*Left of Push* RELAY

Kait Ramsden

Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh Territory / Vancouver

Do You Love Me? is an interdisciplinary performance that explores the intersection of female desire and its censorship – particularly how the female body and its sexual agency are controlled, fragmented, and repressed by digital and societal forces. Do You Love Me? wonders: which fantasies serve to enliven a sense of self and which dismantle it? Through live video mixing, contemporary dance, datamoshing, poetry, and sound, DYLM interrogates how desire itself becomes a source of censorship, not only through the overt objectification of women in media but also through the insidious ways in which the female form is kept from its wholeness, its full visibility, and autonomy.

@communikait__
kaitramsden.com
Photo © Kait Ramsden


Camille Huang

Tio’tia:ke / Mooniyang / Montréal

Puncture and Pull is an inquiry on contact between the body and the ‘puncture and pull’ of the sewing machine. Objects, sound and dance converge to explore gendered attributions surrounding repetition, touch, machinery and its parts. The performer works with gestures haunted by a physical intimacy and industry. Describing the motion of a sewing needle, “puncture and pull” also has an unlikely convergence with a chewing mechanism of predatory animals. The body becomes charged with pattern, pull, insistence, and a fleshy intertwining with machine histories.

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camillehuangxia.ca
Photo © Hugo St Laurent


Stephanie Cumming & Chris Bullough

Tio’tia:ke / Mooniyang / Montréal & Amiskwaciwâskahikan / Treaty 6

fort. is a meeting of old friends who connected as teenagers over a love of musical theatre in the remoteness of northern Alberta in the early 90’s.  They revisit their past and attempt to process the ambivalence they share about where they grew up and the confrontation that exists with their present realities of living as artists.

@mrs_cools
stephaniecumming.com
Photo © Mike Cherry

@lankythunder
www.jana-chris.com
Photo courtesy of the artist

Credits

Creator/Performer - fort.

Stephanie Cumming

Creator/Performer - fort.

Chris Bullough

Creator/Performer/Co-Composer - Do You Love Me?

Kait Ramsden

Co-Composer - Do You Love Me?

Big Zen

Creator/Performer/Director/Sound Design - Puncture and Pull

Camille Huang

Sound Design - Puncture and Pull

Rodolfo Rueda

Rehearsal Assistant - Puncture and Pull

Camile Bellefleur

Bio

Stephanie Cumming (she/her) is a dancer, choreographer and actress based in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke. Her work over the last twenty years has spanned the mediums of contemporary dance, theatre, film, and visual art. Stephanie was born in Dawson Creek, British Columbia and grew up in Saskatchewan and northern Alberta. Shortly after finishing her dance studies at the University of Calgary in 2000, she relocated to Austria where she became a fixture of the Viennese contemporary dance scene. Stephanie started collaborating with Austrian choreographer Chris Haring in 2003 and in 2005 was a co-founder of the Vienna based dance company Liquid Loft. Their work has been touring internationally ever since. Stephanie is also a long time member of the ensemble of the award winning Vienna based performance company Toxic Dreams. She also works in film, most notably in the lead role of Gustav Deutsch’s Shirley: Vision of Reality.

Chris Bullough (he/him) is a theatre professional, instructor, musician, and community animator based in Edmonton/Amiskwaciwâskahikan on Treaty 6 territory. ​ A graduate of the University of Alberta BFA (Acting) program, he has worked as an actor, creator, producer, and director in Western Canada. ​ Notable acting credits include roles in Love’s Labour’s Lost (Sterling Award), Abraham Lincoln Goes to the Theatre (Betty Mitchell Award nomination), and The Lonesome West (Sterling nomination). ​ He co-founded wishbone theatre, directing acclaimed productions like Waiting for Godot and SHIMMER. ​ Chris holds an MFA in Directing and has written plays such as Apples and Oranges and Penelope vs. ​ The Aliens. ​ Currently, he is working with Sage Seniors Association as a Community Animator, supporting and sharing the gifts/wisdom of isolated older adults, and writing songs and monologues for his new play, Return to The Undiscovered Country.

Kait Ramsden is an interdisciplinary artist and dance educator playing at the intersections of dance, sound, video, and new media. She is of settler descent working and living on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and Sel̓íl̓witulh Nations/Vancouver. Her work is interested in creating empathetic, irreverent, and contemplative spaces that prioritize attention and sensation as a means to connect with ourselves and those around us. Recent work include Do You Love Me? an interdisciplinary performance that uses video, datamoshing, sound, and performance to explore fantasy, censorship, romance, and compulsory heterosexuality. Other recent work includes afterbirth a multidisciplinary dance and theatre performance which looks at the manipulative power of ritual and cult, and goddaughter an experimental pop project where Ramsden can let the pop princes thrive.

Big Zen, aka Jamie Enns, is a Vancouver-based electronic music producer and DJ. Since 2017, he has been active in the community playing shows at DIY venues, hosting events and releasing records. He has released music on some of the most respected underground labels, such as Mood Hut, Planet Euphorique, DustWORLD, Plush Records Inc and Kalihari Oyster Cult. He is a founding member of local collective/label, Cool Underground Music (C.U.M.) and the sole operator of the label, Promise.

Camille Huang is a performer making physical and visual works. They are an asian diasporic settler making works unfolding between the realms of dance, scenography and performance. Guided by attention and curiousity, Camille explores plural making sense of identity, relations and possible futures.They were awarded the Prix du CALQ Work of an Emerging Artist 2024 for their solo “Slug Meal”. Their choreographic works have been presented at SummerWorks Festival, OFFTA, Festival Entractes and Tangente. Camille received their training in contemporary dance and anthropology and now works as a freelance dancer, all the while engaged in the rigor and pleasure of making artistic works.They are a graduate of L’École de Danse Contemporaine de Montréal and have a BA in anthropology from Concordia University. Camille is living in Tiohtiá:ke / Mooniyang / Montréal.

Rodolfo Rueda (he/him) is a multidisciplinary artist developing his craft in music and photography. Born in Lima, Peru and now based in Montreal, Canada; Rodolfo graduated from the Jazz performance program at McGill University. He currently releases music under the alias CIBER1A where he experiments with electronic music, free improv, and Afro-Peruvian rhythms. At 26 years old, Rodolfo is currently working as a photographer, composer/sound designer and session bass player. He likes to take chances in his art in order to discover new passions and talents.

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