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THEFROG AND THEPRINCESS

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CHOREOGRAPHED
BY SHANNON MORENO, MELANIEPHILLIPS

& FARLEYJOHANSSON
ATMASPHERE
(VANCOUVER)
WORLDPREMIERE

A narrative fantasy performance involving two puppets, a puppeteer and three
musicians. The two puppets are "danced" by the whims of the puppeteer, who
sits high in the trees to manipulate the dancers. This humorous dance theatre
piece will excite audiences of all ages and will be supported by three musicians
who are integral to the creation of the enchanted forest fantasy.

CHOREOGRAPHERS/
PERFORMERS
Shannon Moreno was born in Vancouver and studied at the Royal Winnipeg
Ballet and Rudra Bejart Ballet where she acquired the technical classical/modern
training, and the opportunity to choreograph, stage and produce her own works
in a professional atmosphere. Upon graduation, she traveled to Europe where
she worked, as a professional dancer, with the Goteborg Operan in Sweden
under the direction of Robert North, Maurice Bejart at Rudra Bejart Ballet in
Lausanne, Switzerland and Deutsche Oper Am Rhein in Dusseldorf, Germany,
under the direction of Youri Vamos. She worked closely with international
choreographers such as Christopher Bruce, Mats Ek, Richard Wherlock, Judith
Marcuse of DanceArts and Helen Walkley. She is presently a director of
ATMASPHERE ARTS SOCIETY and produced, choreographed and perFormed
in PRESS PLAY III and a multi-disciplinary production called ANU I & II.She
has adjudicated the dance section of the BC Festival of the Arts and the
Performing Arts Festival in Quesnel, Naniamo and Courtney. She has taught
and choreographed for dance schools in BC, Germany and England.

Melanie Phillips was raised in Ontario and came to Vancouver to study at
Simon Fraser University where she completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts in
Dance. At SFU, she received intense training in movement, choreography,
physical theatre and improvisation. She has worked alongside renowned
choreographers such as Serge Bennathan, Cornelius Fischer-Credo, Judith Garay,
Peter Bingham, Helen Walkley, Andrew Harwood and Marc Boivin. She is
actively involved as a choreographer and performer in XII Minutes Max, PRESS
PLAY II & III, and Dances for a Small Stage. She has produced, created and
performed her own yideo work call EUPHORIA. Melanie traveled to India
where she received her certificate in Yogic Studies and performed in the Sita
Kalyanam and Bihar Yoga Bharati Festival. As a dance and yoga instructor, she
guides and teaches numerous students m Vancouver.

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Farley Johansson is a dancer and creator from Vancouver. He studied Classical
and Contemporary Ballet, and Modern Dance at the New Zealand School of
Dance and performed professionallywith the Royal New Zealand Ballet. He now
resides in Vancouver working as an independent performer, teacher and rehearsal
director. Most recently, he has worked with The Holy Body Tattoo in the
ongoing creation process of Monumental. He is the co-creator of the Playroom.

Shannon, Melanie and Farley have formed a non-profit company called
ATMASPHERE to advance, promote and develop the live post-modern artistic
disciplines such as music, dance, visual art, spoken word, song and multimedia by
the way of theatrical experience of inter-disciplined collaboration.
ATMASPHERE recently produced and performed a multi-disciplinary production
called ANU at the Roundhouse in 2002 and PRESS PLAY III last month. They
reside in Vancouver to pursue the dance/theatre/film industry as performers,
choreographers, teachers and producers with the desire to create and expose their
passion, knowledge and experiences to Canadian audiences.
MUSICIANS

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Luke MacKay (Percussion)
Sarah Shugarrnan (Violin)
Ben Rogalsky (AccordianI Banjo)

COSTUMEDESIGN

Tara Arnst

RIGGER& APPARTUS
DESIGN

Michael Flynn

FALLING DOWN SOUND
CHOREOGRAPHED
BYAYELEN
LIBERONA
WESTERNCANADIANPREMIERE

FallingDownSound,is a piece inspired by the magic of creation, drawing attention
to the details of life, the fabric of our existence.
It is about surrendering to the sensations of sound, sight and gravity. One hears
the resonating sound of strings echoing through the park. Two creatures are
suspended from the branch of a tree by fabric that breathes like a liquid sculpture.
The creatures awaken responding to the song of the strings and explore the
sensation of movement. The relationship evolves between the creatures as they
discover their fears and test their limits. They communicate through the fabric
that connects them, the vibrations that resonates within them and the mysterious
sounds that seduce them. Tugging, pulling, twisting and turning, the creatures
tangle and untangle as they fall through their journey through the fabric of sound
and surrendering to the mysteries of life.

