6.58: Manifesto presents a choreographic tryptic, which critically explores the concept of artifice and artificiality, as constructs of our contemporary society.
Artificiality as a post-industrial reality that silently filters into our minds and bodies, as we are intertwined amongst technology and machines. Artifice is observed as artificiality’s seduction that wraps our experiences, interactions and notion of the future human. A human that is both artificial and artifice. 6 dancers, in conversation with the hegemony of a machine, opera singer, and DJ; transverse 3 disarticulated tableaux while experimenting on the notion of flesh and mind, as mediated by external forces.
- Length : 60 minutes
- Year of creation : 2019
- 6 dancers and 1 Soprano
- Educational project available on demand
- Workshops
Costs covered by the theater
- Hotel : 2 single bedrooms + 4 double bedroom
- Perdiem : 10 people on tour
- A 500€ fee for the local transport of the company
Costs covered by the company
- Cargo
- International transport
Fee
- Stage Dimensions: 40 x 50 ft
- Set up : 5 hours
- Strike : 2 hours
- Fly bars
Choreography : Andrea Peña in Collaboration with the artists
Performers : Laura Toma, Erin O’Loughlin, Kevin Delaney, Francois Richard, Marcio Vinicius Silveira, Benjamin Landsberg
Soprano : Erin Lindsay
Composer : dull
Costume Designers : Polin Boltova & Rodoflo Moraga
Visual Dramaturge & Lighting Designer : Hugo Dalphond
Video and photos : Bobby Leon
Résidencies in Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (Banff, AB), Arsenal Art Contemporain (Montréal, QC).
Andrea Peña benefits from the support of Banff Center for Arts and Creativity , Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec, Danse Danse, Arsenal Art Contemporain.
Originally from Bogota, Colombia, Andrea Peña is a multidisciplinary artist whose creative practice transverses the fields of art installation, choreography and design. Founded in 2014, Andrea Peña & Artists is recognized within Canada and internationally for her creation of critical, alternative and spatial universes that that rupture our notions of a sensible humanity and engage in deep encounters between the physical body and the self. Peña’s highly intricate, vulnerable and raw choreography, is situated at a national and international scale presenting works in Hong Kong, Spain, India, Panama, Mexico, Dominican Republic and Canada. Nationally Peña’s works have been presented by DanseDanse, Attakalari India Biennale, Arsenal Art Contemporain, Festival Quartiers Danses, Maison de la Culture Maisonneuve, Musee des Beaux Arts, Canadian Center for Architecture, Hong Kong International Choreography Festival, Festival International de Dansa de la Cuidad de Mexico, AADK Spain, IONION Arts Center Greece, Laval Symphony Orchestra and SpringBoard, amongst others. Peña has been highlighted with numerous awards for her conceptual and highly rigorous creations, recently including the 2018 Banff Arts Center's Clifford E. Lee Canadian Choreography award and the 2018 Hong Kong International Choreography Award.