DANCE AND DISOBEDIENCE. Four evenings. Four different dance performances that can be viewed singly or as a whole. A dance to all four points of the compass where movements are echoed and repeated. The four winds blow through this four-star work with four eyes taking a bold, hard gaze at clichés about women. The Vancouver dancer and performer Antonija Livingstone, who has danced for Benoît Lachambre and Meg Stuart, among others, has teamed up with the New York choreographer and performer Heather Kravas for a cynical waltz in quadruple time that is hair-raising, provocative, unsettling and playful. It marries dance with a brass band and a chamber orchestra, has a couple embrace both onstage and in the audience and puts a stepladder together with a man who rains small bits of paper down onto the stage. As abolitionists, the two artists are situationists who use dance to attack the prevailing ideology, replacing it with poetry, celebration and play. They demonstrate how traditional models are perpetuated in a performance where institutions and individuals play their assigned roles. And what a thrill to smash that structure to pieces, in four-four time!

Created And Performed By Antonija Livingstone, Heather Kravas
With the contributions of many special guests
With the support of Daniel Léveillé Danse
Created in residency at Le "laboratoire socio-artistique" Les Bains : connective de Bruxelles, Centre chorégraphique national de Franche-Comté à Belfort (France), Danse Theatre Workshop (New York), le Quartz-scène national de Brest.