25 Gestures for Dancing on the Edge

// 25 Gestures for Dancing on the Edge

2013
Dancing on the Edge Festival
25 mins

25 minutes to mark 25 years. In celebration of Dancing on the Edge Festival’s 25th anniversary, Co.ERASGA’s Alvin Tolentino tackles a site-specific duet with critically acclaimed dancer Alison Denham. Composed of 25 gestures, Vancouver’s historic steam clock in Gastown comes alive with dance. Beginning with a ritual comprised of distinct ‘gestures’ and dance and moving in accordance with the clock’s signal.

CREATIVE TEAM & PERFORMERS

CHOREOGRAPHY: Alvin Erasga Tolentino
PERFORMANCE: Alvin Erasga Tolentino & Alison Denham

GALLERY

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Photo Credit: Sammie Gough

Co.ERASGA is Registered as Company Erasga Dance Society. Charitable registration number: 894061514 RR0001

Co.ERASGA acknowledges that our artistic programming and community work takes place on occupied and unceded ancestral, traditional territories of the Coast Salish people of Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. We are very grateful to live, work and share on these lands.

// 25 Gestures for Dancing on the Edge

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