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- Title
"Traces Devised Reminiscence".
- Authors
Polak, Michelle; Barton, Bruce; Julien, Martin
- Abstract
One of the last performances Vertical City (Bruce Barton and Pil Hansen) created before moving from Toronto to Calgary was Trace, which premiered at the 2014 SummerWorks festival. Crafted in a compact and intense development process with close collaborators Michelle Polak and Martin Julien, Trace marked a subtle but defining moment in our artistic trajectory. Engaging participants in ways unconceivable in our present pandemic world, it was one of our most illuminating explorations of the potential for/in deeply intimate personal exchange between performers and audience members. Trace was built on, with, and through a process of spontaneous collective reminiscence-one perhaps only conceivable within SummerWorks' combination of careful curatorial oversight and empowering artist autonomy. Adopting similar structural and aesthetic principles, this impressionistic three-way meandering reflects back on that experience. In the process, it renders a fittingly fragmented but deeply felt ode to SummerWorks' distinctive blend of intention, intelligence, and opportunity.
- Subjects
VERTICAL City (Theatrical production); INTIMACY (Psychology) in the theater; JULIEN, Martin; DRAMA festivals; PERFORMING arts festivals
- Publication
Canadian Theatre Review, 2021, Vol 187, p53
- ISSN
0315-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3138/ctr.187.018