By Clara Furey, Bent Hollow Compagnie (Montreal, Canada)<\/p>\n
Recommended for audiences 16+<\/p>\n
With its celestial bodies launched into orbit, vibrating in a sensual and hypnotic ritual, Dog Rising mirrors the life-cycle, the dynamic flow of matter. From primitive impulses to gestures that are at times sexual, at times mechanical, Clara Furey\u2019s new creation comes together like a polyphony of pulsating bodies, in turns dissonant and in unison.<\/p>\n
As a point of departure for her physical research, Furey looked at bone conduction – how sound resonates in a spiral trajectory through the bones. She prefers to imagine that the vibrating shocks strengthen rather than break us. Rather than dramatize the shock, she frames it as something our skeleton needs to survive. Dog Rising opens the door to spontaneous pleasure; pulsations cause our emotions to fluctuate like waves. Neither narrative nor drama, the piece revolves around pure sensation. Notions of persistence and pleasure provoke all sorts of questions: how does our personal machine function and how can it regenerate itself? How can we replenish our resources rather than exhaust them? How can we generate energy ourselves and rely on each other so that it comes back to us? The idea of renewal is central to the work – energy deployed to edify, in pleasure rather than in suffering. Our resources need not be exhausted if they are used in the right way.<\/p>\n
The Living Things Festival takes place on the traditional, unceded and ancestral lands of the syilx people. We are grateful to live, work and play in this beautiful area.<\/p>\n
Ahead of the first performance of the festival (Dog Rising on Jan 20), we are honoured to have syilx Elder Pamela Barnes joining us. Elder Barnes will welcome festival performers and attendees to syilx territory.<\/p>\n
The show starts at 7:30 pm, but if you\u2019re attending the performance, please aim to arrive around 7:15 pm to participate in Elder Barnes\u2019 welcome<\/strong>. The welcoming will take place in the lobby of the Kelowna Community Theatre. Thank you and liml\u0259mt!<\/p>\n
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