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LOST in TRANS Conceived and performed by Dickie Beau
Curated and presented by FADO Performance Art Centre In the context of Progress
DATES & TIMES
VENUE The Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen Street West, Toronto Wheelchair accessible space / Gender neutral washrooms
INFO Language: Performed in English
TICKETS Single Tickets: $25 | PURCHASE TICKETS
Dickie Beau presents a poetic performance of peculiar personas. LOST in TRANS takes Dickie’s sensational multimedia aesthetic to hallucinatory new heights.
Continuing his shtick of using playback, in which he ‘channels’ voices he sees as being misplaced, misrepresented or misunderstood, Dickie breathes new life into found sound, ‘re-writing’ audio artefacts and playing them back through his body to become a live performing archive of the missing.
Presenting a compelling constellation of vivid characters inspired by cultural antiquity and Ovid’s Metamorphoses, LOST in TRANS is an off-road trip through the cultural archives. Cyclops, the one-eyed giant, becomes a third eye through which we view the world anew, including a radical re-visioning of Echo, the Nymph, of whom all that remained when she died of a broken heart was the sound of her voice…
“Phenomenal talent…a powerful and moving artist…breathtaking.”
“Dickie Beau is the closest this country has to a genuine medium, an auteur of the airwaves, who can put flesh onto recorded sound in a manner both gripping and disturbing.”
CREDITS LOST in TRANS was a Southbank Centre commission supported by a Jardin d’Europe contemporary dance award and a residency at Cullberg Ballet, Stockholm and has been presented at: Southbank Centre in London, Contact in Manchester, Homotopia Festival, Liverpool, Artsadmin, London, and City of Women Festival, Ljubljana (curated as part of the Live Art Development Agency’s "Just Like a Woman" programme).
Conceived and performed by: Dickie Beau Producer: Sally Rose Dramaturg: Julia Bardsley Lighting Design: Marty Langthorne Sound Design: Will Saunders Video filming and post-production Consultant: Lukas Demgenski Lighting operator: Nao Nagai Video consultant: Gillian Tan Video operator: Aaron Pollard (Toronto) Pegasus: Stephen Lawson (Toronto) Production Manager: Deborah Lim (Toronto)
THIS IS PROGRESS Progress is an international festival of performance and ideas presented in partnership by SummerWorks Performance Festival and The Theatre Centre. The festival is collectively curated and produced by a series of Toronto-based companies, operating within a contemporary performance context.
Progress 2018 is curated by: SummerWorks Performance Festival, The Theatre Centre, Anandam Dancetheatre, FADO Performance Art Centre, Little Black Afro Theatre Company, Toronto Dance Community Love-In, and Volcano Theatre.
Progress Team Presented by: SummerWorks Performance Festival & The Theatre Centre Festival Producer: Sue Balint Festival Production Manager: Pip Bradford Graphic Design: Monnet Design Web Design: Kyle Purcell For media inquiries: Red Eye Media / Suzanne Cheriton
As a Festival that brings together performance nationally and internationally, Progress wishes to acknowledge that the festival takes place on the traditional territory, Tkaronto, “Where the Trees Meet the Water,” “The Gathering Place” of the Mississauga, Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and Wendat Nations. As we come together, we pay our respects to all our relations who have gathered and will continue to gather in this place.
ACCESSIBILITY [Photo credit: Joel Fildes] [ Special Presentations ] + IMAGE GALLERY: LOST in TRANS |
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