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Born in Toronto, Canada to Chilean parents, Ayelen Liberona has lived and
learned in Canada, Cuba, Brazil, the United States and Europe. In 1999, Ayelen
completed her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto,
specializing in anthropology of dance and ritual. Ayelen has grown through
experiences with choreographers such as Luis Falco, Juan Antonio and Ayesha
Mansur and with companies Ballet Jorgen, TurboB6nz Dance, CORE
Movement and Bale Folklorico da Bahia. She was co-founder of the Torontobased collective of artists named Womb Dance where she shared the roles of
creative director, choreographer and dancer. Ayelen has also contributed her
skills and her spirit to numerous film and video projects aired worldwide and she
has been the recipient of several grants from organizations such as the Laidlaw
Foundation and BRAVO! Arts Channel. She is currently in collaboration with
cellist Rubin Kodheli creating and performing refined and refreshing fusions of
styles and ideas. Ayelen's choreography, described as Lyrical Expressionism, has
premiered in theatres and festivals across North America. She also performs and
tours with the Wes Veldink Movement and Dance Anonymous.
CREATURE

Ayelen Liberona
Cheryl Ockrant

FROM THEEDGEOF THEBENCH
CHOREOGRAPHEDBY ROBERTO
CAMPANELLA
(TORONTO)
WESTERN
CANADIAN PREMIERE

CHOREOGRAPHER

Roberto Campanella received his dance training in Rome, Italy. In 1985 he
joined the Compagnia ltaliana di Danza Contemporanea and later the prestigious
Aterballetto under the direction of Amedeo Amodio. In 1993, he joined the
National Ballet of Canada where he was soon promoted to Soloist and cast in
many classical and contemporary roles, in works by Cranko, Balanchine, Kylian
and Tetley amongst others. Campanella made his choreographic debut at the
National Ballet's 1995 Choreographic Workshop which received critical acclaim.
In 2001, Roberto was nominated for the Bonnie Bird Choreography Award in
London. In a production of Michael Ondaatje's poem, the Nine Sentiments,
Roberto Campanella and Robert Glumbek joined to choreograph benefit
performances for cancer, and world literacy. Recent commissions include his
third work for BalletJorgen and for four-time world champion figure skater Kurt
Browning.

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PERFORMERS Christopher Body, Sylvie Bouchard, Ed Hanley

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Ed Hanley

Thanks to Maya Papaya

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DANCING ON THEEDGEFESTIVAL
2003
Producer ... DONNA SPENCER
Technical/Lighting Director ... JAMESPROUDFOOT
Assistant to the Producer I Artist Liaison ... MICHAELTOPPINGS
Communications & Marketing ...JOAN WELLWOOD
Communications ... RESHAADALI
Graphic Design ... JAMESA. GLEN

LIZBACA, JOSEFCHUNG, DAELIK,DAVID JOHN, KERRENEJOHN,
KIERANMOORE, KEN RECKAHN,BEVERLYWALKER

proudly presents

Board of Directors
KIM BARSANTI,JENNIFERDUGGAN, ANDREA GUNNLAUGSON,

Dancing on the Edge Festival also gratefully acknowledges the generous support
of du Maurier Arts, media sponsor The Georgia Straight and Canadian Springs
for their contribution.

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JULY 3 -13, 2003
PRODUCER

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FESTIVAL OF LIFE

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SUNDAY, JULY 6, 2003

4 PM

SCOTIABANK DANCE CENTRE

COORDINATED BY
SYLVIE BOUCHARD & DAVID DANZON

CORPUS

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CHOREOGRAPHEDBYSYLVIE
BOUCHARD&

WESTERN
CANADIAN PREMIERE

MARYMONTICA-POOLE,DONNA SPENCER,Jo\NNE TELFER,HAYDENTHOMAS

The Dancing on the Edge Festival is made possible through the generous support
of the Government of Canada through the Ministry of Canadian Heritage, the
Canada Council for the Arts Dance Section, the BC Arts Council and the City
of Vancouver.

