Ramble

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45 minutes live dance, video, video mixing, music

SummerWorks Special Presentation Series

Toronto, 2015

Dance, Performance and Direction:

Aimée Dawn Robinson

Video and Video Tech: Renée Lear

Live Video Mixing: Renée Lear

with video and photo contributions from

ADR. Scott Maynard and Renée Lear

Music Composition and Performance: Scott Maynard

Costume: Aimée Dawn Robinson, Heather Bell Callahan and Gretchen Robinson

+ the SummerWorks team: thank-you for the invitation!

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*click photos for a closer look

*all images here are video stills from footage shot by Eric Cazdyn ulness otherwise noted

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Program Note Excerpts from the Ramble makers

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From Aimée:

How does one dance an old dance in a new place?

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Ramble is an outdoor dance performed indoors. A dance that has crossed the country, traveled rivers, lakes, crossed the ocean, and before, existed in another place and time entirely. North, south, east, west, further north and further east, further north again, and through a different range of mountains and gently into the river my grandfather would swim across to visit his girl.

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I invite you to set aside the tendency to approach artwork as consumers, and instead join us in this shared & social process of art making: become witnesses, participants, friends, curious people, hopeful people.

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Renée’s approach to video in Ramble:

Landscape is video. Video is material. Material is landscape.

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Scott's approach to creating the music:

I am drawn to the sounds of technology and of nature. Often have I found myself singing songs over the drone of a boat engine, or brought to silence by, for example, the complex tapestry of voices in the wetlands of Ontario. I've recorded drones from my daily life in Whitehorse: from the Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre, where I work. I've sampled the Yukon river for further treatment.

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