After a week in residence at ArtSpring, Vancouver-based dancer Calder White invites the community to experience his work in progress.
Using life-sized puppets and costume design to obscure the performers’ identities, Calder White’s dance-theatre work asks how far we will go to avoid being alone.
The characters we encounter in the piece exist at the intersection of intimacy and horror, building and becoming objects of desire to be inhabited and projected onto.
Fantasy becomes reality in a series of vignettes that place courtship, reproduction, and romantic idolatry on a pedestal and under a microscope. The work draws from queer intimacy and kink practices, conjuring the simultaneous danger and care inherent to marginal spaces.
