A dance of food, love, loss
Wed, September 10 2008
Lee Su-Feh, a dancer, choreographer, teacher and artistic director of the group battery opera, uses the singularity of her own body and makes connections from bone and tissue to memory, dreams and desires. With fine precision and startling intimacy, Lee carves the spaces in and around the body, uncovering recipes and stories along the way, offering up a view of a life shaped and affected by food, love and loss.
The Whole Beast had its world premiere in March at the Festival Les Antipodes in Brest, France. Described as “sexy, propulsive, deeply metaphorical”, battery opera’s award-winning work interrogates the contemporary body as a site of intersecting and displaced histories and habits. Underlying the practice of battery opera is a dynamic dialogue and mutual attraction between opposing tensions, an exchange that is sensitive to the nuances of power and influence in the socio-political history we have inherited.
Come experience battery opera, where forms and traditions meet, merge and collide to celebrate the power and fragility of a human body that breathes, speaks, sings, thinks, moves and dances.
The Scotiabank Dance Centre is at 677 Davie St. Shows start at 8 p.m. Tickets are $26 for adults, and $18 for students, seniors, and battery opera Dance Centre members. Tickets available at www.ticketstonight.ca or by phone at 604.684.2787.
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