The Pendulum Project is Mascall Dance's latest surprise adventure into performance.
Characteristically finding unexpected ways to show us dance, from Sept 12-24 the Pendulum gallery on Georgia will house an unusual exhibition where the passers by will wander through a forest of costumes with MP3 players listening to stories that tell the biography not of a dance, not of a choreographer but of a costume.Here the live performance is the tour lead by descriptions from performers of their memories of the dance; both its creation and performances.Some of the costumes have been danced inhundreds of times. That is a lot of history. Two remarkable artists from theatre are making the exhibition come alive. Catherine Hahn has designed mannequins from pieces of cardboard and storyteller daughter Riel Hahn has whimsically taken anecdotes from behind the scenes on a flight of fancy.
Riel explains” it all centres around Vancouver being a place for rogues in all arts forms, where new ideas are born from a desire to break old molds…”
Audiences are used to MascallDance renovating their perceptions of how they see and think aboutdance and REMNANTS OF MEMORY is no exception. As she slashes away at the cardboard Catherine Hahn explains that in her
career she has always found new ways to use materials but that cardboard now aint what it used to be. “The fibres are now so ground the essential structure of cardboard has changed.”
The gallery at 855 Georgia St in the atrium of the Hong Kong Bank is open
Mon-Saturday 10-6pm.
Mascall’s newest solo, The Outliner- for brilliant dancer, Jung Ah Chung is inspired by the costume Hahn has designed for the exhibition. The Korean/Canadian dancer is the recent recipient of a prize that sent her to collaborate with artists in Korea. At rehearsals open to the public during the office tower’s lunch hour, Monday-thursday 130am-1pm sept 12-15 munching audience members will have a rare chance to glimpse choreographerJennifer Mascall at work with JungAh and composer David Mesiha.
The solo will premiere at a special celebration of the exhibition at 7pm Thursday Sept 15. Admission is free for the exhibition and $10.00 for the opening, which will include a glass of wine and the catalogue of the stories of REMNANTS a sampling of biographies of some of the cast who inhabited the costumes.