ADAPTATION PROJECT (2012)

by Michael Trent and Dancemakers

Dancemakers' Artistic Director Michael Trent re-imagines a dance from the Company’s 100-plus repertoire, a body of work amassed over its 38-year history and created by noted Canadian and international artists. Wanting something other than a traditional remount, Trent creates a new dance piece in response to choreographer Mitchell Rose’s 1974 Following Station Identification, a ‘satirical dance on middle-American values’ set to music by Luciano Berio and Lukas Foss.

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Premiere: April 2012
Dancemakers Centre for Creation

Choreography by Michael Trent

Created with and originally performed by 
 Robert Abubo, Amanda Acorn, Kate Holden, Benjamin Kamino and Simon Renaud

Composer: Christopher Willes
Musician: Thom Gill
Lighting Designer: Kimberly Purtell
Costume Designer: Vanessa Fischer

 

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The Adaptation Project. A re-imagined performance by Michael Trent based on Mitchell Rose's Following Station Identification (1974). Confronting our past, with love. With composition by Christopher Gilles and Thom Gill based on the music of Luciano Berio and Lucas Foss. Performed by and created with Robert Abubo, Amanda Acorn, Kate Holden, Benjamin Kamino, Simon Renaud and Thom Gill.

Adaptation Project: a re-imagined performance by Michael Trent and Dancemakers based on Mitchell Rose's Following Station Identification (1974). Confronting our past, with love. With sound by Christopher Willes and Thom Gill based on music by Luciano Berio, Lukas Foss, Crystal Castles and Blossom Dearie.