An original dance-video installation
Created and Directed by David Ferguson
Featuring Jung ah Chung
Sound and Costume Design by Miles Lowry
Director of Photography: Daniel Carruthers
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=0D=0A=Suddenly Dance Theatre’s latest outdoor dance-video installation utilizes the vertical garden on the west side of the CRD Building as a projection surface. Created by David Ferguson, OPHELIA features dancer Jung ah Chung in reference to Shakespeare’s misunderstood character. However, she is not succumbing in calm rapture to the watery elements of mental illness and abandonment as she is usually portrayed. With a costume designed by Miles Lowry, Ferguson’s OPHELIA is a woman made of flowers, camouflaged by stillness yet made visible through a suspended dance. The repeated cycle of her emergence and vanishment becomes a silent beacon for those missing, outcast, unnoticed, and disappeared.
Where is the Living Wall?: Enter Centennial Square at the corner of Fisgard and Government Street. Look up!
Are you listening?: OPHELIA has an original soundtrack by Miles Lowry available for streaming. If you are in Victoria, BC you can watch the film and listen on your own portable device.