A rhythmic ensemble, a conjoined globular form; each body a cog in a machine unaware of their dependence on one another. They’ve moved this way for years; the light is just now illuminating this static machine. One cog breaks out, shattering the cluster. In its ruin, each piece gains sentience.
in the wake of a sleeping machine is a new dance work in its research and creation phase, choreographed by Shion Skye Carter in collaboration with 9 dance artists. The project researches how lighting design and illuminating objects architect, refract, and transform space while movement patterns and tableaus are generated by an ensemble of bodies in relationship with one another.
Shion Skye Carter is a dance artist from Gifu, Japan, based in so-called Vancouver, Canada. Through choreography hybridized with heritage art forms such as Japanese calligraphy that interact with digital and sculptural objects, Shion’s work looks inward to the facets of their intersectional identity as a lens to process the external world. Recent presentations of their performances and dance films include The Dance Centre (Vancouver), Tangente (Montréal), Kinetic Studio (Halifax), Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), CAPSULE by the National Arts Centre (Ottawa/online), and International Portrait Film Festival (Bulgaria), among others.
