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The following are a few hi-lights of works presented by Donna Redlick Dance over the years:

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2023-2024

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A film focusing on the proprioceptive and sensing experience through a surface to surface relationship. 

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choreography and film:  Donna Redlick

dance interpreter:  Carolina Bergonzoni

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2017-2018

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​"None of us stands outside humanity's black collective self." - Carl Jung

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A work inspired by the 'shadow self' as well as tales shared and imagined about Vancouver's Blood Alley. Truth and reality blur to create a hybrid reality, the result is evocative landscapes of the human experience on death, life, darkness and a search for light and hope. â€‹

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choreography:  Donna Redlick

dancers in 2018 cast:  Salome Nieto, Alisoun Payne, Olivia Shaffer, and Cara Siu.

dancers in 2017 cast:  Salome Nieto, Alisoun Payne and Amy Woods. 

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Body as Site

2014-2017​

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"Space is not the setting in which things are arranged, but the means whereby the position of things becomes possible." - Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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Body as Site is a dance installation event integrating dance, sculpture and architecture. Measuring devices are brought to the body to invite a kinesthetic experience to inform architectural landscapes through space and time. As sites unfold they become artifacts of the dancers' moving experiences. 

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Concept and Choreographic Direction:  Donna Redlick

Dancers involved in project:  Salome Nieto, Mireille Rosner, Maikki Uotila-Kraatz, Amy Woods, and Donna Redlick.

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Architectural Consultant:  Rui Nunes

Folds (and matters of the flesh)

2012

A film and a live dance intersect exploring how inner and outer corporeal space envelop in a symbiotic relationship by foregrounding 'being-in-sensation' to witness the body in a continuous enfolding-unfolding relationship.  

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Concept, film, choreography and performance:

Donna Redlick

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2010-2011

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An interactive dance installation performance that explores the physical, psychological and emotional space and places of the "in-between".  Mirrors and text are integrated into the work creating reflections and proposing questions. The relationship between viewer and performer continually changes - through reflections. 

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Concept and Choreography:  Donna Redlick

Dancers 2011 cast:  Jeannine Miller, Salome Nieto, and Donna Redlick

Dancers 2011 cast: Leslie Dyer, Salome Nieto, and Donna Redlick

Site Performances

Surface​ - 2017

Woodward's Atrium, Vancouver

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​Dance in Vancouver: Choreography Walk

2016 

Blood Alley, Vancouver

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Umbrella Dance - 2010

Deer Lake Park, Burnaby

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Horizontal Longings

2010

Performed against a backdrop of moving images of wheatfields and trains, filmed in the Saskatchewan Prairies. This piece explores a longing to return to the landscape of earth and sky that Donna grew up in.

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Choreography:  Donna Redlick

Dancers:  Leslie Dyer and Donna Redlick

Sometimes it never leaves the skin

2008-2010

Autobiographical in nature this solo is a physical etching of a personal journey and dialogues on fragility, strength, fear and desire. By diving deep into the inner landscape of the body memories are revealed within the crevices of self.

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Choreography and direction: Donna Redlick

Performer/ Dancer:  Salome Nieto (formally Diaz)

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2006

A solo investigating the fluid self.

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choreography and film:  Donna Redlick

dancer:  Stephanie Pintar

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a solo commissioned by Maindance

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(re)calling memory

2004-2005

 A series of works exploring how imagination and memory are linked, evoked by image, object, and the human spirit. 

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Choreography:  Donna Redlick

Dancers:  Mara Branscombe, Celeste Lyon, Mireille Rosner, and Megan Ross. 

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Mother's Dresses

2002

A dance solo in collaboration with visual and textile artist Sharon Kallis. Dresses are sewn from Magnolia leaves and then hung in space revealing a haunting forest-like environment. The dance solo animates the dresses in space and time allowing the installation to come to life. 

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Installation:  Sharon Kallis

Performance and choreography:  Donna Redlick

Poetry of Chaos

1998-1999

Inspired by the multiple forms, patterns, and kinetic energy within Kandinsky's paintings. This trio explores perpetual shifting and changing of form through space, time and energy. 

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Choreography:  Donna Redlick

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Dancers in 1998 cast:  

Tasha Lawson, Donna Redlick and Kim Wolski

Dancers in 1997 cast:  

Tasha Lawson, Cara Sui, and Kim Wolski

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