The Mars Hotel is a response, in movement and music, to author P.W. Bridgman‘s flash fiction of the same title. Choreographed and danced by Ziyian Kwan in collaboration with Noam Gagnon, a series of vignettes unravels the word “love”, transfiguring it through kinetic imagery and sonic landscapes. The Mars Hotel has an original score by cellist Peggy Lee, performed live by the band Handmade Blade, featuring Aram Bajakian on guitar and JP Carter on trumpet. Five elite performers from Vancouver’s contemporary dance and music scenes bring to the stage, a bold exploration of relationship that engages and delights through humour, whimsy and poignancy.
“unapologetically promiscuous, polymorphous and perverse – Kwan’s queer take on love in The Mars Hotel is that she is interested in exploring its tropes in a manner that is deliberately askew, one that resists any totalizing grand narrative in favour of a slow accretion of episodes that are consistently off-kilter, that keep us off-balance and throw us off-course." – Peter Dickinson, Performance, Place & Politics
Warning: partial nudity
https://www.rmts.bc.ca/events/dumb-instrument-dance-2017-metro-studio
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