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announcing…

Today I am writing with exciting news indeed: in a month’s time, my next original piece of theatre and very first attempt at writing, producing and performing a one-person show, totem., will be premiering at the Hamilton Fringe! For its tenth season, the Hamilton Fringe has decided to expand into a few art galleries across the city, and I’m proud to have totem. be part of this inaugural addition to an already bustling festival.

This is my first full piece of new writing in a little over a year. It began its life as the product of an exercise in Steady State Theatre’s bi-weekly writer’s circle and an excerpt from it made its premiere at Theatre Caravel’s Sea Change. I’ve now teamed up with friend and colleague Kallee Lins, a director / dancer / academic, to take my words from page to mind and body. I’m really curious to see how it goes!

I’ve attached the press release below so you can learn a bit more about it. And check back often for updates!

Cheers!

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For Immediate Release: June 17^th, 2013

Media Contact: Andrew Gaboury

Phone: 647-404-2994

https://afieldofcrowns.wordpress.com

a field of crowns debuts its premier production, “totem.” at the 2013 Hamilton Fringe Festival’s Gallery Mini-Series

a field of crowns is excited to bring its debut performance to the Hamilton Fringe Festival’s inaugural Gallery Mini-Series. totem. draws inspiration from the tempestuous active-narration inherent in stream-of-conscious writing, as well as the lyricality of spoken-word poetry. In the endeavor of theatricality, writer/performer Andrew Gaboury and director Kallee Lins have embraced physical theatre and dance to help punctuate the world of the piece and emotional journey therein.

a field of crowns is the brand of Toronto-based theatre artist Andrew Gaboury. totem. marks the first step of taking a field of crowns from a screen-name and website to a producing theatre company. totem. is a collaboration between performer/playwright Andrew Gaboury (who recently appeared as Giles in The Mousetrap at the Lower Ossington Theatre, and will appear as Borachio in Much Ado About Nothing at the 2013 Toronto Fringe) and director Kallee Lins (who will be pursuing her PhD on “the body in performance as a means of theorizing the socio-political world” this fall at York University). Andrew and Kallee are artists interested in working in cross-disciplinary platforms; Andrew working mainly in lyrical wordplay and physical movement and Kallee focused on the possibilities of performance art and dance. Together, they are both excited by the animation of space and presenting performance in non-traditional venues.

totem. is an exploration of one man’s emotional, mental landscape as he confronts his crumbling relationship and is presented with a surreal manifestation of his ideals. It plays at the James North Studio Gallery from July 19^th– 21^st.

totem.

at the Hamilton Fringe Festival Gallery Mini-Series

Written and Performed by Andrew Gaboury

Directed by Kallee Lins

James North Studio – 328 James Street North, Hamilton ON

Friday, July 19^th – 7:30pm

Friday, July 19^th – 9:00pm

Saturday, July 20^th – 4:30pm

Saturday, July 20^th – 7:45pm

Saturday, July 20^th – 9:15pm

Sunday, July 21^st – 3:45pm

Sunday, July 21^st – 5:15pm

Sunday, July 21^st – 8:30pm

Tickets: $8.00 (with a $4.00 Fringe Backer button required)

For Advance Online Tickets: www.hamiltonfringe.ca/tickets

Approximately 20 minutes

LATECOMERS WILL NOT BE ADMITTED

dossier: Kate Nankervis for SHE WAS

Today marks a little bit of history on this blog o’ mine. With Kate’s dossier, this marks the first time a “mostly” dance piece is featured!

Kate and I just met last week, at what was the beginning of an exciting new opportunity for the both of us plus four others (details are quite secretive right now), and I couldn’t be more excited to showcase this event of hers on my blog. Reading about it makes me sad I won’t be able to see it as I’ll be performing at the same time. If you’ve never checked out a dance show, this one sounds like a great place to start!

Alrighty, without further ado, here’s dossier #12:

Who are we talking with?

Kate Nankervis, a Toronto-based performer and choreographer.

What is your earliest memory of needing, or wanting to dance?

Not sure if it is my earliest memory, but I definitely remember dancing all the time in grocery stores and stores like Sears, because the floors were nice and slippery so I could turn easily. I also remember playing t-ball and always going to out field and just dancing not really paying attention to game- I had a really good cartwheel after that season.

Why do you do what you do?

Wow, good question…! I have almost always danced; it has really become part of my everyday life. Creating dances and producing has been a way that I can further explore my own interests in the world and the people around me. When I consider why I work the way I do it is also really influenced by the people involved. I am surrounded by wicked people, artists and collaborators that really make the all the parts come together and keep me moving forward.

Why “she was”?

‘she was’ is a double bill show of 2 dance works. My work, ‘only place’ is a solo show about a woman left behind. Simon Renaud who is my partner in crime, is making ‘les reines orphelines’, with dancers Joanie Audet and Jasmine Inns. The evening is a collaborative arts event with two dance works, live music, a pop-up lounge featuring work from visual artist Sarah Smith and live music. We are really putting together a whole evening out for audience to come together and experience independent contemporary art.

What can an audience expect from “she was”?

It is an evening out with friends and family to meet artists and encounter new work by mainly emerging artists. We are shining a light on our work and the work of the artists in the city who are inspiring to me and Simon. They can expect to be entertained, moved and maybe provoked, then to move into a lounge with awesome live music and artwork and a bar, of course.

What is your favourite memory from a past dance show?

I remember this performance of a Calgary artist, Helen Husak. she was performing at Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival. She made this emotional and physical perfomance to Timbre Timbre. It was short and it was a mixed program but I remember crying for most of the solo and not knowing why just that I was affected by this work.

Describe “she was” in three adjectives or a phrase.

classy, provacative, ambitious.

Do you have anything you want to share with us? A story? A photo? A song? A video?

she was
choreography by Kate Nankervis and Simon Renaud
May 16- 18, 2013 8pm
The Citadel, Toronto
For tickets email: shewasperformance@gmail.com

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Kate has provided us with the press and media release. This event sounds amazing folks. Check it out!

Media Release SHE WAS (dance, music, art) May 16-18, 2013 The Citadel, TO