PRESSED PARADISE
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Introducing Pressed Paradise
Outside the Vancouver Art Gallery
Interactive performances exploring topics of gender, environment, immigration & consumption.
Guest Artist: Sepehr Samimi
Photos: Sepehr Samimi
March 27, 2016
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Death Wall
On the Vancouver SeaWall
A durational performance exploring consumption, waste and excess.
Guest artist: Elissa Hanson
Photos: Illeanna Cheladyn
April 18, 2016
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House of Paradise
1934 William st
5 solos in 5 rooms in a house for 5 hours.
Guest artist: Sepehr Samimi
Photos: Yvonne Chew / Sophia Wolfe
May 14, 2016
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PP Mailbox
The Dance Centre
A mailbox where Dance Centre visitors are encouraged to leave some mail for Pressed Paradise that may inspire performances that will happen in the building. Tell us what you’re thinking about. What’s on your mind? Do you have a question? A sensation? A hope? A fear? A complaint? A reflection?
November 2016-September 2017
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A Game in the Loading Bay
TDC Loading Bay
A durational performance installation with the players: Mr. Oil, Mr. Government, Mr. Wall Street & Mr. Bank.
Guest Artist: Robert Azevedo
Photos: Christian Vistan
January 19+20, 2017
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Rolling Boil
The Dance Centre Rooftop Patio
Rolling Boil is a gathering, a conjuring, a ritual and a subversion. The audience, as witnesses, are necessary to complete this spell. Through breathe, unison, repetition, and precision the performers blur the lines between the flesh of their dancing bodies and the flesh of the world around them.
Created & performed by Kelly McInnes and Rianne Svelnis
Photos: Yvonne Chew
April 6+7, 2017
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Pressed Paradise: International Dance Day
TDC elevator, loading bay, foyer, patio, closet
Pressed Paradise activates unconventional spaces at The Dance Centre for International Dance Day.
April 29, 2017
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Marathassa
English Bay
A durational movement piece with 12 performers in remembrance of ship MV Marathassa's oil spill on April 9th 2015.
Presented with Vines Art Festival
April 9, 2016
Guest artists: Alisha Lemire, Carolina Bergonzoni, Danielle Lavallée, June Fukumara, Katie Gartlan-Close, Marc Castellini, Robert Azevedo, Sammy Chien, Sepehr Samimi, Tin Gamboa, Valerie Chrisitansen
June 3, 2018
Guest artists: Diego Romero Hayley Gawthrop, Cameron Davidson, Sammy Chien, Tin Gamboa, Olivia Shaffer, Laura Avery, Kimberly Ho, Dario Dinuzzi, Alisha Ahmadi, Justin Van, Maria Escola, Carmel Amit
Photos: Sheng Ho
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Movement Practice
Burrard Bridge
Durational perfomance rolling across Burrard Bridge considering our relationship to water.
Guest Artist: Robert Azevedo
Photos: Christian Vistan
July 26, 2019
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MINE
David Lam Park
Durational solo performance by Kelly McInnes exploring fast-fashion, identity and consumption.
Presented with Vines Art Festival
Photos: Sheng Ho
August 13, 2019