DUSKDANCES

DAVID DANZON
CORPUS(TORONTO)

STANLEY
PARK

Pitsk Dances Technical Crew
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CHOREOGRAPHERS/DIRECTORS/ DESIGNERS

Sylvie Bouchard is co-artistic director of CORPUS with
David Danzon.
She has performed nationally and
internationally
with Kaeja d'Dance,
Winnipeg's
Contemporary Dancers, Dancemakers, Toronto Dance
Theatre, the Houston Grand Opera and the Vancouver
Opera.
She has worked with many independent
choreographers including Roger Sinha, Katherine Labelle,
Karen Kaeja, Roberto Campanella, Jenn Goodwin and
Learie McNicolls. Ms. Bouchard won a Dora Mavor
Moore Award nomination for best performance for
Cassiopeia (choreographers:
:'eggy Baker,
Serge
Bennathan,
Roger Sinha and Karen Kaeja).
Ms
Bouchard's choreography has been seen in Toronto in
Dusk Dances, Human Lingo series, Spring Rites, Older
and Reckless, Dances for a Small Stage and at the du
Maurier theatre; in Montreal at Tangente; and in
Winnipeg in a co-creation for Winnipeg's Contemporary
Dancers. Since forming CORPUS in 1997, Ms. Bouchard
has co-created eight works with David Danzon and
together they produce and curate Dusk Dances, an
annual site-specific dance event in Toronto, Ottawa and
Vancouver.

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Born in France, David Danzon graduated from the York University Acting
program in 1992 and is currently co-Artistic Director of CORPUS. In theatre, he
appeared in such diverse roles as: Yepikhodov in The Cherry Orchard (Theatre
Colombus/Canadian Stage); Virgil in Dante's Inferno (Theatre Smith
Gilmour/Factory Theatre); Cleante in Le Malade Imaginaire(Theatre SmithGilmour/TIT), Mereia and Cassius in Caligula (WorldStage), and the father in
Beauty and the Beast 0okerman Theatre) In dance, with artistic partner Sylvie
Bouchard, he has created and performed The BalancingAct, A Flock of Flyers,
Carousel,Rendez-vous,Feet in the Air, Head on the Ground, Bridgeof Sighs,Nuit
blancheand Les moutons. He also performed in Serge Bennathan's Few Thousand
Miles. David has written and starred in two children's TV series for TYO: Les
VoyagesElectoniquesde Numeriqueand Mission:Action(53 episodes). He studied
clown and mask with master teacher Phillipe Gautier, Dean Gilmour and John
Turner, and conducted workshops in these disciplines at Winnipeg's
Contemporary Dancers, Pia Bouman Ballet School, Canadian Children Dance
Theatre and Young Contemporary Dancers of Toronto.
PERFORMERS

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Sylvie Bouchard, Sara Wood, Dean Gilmour, Carla Soto

COSTUMES

Joanne Leblanc

SETCONSTRUCTION

Randy Glynn

PROPS

Tracy Taylor, Amy Cummings

SNEAKER
CHOREOGRAPHED
BY

JENN GOODWIN & SARAHDOUCET{TORONTO)
WESTERN
CANADIAN PREMIERE

Sneakeris a story of two women who after a night out decide they are going to
hitchhike out of town.
CHOREOGRAPHERS/PERFORMERS

Originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Sarah Doucet moved to Winnipeg at the
age of nine where she spent the next 10 years training with the Royal Winnipeg
Ballet. After a near fatal car accident, she moved to Montreal to pursue a career
in modern dance at L'ADMMI and Concordia University. She has since worked
with Tammy Forsythe, Tusket, Jenn Goodwin and Turbo136nz Dance Projects,
and toured internationally for the last four years with Lynda Gaudreau,
Compagnie de Brune and is currently working with The Holy Body Tattoo on
their new creation.

