Donna Redlick
The following are a few hi-lights of works presented by Donna Redlick Dance over the years:
2023-2024
A film focusing on the proprioceptive and sensing experience through a surface to surface relationship.
choreography and film: Donna Redlick
dance interpreter: Carolina Bergonzoni
2017-2018
"None of us stands outside humanity's black collective self." - Carl Jung
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.
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.
Body as Site
2014-2017
"Space is not the setting in which things are arranged, but the means whereby the position of things becomes possible." - Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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.
Concept and Choreographic Direction: Donna Redlick
Dancers involved in project: Salome Nieto, Mireille Rosner, Maikki Uotila-Kraatz, Amy Woods, and Donna Redlick.
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.
Concept, film, choreography and performance:
Donna Redlick
2010-2011
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.
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
Dance in Vancouver: Choreography Walk
2016
Blood Alley, Vancouver
Umbrella Dance - 2010
Deer Lake Park, Burnaby
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.
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.
Choreography and direction: Donna Redlick
Performer/ Dancer: Salome Nieto (formally Diaz)
2006
A solo investigating the fluid self.
choreography and film: Donna Redlick
dancer: Stephanie Pintar
a solo commissioned by Maindance
(re)calling memory
2004-2005
A series of works exploring how imagination and memory are linked, evoked by image, object, and the human spirit.
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.
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.
Choreography: Donna Redlick
Dancers in 1998 cast:
Tasha Lawson, Donna Redlick and Kim Wolski
Dancers in 1997 cast:
Tasha Lawson, Cara Sui, and Kim Wolski
