Choreography
The Habit
Title of piece: The Habit
Choreographer: Gemma Crowe
Performers: Erin Lequereux, Jess Ames, Jen Aoki & Jacq Smith
The Habit explores subconscious, physical, habits by developing them, adopting them, taking them out of context and letting them take over. The physical habits we exhibit often function as coping mechanisms and as such, are often induced by the people around us. The Habit is an abstraction of social patterns amongst groups of people, looking at how a social setting affects the individual. Life is made up of a variety of different habits, but can we identify choice against habit?
The Habit was made possible through a MascallDance BLOOM residency
Passive/aggression
Choreographer: Gemma Crowe
Dancers: Alyssa Perron, Cayley Hanrahan & Kimberley Ilott
Passive/ aggression is a choreographic work 2 years in the making. Performed at The Lab Art Show 2013 in Vancouver, BC and the 2014 Fluid Movements Arts Festival as part of the Physical Therapy Program in Calgary, AB
Irony underlies movement resurrected from a past performance. With a physical sarcasm Passive/aggression is passively aggressive with a capital P! Side by side, dancers systematically confront the space in front of them advancing, ascerting and retracting to no avail. Toeing the line with fierce indifference the dancers represent the struggle between the combat and recoil of truly expressing themselves. Spatial tension becomes the catalyst for the dancers’ futile attempts as their focus is directed, glazed, gazing further into the space they can not reach.