Anandam Dancetheatre
Ephemeral Artifacts
Artist Showcase
Dance
Shenkman Arts Centre
Tuesday, 7 November
6:30pm
ĀNANDAM creates contemporary performances with diverse aesthetic models that centre the body. We engage in rigorous examinations of form, content and context. Our projects contribute to understanding the evolving contemporary in dance.
Founded in 2010 by Brandy Leary, ĀNANDAM is a not-for-profit, charitable arts organization based in Toronto, Canada. Since its start ĀNANDAM has presented solo and ensemble choreographies, interdisciplinary collaborations, curated series and festivals. ĀNANDAM’s performances inhabit theaters, galleries, museums, architecture, landscape and public spaces. Our repertoire tours regularly with thousands of people experiencing our work across Canada, Europe, the Arctic, South Africa, India and USA.
Ephemeral Artifacts
Ephemeral Artifacts is a non-linear journey through the evolution of jazz and tap. It celebrates the body as a space of transmission and dance as a defiant act of creating knowledge. Featuring subversive tap dance superstar Travis Knights, this work integrates dance, music, video and storytelling. It unravels the body as a site of consequence and celebrates dance as a form of resistance.
History of this Production : Ephemeral Artifacts is an iterative repertoire production of ANANDAM’s choreographed by Brandy Leary. Created in 2017 it exists in different iterations, each with a diverse cast of artists. Since 2017 the work has been shown in gallery, theatre and public space contexts. Ephemeral Artifacts: Travis Knights features magnetic tap artist Travis Knights. This unique collaboration between Leary and Knights offers a multidisciplinary journey that unsettles standard traditions of choreography, improvisation and collective creation.