Ephemeral Artifacts (Travis Knights)
An architectural installation incorporating 4-channel video, sculpture, sound and light. Adaptable to multiple architectures and is presented as a repeating half-hour loop.
Ephemeral Artifacts (Travis Knights) celebrates the relationship of dancer to dance and dance’s relationship to history. It centres the body as a space of transmission and dance as a defiant act of creating knowledge. Featuring tap artist Travis Knights, this work integrates music, video, sculpture and storytelling.
Year: 2021, 2022
Venue: Theatre Passe Muraille (Torontor), Old Firehall (Whitehorse)
Co-Choreography/Direction/Dramaturgy: Brandy Leary
Co-Choreography Performance/Composition: Travis Knights
LX Design: Siobhan Sleath
Videography/Editing: Robert Kingsbury
Bell Sculpture: Nithya Garg
Sculpture Assistant: Harikishan S Nair
Presenter: Theatre Passe Muraille, Anandam (Toronto), Pivot Festival (Whitehorse)
Photos: Eamon MacMahon, Harikishan S Nair
“ĀNANDAṀ Dancetheatre thrives in creating compelling pieces that explore the ways in which we view architecture, public space, change, and the relationship between audience, performer, and space. Even though the company is known for pushing the boundaries of traditional staged performances, Leary acknowledges that this iteration of the project, presented in association with Theatre Passe Muraille, has brought them to places they would never have considered before.”