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Mascall Dance Boldly Defies Gravity and Convention with The White Spider

11-08-2011 02:32 AM CET | Arts & Culture

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A Choreographic Exploration of Physicality, Confrontation, and Freedom in the World's Most Dangerous Pursuit

A Choreographic Exploration of Physicality, Confrontation, and Freedom in the World's Most Dangerous Pursuit

VANCOUVER, BC – Mascall Dance presents the powerful and viscerally thrilling work, The White Spider, Friday, November 25, 2011 at The Norman Rothstein Theatre, following a province-wide tour where it broke box office records. Choreographed by Artistic Director Jennifer Mascall, the full-length piece combines athletic choreography, towering, sculptural installations, and sophisticated aerial effects to explore the extreme sport of mountaineering, and the passion and thrill that drives individuals to pursue it.

“In his 1959 book, The White Spider, Heinrich Harrer chronicles the adventures of the brave and determined individuals who dared to climb the north face of Switzerland’s Eiger Mountain, also known as ‘murderous-wall’,” says Mascall. “The work takes its inspiration from Harrer’s words, and through them we aim to convey the raw physicality, complexity, and surprising grace that mountaineering demands. Blending traditional contemporary dance with abstract elements, we explore what it is about humans that compels us to pursue an act that is at once utterly thrilling, totally punishing, and potentially deadly.”

The White Spider features five dancers who climb, rappel, fly, and dance on the walls and ceiling of a massive, shifting and ever-changing set. A captivating struggle for survival unfolds, as the artists fight to gain purchase on steeply raked slopes, physically supporting and hauling one another as they drive themselves onwards, free falling into space, thus leaving behind the confines of gravity.

Acclaimed sculptor and designer Alan Storey abstractly recreates the rock face of the 1,800 meter Eiger Wall - floating discs, steeply raked planes, and towering metal frames cement the space on which the dancers leap, tumble, and summit. The mountain’s haunting landscape is complete through chilling projections by Cande Andrade, atmospheric lighting from James Proudfoot, and a driving soundscape by composer Jeff Corness.

The White Spider enjoyed its world premiere, performing to sold-out houses, as part of the 2010 Vancouver Cultural Olympiad and during the 2010 Vancouver International Dance Festival. The piece recently toured to Vernon, Prince Rupert, Smithers, and Kitimat.

About Mascall Dance
Mascall Dance is a Vancouver-based company recognized regionally, nationally, and internationally as a cutting edge – provocative dance company. Since its beginning in 1989, Mascall Dance has established a solid reputation for innovation, excellence, and its contribution to dance and the performing arts.

Mascall Dance is committed to promoting public appreciation and exposure to dance and related arts, as well as researching human movement and physical motivation. Mascall Dance’s artistic objective is to provide a forum for research, creation performance, education, documentation, and dissemination of contemporary dance and related disciplines. The company is concerned with dance as an art form and with its significance to our culture.

For more information, visit: www.mascalldance.ca

About Jennifer Mascall, Artistic Director
Jennifer Mascall began her prolific career as a solo improviser and soon received international acclaim. As a young choreographer, she was nicknamed maverick, a visionary, and "the enfant terrible of Canadian dance". Mascall's work has consistently fulfilled this promise, defying expectations and challenging the known for more than 30 years. Early works, such as The Shostakovich and The Light at the End Of The Tunnel May Be Another Train Coming Toward You, are characteristically inventive, insightful, and witty.

Mascall is still breaking new ground, still fiercely intellectual and heart-driven, creating works characterized by deeply rendered relationships, unorthodox compositional and creative choices, and brave collaborations. Recent choreographic triumphs include the remount of Traces of E. Carr, an interdisciplinary dance portrait based on the paintings and journals of iconic BC artist Emily Carr, Homewerk, an interactive educational piece performed for more than 10,000 school children, the quirky and resonant signature solo show "What?" premiered by well-loved BC dance artist Ron Stewart, and The White Spider, now completing a fall Made In BC Tour with performances at Vancouver's Norman Rothstein Theatre on November 25, 2011.

Artist, dance advocate, educator, researcher, teacher, and collaborator, Mascall does things that others don't dare to. Mascall continues to devise ingenious experimental dance projects based on all facets of movement, and remains a luminary in contemporary Canadian dance.

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