Citie Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Moment Factory et Decidedly Jazz Danceworks. À Vancouver, il a cofondé le 605 Collective et fondé le Shay Kuebler Radical System Art, où en tant que directeur artistique, il a produit et dirigé cinq œuvres de danse intégrales qui ont été présentées en tournée au Canada et à l’internationale : Karoshi, Glory, Telemetry, Feasting on Famine et Epilogos. Il a reçu le prix de l’artiste émergent de Holy Body Tattoo (2010) et le prix des arts du maire de la Ville de Vancouver dans la catégorie artiste émergent en danse (2014).
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