All Bodies Dance Project (ABDP) is an inclusive dance company located on unceded Coast Salish Territory (Vancouver, BC). Founded in 2014, ABDP brings together artists with and without disabilities to explore movement as a means of creative expression. The group offers accessible dance classes for adults of all abilities in addition to creating opportunities for diverse artists to practice, research and create innovative, inclusive dance. Through mentorship and training, the company is helping to develop a new and under-represented group of dance-makers, teachers and artistic leaders with a unique set of values and approach to performance making.Gemma Crowe (filmmaker, choreographer), graduated with distinction from the University of Calgary’s Program of Dance and has created work for dance festivals in western Canada while producing three dance films that have been screened internationally. Crowe choreographed evening-length SEASONS: A Magical Musical, which debuted at the Centre in Vancouver for Performing Arts. Training overseas at P.A.R.T.S. Summer School and ImpulsTanz, Crowe has acquired a greater understanding for the context of her work. Gemma Crowe approaches dance as art, as she continues to explore, create and work in the industries of dance and film.
Alex Mah is a composer, musician, and dance artist whose scores use verbal notation to deal with ideas of indeterminacy, performer choices, and the sensing body. He has participated in festivals, workshops, and performed across Canada, Germany, Denmark, and the U.K.. In 2018, he completed a Master of Research Composition under James Saunders at Bath Spa University (U.K.)
Ho.Me is a short dance film that explores themes of belonging, comfort and discomfort in relation to the notion of inhabiting the body. The piece is comprised of three portraits of individuals who live in very different bodies linked together through a loose narrative. Shot in the intimate settings of each dancers’ home, the three performers move through solo material derived from the questions: Where do I come from? What stories do I carry? What is inside me? Through the three characters’ movement we learn about their distinct qualities and quirks. A kitchen, a living room, a couch, a clock… What stories to these places carries? How does the body relate to them? Moving from the private, intimate, space of their homes, the dancers become an ensemble in the formal setting of an art gallery, building a connection that speaks to togetherness. Ho.Me revels in the beauty of difference and the universality of the body; it highlights the relationship between the body and the self and the creative possibilities of the body.
Ho.Me will be showing as part of our TEAL program exhibiting July 15-19th, 2021!
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