Check out the Georgia Straight’s review of Strathcona High Class of ‘56, performed August 6th & 7th at Dances for a Small Stage 21.

http://www.straight.com/article-246596/dances-small-stage-21-definitely-most-bizarre-yet

“Former Torontonian and current Vancouverite Serge Bennathan’s Slam2 is his take on the biblical Prodigal Son. Vanessa Goodman, Jane Osborne and Leigha Wald each take turns narrating the story into a dangling microphone on an empty stage. To [Bertrand Chénier]’s menacing soundscape, the three dancers execute Bennathan’s bruising trademark athleticism. It is a maelstrom of emotions and these young dancers look very strong in the telling.”

PAULA CITRON, The Globe and Mail, July 18/09
read the full review

The Contingency Plan is very excited to be performing Strathcona High Class of ‘56 at MovEnt’s Dances For a Small Stage XXI, August 6th & 7th. Please join us for a humorous work that transports you to a quirky 1950’s prom.

Dances For a Small Stage XXI
When: August 6th & 7th, 2009
Where: The Legion on The Drive
2205 Commercial Drive (at East 6th Ave, second floor)
Doors at 7pm, Show at 8pm
Tickets $15, cash only at the door
Licensed venue, admittance is 19+

For More info on MovEnt please visit: www.movent.ca

Please join The Contingency Plan at the Firehall Arts Centre for the Vancouver premiere of choreographer Serge Bennathan’s trio SLAM2 as part of the Dancing on the Edge Festival. This piece also features the work of composer Bertrand Chénier, costume designer Linda Chow and lighting designer James Proudfoot.

Dancing on the Edge: Edge Two
Firehall Arts Centre, 280 East Cordova Street

July 14th at 8pm
July 15th at 9pm

The Edge Two program includes:
Serge Bennathan / performed by The Contingency Plan
Lisa Hostman / performed by Vanessa Goodman & Amy Tao
Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg / performed by Tara Cheyenne Performance
Meredith Kalaman / performed by Meredith Kalaman & Amanda Sheather

For more info on Edge Two:
http://www.dancingontheedge.org/edge2.php

Tickets are available at the Firehall Box Office, 604-689-0926, or online at:
www.firehallartscentre.ca

SLAM2 was made possible with the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

http://www.canadacouncil.ca/

One by one we are heading up to Whitehorse this week to host a workshop/audition for local dancers, create a new work on those selected and perform the commissions from Serge Bennathan - trio, Justine A. Chambers - duet and Rob Kitsos - solo, in the show “Local & Abroad”, presented by the Society of Yukon Independent Dance Artists. The show is June 12th & 13th, 8pm @ The Old Fire Hall. Visit SYIDA’s website for more details:

http://www.societyofyukondanceartists.net/

On May 22nd at 9:25pm & May 23rd at 7:45pm The Contingency Plan will be performing at BC Buds: A Spring Arts Fair. Please join us as we perform, Strathcona High Class of ‘56 - Spring Prom …a humorous work that transports you to a quirky 1950’s prom.

Created & Performed by: Vanessa Goodman, Jane Osborne & Leigha Wald
With special guest: Kimberly Stevenson

When: May 22nd at 9:25pm & May 23rd at 7:45pm
Where: Firehall Arts Centre - 280 E Cordova St, Vancouver

For more information on BC Buds: A Spring Arts Fair

www.firehallartscentre.ca
(604) 689-0926

I will be performing an excerpt of ‘WAKE’ with choreography by Rob Kitsos on Sunday May 31st, 8pm at the Norman Rothstein Theatre. Tickets are $16/$12 students&seniors. For tickets call: 604.684.2787 or www.ticketstonight.ca

The full-length is to premiere in Sept 2009 at the Scotiabank Dance Centre.

More info on the show:

Join the outstanding musicians of Standing Wave - as well as several Dance Centre members - for Dance : Music, curated by accomplished composer Arne Eigenfeldt. This will be an exciting and diverse programme of music for dance, featuring Eigenfeldt’s Les Yeux Fermes with a remount of Serge Bennathan’s choreography for dancer Katherine Labelle. The evening will journey to John Cage’s Bacchanale with new choreography and performance by Rob Kitsos and to re-orchestration/arrangement of dance music of the 1950’s by composer Cam Wilson, as well as that of the Renaissance by composer Rodney Sharman. The programme culminates with the premiere of Eigenfeldt’s new work, The Title of Your Book for Standing Wave and two dancers. Tickets available at www.ticketstonight.com

I will be performing in ‘TINIKLING (Bamboo Dance)’ - A deconstruction and experimentation of a world renowned dance of the Philippines initiated by contemporary dance artist Alvin Erasga Tolentino in association with Kababayang Pilipino dance troupe of BC and director Randy Romero. 

Sunday May 24th - 3pm @ The Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie Street, Vancouver, BC. Reception with Filipino food to follow.

$20 tickets at the door/ reservations (604) 650-7276 (Kababayang Pilipino) or info@kababayangpilipino.org/

For more information on the show and the other pieces visit:

http://kababayangpilipino.org and/or www.companyerasgadance.ca

The Contingency Plan invites you to see a newly commissioned trio by internationally renowned choreographer Serge Bennathan. On April 17th at 11:00am at the Scotiabank Dance Centre we will be having a free studio showing of this new work and would love for you to join us. After the showing there will be an audience discussion.

This commission was made possible with the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

When: April 17th @ 11:00am
Where: 677 Davie Street
The Scotiabank Dance Centre
Third Floor
Jarislowsky Studio

With a great many thanks to SYIDA (Society of Yukon Independent Dance Artists), TCP will be traveling to Whitehorse this June to perform the three commissions we have slowly been amassing- Leigha’s solo by Rob Kitsos (funded by a Yukon Advanced Artist Award), a duet for Vanessa and I by Justine Chambers, and our trio (generously funded by the Canada Council for the Arts) by Serge Bennathan.

We will be performing alongside Yukon artists and SYIDA co-founders Jude Wong and Andrea Simpson-Folwer, who will be presenting their own choreography. In addition we will be hosting a workshop and Youth Creation Residency for pre-professional dance students. Six participants will be selected from the workshop to participate in the creation residency and ultimately perform in choreography by TCP in the final production.

Performances will be June 12th and 13th at The Old Fire Hall in Whitehorse, Yukon.