COASTAL CURRENTS 2024 -25

VARIOUS ARTISTS

May 23rd and 24th, 8:00 PM
Sir James Dunn Theatre
General Seating – $65.00 Dance Advocate; $45.00 Adults; $35.00 Seniors; $20.00 Students / Arts Worker; Group Discounts Available
Run Time – 85 min
Content Warning: Explicit Language, Loud/Harsh Music & Sound

Live Art Dance and Kinetic are thrilled to co-present Coastal Currents for a 3rd year! Featuring the work of choreographers who live and work in our region, Coastal Currents shares the breadth of incredible choreographic skill that we have right here in Atlantic Canada.

FEATURED WORKS

AN ANXIOUS AGENDA
CHOREOGRAPHER – Olivia MacLean

An Anxious Agenda is a 30-minute contemporary dance work that combines hip-hop dance, music, and DJ arts to explore the complexities of her disability, Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD). MacLean uses hip-hop culture as a backdrop to narrate her experiences with SPD, which have shaped her life since her teenage years… LEARN MORE

NOTHING DOING
CHOREOGRAPHER – Sam Penner

Nothing Doing exposes the tension between the instinctual nature and needs of the human animal, within the human-designed social structures that shape our everyday lives… LEARN MORE

OF THE EARTH; PROPELLING FORWARD
CHOREOGRAPHER – Hilary Knee

“Of The Earth; Propelling Forward” takes the audience through the seasons as we experience them in my home province, the island of Ktaqmkuk (Newfoundland and Labrador)... LEARN MORE

TRIPTYCH
CHOREOGRAPHERS – Michèle King, Meghan Gilhespy, MacKenzie Greenwell

Triptych is where our individual backgrounds throw a lively party, dancing together in three structured and improvisational conversations. It’s a collaborative playground where each of us adds our own twist, crafting a vibrant symphony of shared ideas... LEARN MORE

WHAT SHE HOLDS
CHOREOGRAPHER – Kate Holden

What She Holds gently explores my experiences and sensation of mothering young children: love, isolation, fear, brain fog, deep connection and deep fatigue, a shifting sense of self, an elastic sense of time, a desire for space... LEARN MORE

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