GRAVITY OF CENTER
Choreography: Victor Quijada
Year of production: 2011
Original cast: Emmanuelle Lê Phan, Elon Höglund, Victor Quijada, Anne Plamondon, Daniel Mayo
Artistic coordination: Rion Taylor
Performers’ representation: Jessica Muszynski, Emma-Lynn Mackay-Ronacher
Lighting Design: Yan Lee Chan
Music Composition: Jasper Gahunia
Costume Design: Julie Charland
Executive Director: Fannie Bellefeuille
Production and Tour Director: Diana Catalina Cárdenas
Communications Director: Salomé Boniface
Photo © Michael Slobodian
In Gravity of Center, Quijada’s raw movement conveys the conflicting dynamics between individuals in a group: their independence is obvious and problems are inevitable.
Five dancers, who might represent a family, a nomadic tribe, or an entire people, jostle each other, fight, and struggle to survive, yet with a breathtaking fluidity of movement. Quijada has again called upon faithful collaborators Yan Lee Chan, who sculpts the space with light, and Jasper Gahunia, who creates the audio equivalent of Quijada’s aesthetic.
The premiere of Gravity of Center took place in April 2011 at the Cinquième Salle of Place des Arts, in Montreal.
Coproduced by RUBBERBAND and Société de la Place des Arts de Montréal.
With the support of Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique, Festival International DansEncore, the Conseil des arts de Montréal, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and the Canada Council for the Arts.