Peek Show Artists

peek show 12:
Saturday, June 11, 2022
ARTIST LINE UP

Holly M. Brinkman - Thank You - a feminist rage poem

In a black space are two chairs. One dancer is on the ground with their leg outstretched touching one of the chairs and their arms behind them. The other dancer is balancing on the seat of the chair on their hands with one leg tucked up in the air.

CONTENT WARNING: Nudity. Discussion of sex, beauty standards, diet culture, misogyny

Holly stands on stage while a pre-recorded voice over plays, "Thank-You: A feminist rage poem." Holly cuts her clothes off of herself with bandage scissors. Holly stands on stage mostly naked as the poem finishes.

ARTIST PROFILE:
Holly Brinkman is a storyteller, producer, physical comedian and burlesque performer living and creating on Lekwungen territory. Her work is deeply personal and influenced by societal pressures to look, talk, move and be a specific way as a woman in the world. She is a queer woman with hetero-passing white cis privilege.

ARTIST:
Holly M. Brinkman (she/her) performer/creator

LINKS
IG @hollymaryan
FB Holly Brinkman

Allison Brooks - Unsticking

Through a window in a dark room there is a night sky filled with lots of stars and purple and blue streaks. There is a dark shadow of a person in the window.

Through movement I experiment with containment and rapture. This piece was made possible thanks to Carol Mendes/Amok Project.

ARTIST PROFILE:
Contemporary dance artist Allison Audrey Brooks is a white settler that has spent her life in Western Canada in various unceded First Nations territories and Treaty 1 territory. Since 2017 Allison has been working professionally throughout Canada and abroad. Since moving too Vancouver she has had the pleasure of working with local dance companies. Previously based in Winnipeg Allison is excited to be back to the BC dance community.

ARTISTS:
Allison Brooks (she/her) choreographer/dancer
Carol Mendes (she/her) outside eye

LINKS:
IG @brooksalli

Lee Ingram - frozen cradlE

The shadow of a person holding a telescope is in the forefront, with a background of blobs in different shades of blue and green and shadows of tall skinny trees.

frozen cradle is an experimental and multi-disciplinary performance piece that incorporates poetry, dance, and layered sounds. It pays homage to a matriarchal presence in the absence of fatherhood, and deviates from an assumed narrative to give strength to the weight of that responsibility.

ARTIST PROFILE:
Lee Ingram (she/they) is a dancer, musician, and poet living and creating on the ancestral lands of the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations. As a primarily self-taught and improvised dancer, Lee is engaged in collaborative and experimental work that grants the body maximum freedom to translate mental and emotional landscapes into physical expressions. Lee is curious about the ways in which the improvised body can contradict expectations of identity(/ies), dance, and performance.

ARTISTS:
Lee Ingram (she/they) choreographer, performer, writer, and voice
Owen fairbairn (he/they) recording and sound design

Kiera Shaw - Shedding (working title)

This collage of pictures features four dancers; one dancer is upside down with their arms and legs extended upwards. One dancer is kneeling down and touching the ground. One dancer is upside down and doing an angular pose with their knee up. One dancer is standing and concaving their chest while clasping their hands. Their backgrounds of each picture are green and yellow, grey and blue, deep red and light brown. Two of the dancers wear stripes.

CONTENT WARNING: TBD

Shedding is a contemporary dance movement score that currently exists as a solo. Inspired by the feeling of letting go, Shedding is a dynamic observation of what can be experienced when one let’s go. What becomes available for the body? What movement can be created?

ARTIST PROFILE:
Kiera Shaw is a moving, thinking dance artist. She holds a BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from York University, and often wears many different hats as a dancer, choreographer, lighting designer, stage manager, and educator. A lifelong learner and traveller, she has sought to expand her training through programs including: Batsheva’s Gaga Intensives (Tel Aviv), and ImPulsTanz International Dance Festival (Vienna). Currently Kiera is based in Victoria while virtually connecting to the dance communities in Toronto and Tel Aviv.

ARTIST:
Kiera Shaw (she/her) Choreographer & Dancer

LINKS:
IG @kieravshaw

Grace-Ann Wynter - Confront, or ConforM

A pullover knit sweater is laid out on the ground with the left arm extended to the side. There is an effect on the image that makes the sweater and the background look distorted in various shades of orange and purple.

This contemporary dance piece is based on personal confrontations with the many ways society places expectations & preconceived notations on my being- specifically as a person of color & as a woman. It explores both the moments of confrontation with these labels & expectations as well as the moments of surrender to the path of least resistance.

ARTIST PROFILE:
I have been doing contemporary dance for ~11 years and have participated in about 10 year-end productions in that time. I have had the pleasure of performing in a piece at a Broken-Rhythms Dance company, Lash Bash Fundraiser in August 2017. Also in 2017, I performed multiple dance pieces in a 3 show production called ‘The Gathering’ along side fellow dancers, actors, and musicians. More recently, I have been exploring improv dance which is where this piece was borne.

ARTIST:
Grace-Ann Wynter performer

Links
IG @g_wynter

In-person on JUNE 11TH at 7:30pm