Vancouver’s The Biting School is bringing a dance, double bill to Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre March 3rd to 5th.
The bold solo works include Kelly McInnes’ Blue Space and Arash Khakpour’s Melon Piece. The two dance solos offer a balance of light and dark, evoking a timely reflection on our current struggle to exist in harmony with one another and the planet.
In Blue Space, Kelly McInnes explores our intrinsic connection to water – the water that makes up our bodies and the world we inhabit. Full of startling imagery, this deeply-felt solo born of grief and hope explores tensions between the healing and the exploitation involved in our relationship to earth. It is an invitation to remember what we’re made of.
Blue Space is a reflection, a prayer and a mourning. It is hope, action, confusion, grief. It is remembering and healing. A celebration of oceans within oceans, waterfalls from wet eyes. Blue Space is all shades of blue.
“Blue Space is remembering we’re oceans. It is rivers of relentless care. It is wishes and prayers. It is melting, pouring, swirling sorrow and peace.”
Melon Piece is a symbolic portrayal of human dilemmas. It is a story about the primal and maturing self in constant transformation. It is a study of our contradictory desires—those we choose to act upon, and the ones we suppress and repress—through different stages of our lives.
Arash Khakpour’s work unearths embodied memories of love, joy and play to create a distracting playground of desire to drown in. Melon Piece is a living portrait of a man finding himself lost in a world of abundance.
You are born. There’s your brain. There, are your memories. It is red. It is a melon. When life hands you melons… you take them… you…
Find information about the artists at bitingschool.com and kellymcinnes.com
The performances of Blue Space + Melon Piece take place at Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre, 181 Roundhouse Mews, Thursday to Saturday, March 3-5, 2022 at 7pm with talkback after each show. Find tickets online at Eventbrite