It is a pleasure to welcome Peggy Baker to EDAM and the Western Front this May 2022
As Peggy Baker tours Western Canada with her work, the artist will spend a few days in Vancouver in residency with the Western Front and will perform and teach at EDAM.
Events you may like to join:
unmoored
Performances May 20th and 21st at EDAM
with post-show Talkback
Artist talk with Sarah Chase and Peggy Baker at Western Front
May 20th 11:00 - 12:00pm
Grow, Deepen, Expand: A talk with Peggy Baker and Sarah Chase
Location: Grand Luxe Hall, Western Front
Admission: Free (registration required)
Register: Link
To accompany the presentation of Unmoored, we welcome dance artists Peggy Baker and Sarah Chase for an open-ended conversation that may reflect on issues of memory, the preservation of performance, and the regenerative possibilities of archives, among other stories and themes related to their practices. This conversation will be moderated by Abigail Sebaly, Western Front’s Documentary Heritage Community Program Archivist, and a one-time dance student of both Baker and Chase.
Acknowledgements:
Presented by the Western Front in partnership with EDAM (Experimental Dance and Music).
Movement session with Peggy Baker
May 21st 1-2:30pm
Join us!
“In 2003 I turned to the extraordinary dance artist Sarah Chase to make a work for me. Sarah creates in a genre she describes as dancestories, and preliminary to working together she set me the task of writing two stories for every year of my life. When the time came to go into the studio together, I told Sarah that there was one aspect of my life that I hadn’t written about, and could not share in the public sphere. Sarah agreed to my caveat, and we went on to create a piece titled The Disappearance of Right and Left. In March of 2017, I sat down at a desk, in a small room, in a huge house in Bogliasco, Italy to remember and write the stories I had not been ready to share. Over the next months, Sarah and I worked together to distill my writing as a dancestory titled unmoored. The episodes I recount in unmoored describe events during the 20-year arc of my marriage to the musician, composer, and disability rights activist, Ahmed Hassan.” Peggy Baker
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choreography and direction: Sarah Chase
text and performance: Peggy Baker
sound design: Debashis Sinha
Arabic vocalist: Maryem Hassan Tollar
recording of Nina Simone, used with permission
lighting design: Marc Parent
technical director / stage manager: Gabriel Cropley
Health and Safety Policy: Masks are recommended but not mandatory. EDAM will provide single-mask if requested.
EDAM gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Province of British Columbia, the BC Arts Council and the City of Vancouver.