Dusk Dances 2010

Posted on July 3rd, 2010


contingency_12bCome 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

Dancing on the Edge 2010: Edge One

Posted on July 3rd, 2010


pa062183Please join The Contingency Plan for EDGE One at the Dancing on the Edge Festival 2010.

Caesura
Choreography: Justine A. Chambers

Performance: Vanessa Goodman & Jane Osborne

This duet is inspired by the literary term referring to a pause that breaks up a line of verse in order to convey meaning. Caesura creates an intricate moving conversation punctuated by the many ways we take pause in our daily lives.

Caesura was commissioned by Jane & Vanessa in 2009. It was first presented by SYIDA in June 2009 in Whitehorse, Yukon, and following that, here in Vancouver at the Roundhouse in Oct 2009.

It will be performed at DOTE as part of EDGE One, together with work by Science Friction and The Chimera Project.

July 9th, 2010 @ 7pm
July 11th, 2010 @ 7pm
At the Firehall Arts Centre

For more information, including TICKET info, visit:
Firehall Arts Centre

Photo Credit: Jonathan Dy

SHINE

Posted on May 24th, 2010


shine-poster-2010

Desirée Dunbar, The Contingency Plan, Puppet Heresy, Brenna McLaud, Sudnya Mulye, Peter Starr and Startdance present new works in MACC’s Connecting Community Dance Series, SHINE.

Desirée Dunbar Dance Projects and the Moberly Arts and Cultural Centre present SHINE a Connecting Community Dance Series. The production will feature compelling new dance works created and performed by established, emerging and community dance artists.

SHINE: June 3rd, 4th & 5th at 8 pm
In the Moberly Arts and Cultural Centre’s intimate Studio Theatre
7646 Prince Albert St, Vancouver
Tickets: $15 purchased at the door
Box office opens at 7:00 pm
For more information please call (604) 718-6521

Adhere at BC Buds Spring Arts Fair

Posted on April 18th, 2010


fernThe 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.
Please join us on:
Friday May 21st at 8:10pm & Saturday May 22nd at 7:20pm in the Theatre at The Firehall Arts Centre!
ADMISSION IS FREE!
For more info visit: The Firehall Arts Centre

New Trio By Choreographer James Gnam

Posted on February 17th, 2010


vidf3 The Contingency Plan is excited to announce that James Gnam of The Plastic Orchid Factory will begin creation for a new trio on us in March 2010. An excerpt of the material generated from our first research period with James will be shown March 28th at the Arts Umbrella Sunday Performance Series.
3:30pm at Arts Umbrella on Granville Island. Admission by Donation.



The Contingency Plan Trio
SITE BY PRETTY/UGLY DESIGNPHOTOGRAPH BY JONATHAN DY