Upcoming: Ephemeral Artifacts with Travis Knights
Ephemeral Artifacts: Travis Knights
in association with Theatre Passe Muraille
June 24, 25, 26
9:30pm–11pm (looping installation)
This June, we are excited to announce a new iteration of Ephemeral Artifacts with Travis Knights.
Ephemeral Artifacts is a repertoire production of ĀNANDAṀ, originally created in 2017, existing in multiple variations with diverse casts of artists. At its heart, it examines the dancing body as a container of embodied knowledge; a site of transmission over time. Confronting colloquial notions that dance is inherently ephemeral, this work examines the processes that give it tangibility; time, practice, attention.
This edition features tap artist Travis Knights in a solo symphony of dance, sonics, video and light. It offers the body as a paradoxical site where the convergence of history and future possibilities are articulated through its contemporary presence.
Co-Choreographer, Director, Dramaturge
Brandy Leary
Co-Choreographer, Composer, Performer, Sound Design
Travis Knights
Lighting Design
Siobhán Sleath
Sculpture
Nithya Garg
Sculpture Assistant
Harikishan S Nair
Videographer, Editor
Robert Kingsbury
Lead Video Support
Gabriel Cropley
Image Dramaturge
Justin Levesque
Artistic Producer, ĀNANDAṀ
Briana Brown
Photo by Eamon Mac Mahon
Honoring lineage, re-membering the bodies and communities that have shaped the DaNcE over time through oral tradition, context, form and relationship, this work asks “whose shoulders are you standing on?” (Ethel Bruneau) -Brandy Leary
This iteration is not a pivot or a consolation. This is a richly collaborative experience that grounds us in the knowledge that we are here together. Even though it can feel like a snap in the rhythm of time, we take up the responsibility to pass along the unsayable treasures that engage directly with our existence, our practice and our relationship to each other. -Travis Knights
“...the exhibition importantly reified discourse about the marginalized “object” of dance-performance and the “othered” body as a critical site for the transmission of knowledge through form, movement, presence and gesture.” -Coman Poon, C Magazine 2018