Laborious Song (2020)
Drawing on an imagery imbued with her personal history, Canadian choreographer Daina Ashbee traces the contours of a vulnerability that transcends genders.
Laborious Song explores the interstices between the angst and the playful jubilation of a peripheral and naked body.
Magnificently precise Benjamin Kamino abandons himself to an obsessive repetitive and accumulative leitmotiv. He appropriates the territory, summoning a self-destructive violence that brings about temporary relief.
The piece bathes into being a marshy universe. The falls of the performer are also dives in shallow water. Gianni Bardaro's music infiltrates the hollow spaces of all present bodies and its throbbing drone slowly dissipates the collective pain.
Credits
Artistic Direction & Choreography: Daina Ashbee
in collaboration w/& performed by: Benjamin Kamino
Music Composition: Gianni Bardaro
Lighting Design: Vito Walter
Production: Daina Ashbee
Duration: 60 minutes
Photo: David Wong
Video: Nicolas VanAchter
Supported by: Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres de Québec, Usine-C, Centre de Création O Vertigo - CCOV
Residencies: The Chocolate Factory, New York City - Plataforma 322, Puerto Vallarta
Premiere: March 3, 2020 – KVS, Brussels, Belgium
Calendar
June 11 & 12 2021
Performance Mix Festival
Abrons Centre
New York City, New York
October 5th & 6th 2021
actoral festival
Usine-C
Montreal, QC
July 3rd & 4th 2021
Montpellier Danse Festival
Montpellier, France
October 3rd & 4th 2020
actoral Festival
Marseille, France
July 7th 2020
Montpellier Danse Festival
Montpellier, France
(CANCELLED)
World premiere
March 3rd 2020
Kaaitheatre's WoWmen Festival
at KVS
Brussles, Belgium
Work-in-Progress presentation
November 21st 2020
EMERGE
Musée d'Art Contemporain
Montréal, QC
Work-in-Progress presentation
June 1 & 2
OFFTA 2019
Montréal, QC