A year ago, I had just opened LITTLE BIG MAN REMIX with Terrance Houle and Ulysses Castellanos for ANDPVA & launched the exhibit for Planet IndigenUS. Then I raced off to Wales to teach workshops and create performances with Phil Babot for the  National Eisteddfod and Art Central’s 40th Anniversary revival of the Barry Summer School. Came back in August to take LITTLE BIG MAN to the Dunlop Gallery in Regina. Worked with stellar young artists (Candice Irwin, Sochi Fried & Sean Robertson-Palmer) on WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBOURHOOD for TPM’s Beyond Walls Street Fair. Went to Italy to research a new project. Went on a mini-tour of Winnipeg & Victoria with MOVIE MONSTER.

Ended up in NYC to see my friend, James Tyson, dance his ass off at the MOMA. Made MOLES DANCING for the Experimentica! festival in Wales and had a blast of a time, then remounted it at Rhubarb! Spent Christmas in Montreal and started workshopping a new piece, HAMMER, at Playwrights Workshop
Montreal with Chad Dembski. Showed a version of it in May at hub14.
Went to Ottawa to be part of the Magnetic North Festival with a new piece, AGENDA, for SubDevisions. Now I’m working on the next incarnation of HAMMER.

I really want you to see HAMMER.

Hammer asks the question, “How close can we get?” What are the physical and emotional obstacles to connecting?  Let’s start in the body, where experience has built up invisible walls between us. How do we tear them down? HAMMER interweaves personal facts and fictions, offering my own fanciful “processing techniques” for rage, grief and compliance,while I muse about feminism, family history and avant-garde performance.  The audience starts at safe distance and then slowly succumbs to a final act of trust.

SummerWorks + hub14 art & performance works present

HAMMER – August 2013

HAMMER