Dusk Dances 2010
Posted on July 3rd, 2010
Come join us in the park for Dusk Dances as part of the Dancing on the Edge Festival 2010!
Strathcona High, Class of ‘56
Choreography & Performance: The Contingency Plan
Strathcona High Class of ’56 explores the sexual repression of the 1950‘s, taking the audience on an emotionally tumultuous journey. This quirky piece introduces you to three teenage girls, giddy with excitement as they arrive at their high school prom. These three characters are emotionally enthusiastic, vulnerable and volatile. As the piece unfolds, the young women abandon their aspirations of love, embracing a fierce independence with reckless abandon.
Show Dates and Times:
Queen Elizabeth Park (Contact the Box Office at Firehall Arts Centre for information and directions}
Wednesday, July 14 Dusk
Thursday, July 15 Dusk
Friday , July 16 Dusk
Saturday, July 17 Dusk
* Show Starts at 7pm
This is a FREE event!
Also performing @ Dusk Dances:
Host: Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg
Meredith Kalaman
Zhenya Cerneacov
Sylvie Bouchard
& David Danzon
For more information on the festival visit:
The Firehall Arts Centre
“The much rowdier Contingency Plan (Vanessa Goodman, Jane Osborne, and Leigha Wald) gamely hammed it up under a banner that read Strathcona High Class of ‘56 (also the title of the work). Clad in perfect pastel dresses and looking like extras from Peggy Sue Got Married, their high schoolers went from the nervous energy of a slow dance set to the crooning of Elvis Presley (a protective group huddle gave way to groping dance partners from the audience) and devolved into stripping down to their knickers in an anachronistic, tribal tribute to Fleetwood Mac’s “Tusk”. Altogether twisted and inspired.”
JANET SMITH, The Georgia Straight, August 7/09
Photo Credit: Bartosz Barczak
Please join The Contingency Plan for EDGE One at the Dancing on the Edge Festival 2010.
The Contingency Plan is pleased to announce that they will be performing their newest creation Adhere, at this year’s BC Buds Spring Arts Fair. Adhere explores the notion of isolation, and how it relates to a sense of place within landscapes, oneself and urban environments. This work focuses on revealing the relationship between the politics of the body and the politics of how we inhabit space in our culture.
The Contingency Plan is excited to announce that 
PHOTOGRAPH BY JONATHAN DY
