TANVEER ALAM + SONIA ST-MICHEL & JULIE BEAULIEU

Tanveer Alam
Éclosion

This young Bangladeshi-Canadian virtuoso sets out to awaken his own body and spirit. Inspired by Kathak innovator Kumudini Lakhia, he asks, What can I bring to this dance form? Why does it need me? Within an electronic soundscape, he establishes a non-linear time frame, unbinding his choreography from the structure of Indian classical music. As he articulates rhythmic patterns, emotion and compositional form merge. His visceral, nuanced dance reaches out across the space, but also into the depths of his body. The dancer reinvents himself through the dance.

Sonia St-Michel & Julie Beaulieu
ARUPA

Bharatanatyam encounters Odissi, as seen through the lens of contemporary dance and of these dancemakers’ experiences. Like two contemplative warriors, they move from invocation to evocation. Body, memory, thought, images, traces exist somewhere between form and formlessness in their shapeshifting dance. Following the patterns of a yantra, a ritualized geometric space inspired by diagrams and games, they construct an architecture of sound and movement: an imaginary temple.