Jenn Goodwin and her theatrical, street-smart style moved back to Toronto in
1997 after spending eight years in Montreal where she received her Bachelor of
Fine Arts in Contemporary Dance at Concordia University. While in Montreal,
Goodwin worked with Tammy Forsythe, Sarah Doucet and Roberta Cooper
among others. Presently, Jenn is Artistic Director, dancer and choreographer
for T urbo136nzDance Projects (TBZ). From theatres to streets, to parks to clubs,
her work has been received enthusiastically by audiences in Toronto, Montreal,
Ottawa, New York City and Amsterdam. In Toronto she has danced with
CORPUS, Hari Krishnan, Zero Gravity Circus, Eryn Dace Trudell, Justine
Chambers and WOMB Dance Company. She created the video FREESTYLE
for Bravo!FACT and Moving Pictures Film Festival and is presently working on
a short documentary about Elisabeth Langley for the National Film Board and
Bravo!FACT. She is also presently one-third of Channel 3, a dance/media
collective with Justine Chambers and Heidi Strauss. TBZ will be going to
Brussels in the fall for residency and performances as part of Festival VOL.

Dan Goldman

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HOW CAN I MISS YOU IF YOU WON 1 TGOAWAY?
CHOREOGRAPHED& DIRECTEDBY

CONRAD ALEXANDROWICZ(VANCOUVER)
WORLD PREMIERE

This duet uses myths from Ovid as its point of departure including those of
Narcissus and Echo, Peleus and The tis, Venus and Adonis and Ariadne and the
Minotaur. The elements of these stories including pursuit, capture, entrapment,
conflict, curse and transformation have been extracted from their contexts and
then recombined to portray the difficulties of a contemporary couple caught in
a dysfunctional relationship.
CHOREOGRAPHER/DIRECTOR

Conrad Alexandrowicz is a director, writer and choreographer and teacher, and
the artistic director of Wild Excursions Performance, which he founded in
Vancouver in 1994. Originally from Toronto, he performed with a number of
Canadian dance companies, principally Dancemakers, which he joined in 1982,
and where he began to produce his own work, much of which featured original
text.

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He left the company in 1987 to choreograph, direct and perform independently.
To date he has created over forty-five dance and physical-theatre works which
have been presented across Canada, in New York City, France and the UK. They
include The Wines of Tuscany, Dance Lttle Lady, Passion: Elysian Fields and
currently in development, The Erotic Curve of the Earth. He recently completed
an MFA in Directing at the University of Alberta and returned to Vancouver to
restart his professional career. As an artist and teacher he continues his
explorations into theatre and dance, and that mysterious territory where they
overlap.
PERFORMERS

As well as having a local history performing with Kokoro Dance and Vancouver
Dance Theatre, Kevin Bergsma has been developing creative works with Thomas
Anfield since the summerof 1999. Productions include: Lacunae, in Press Play III,
Butoh-A-Go-Go@ The Lost Lagoon; Dancing On The Edge Of The Fringe;
Butoh-A-Go-Go @The Michaud; Butoh-A-Go-Go @The Parade Of The Lost
Souls; Pontormo Part I; The Monkey's Mask; Nature Morte; Tofu Tutu Foton
Futon and East. Mr. Bergsma has also worked with the Vancouver Opera
Company (Aida and Daughter Of The Regiment) and has done various projects
with City TV-Vancouver. Film credits include: the principal role of Miss Marilyn
Devine in the independent film The Loop and as a dancer in the feature film Josie
& The Pussycats. In August he will be working in Whitehorse working with Link
Dance Company. Kevin teaches at Harbour Dance Studios.
As a solo dancer/creator, Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg is at the beginning of an
exciting career. She received acclaim for her solos Frame and The Beckoning,
which were presented in Vancouver, Victoria and Montreal. Recently Tara
hammed it up at Dances for a Small Stage with a new solo Go Anyway. She has
also performed her solo a little too far on CBC. Originally from Calgary, Tara
studied theatre at the University of Calgary prior to moving to Vancouver. Since
graduating with a Dance degree from Simon Fraser University in 1994, Tara has
worked as a creator and interpreter in the Vancouver dance and theatre
communities as well as abroad. She has danced for, among others, Chick Snipper,
Cornelius Fischer-Credo, Conrad Alexandrowicz, Lola McLaughlin, Deborah
Dunn and most recently with Joe Ink Qoe Laughlin).
SAXTHERAPIST

Coat Cooke

COSTUMES

Kevin Bergsma