Kevin O’Connor brings world-renowned aerial
acrobats and dancers together for a multi media creation
The Sunlight Zone
Thursday April 2, 7:30pm, Friday April 3, 7:30pm, Saturday April
4, 1:30pm and 7:30pm
Veterans’ Memorial Building
Tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/55839
Emerging director and choreographer Kevin O’Connor, a graduate
of the prestigious National Circus School of Montreal (started by
Cirque de Soliel), presents a new multi-medium aerial dance work
called The Sunlight Zone. This piece will be in collaboration with
two world renowned aerialist acrobats Terry Crane and Jukka Jutti,
dancer Ana Flecha, Montreal soundscape artist Mitch Akiyama, jazz
singer Jesse Ross and video artist Fabio Flecha.
The Sunlight Zone is a multi-arts show examining the relationship
between the watershed we live in and our ecological footprint impacting
it. The piece will combine elements of circus arts, dance, video
projection, a music soundscape and voice. According to Maude Barlow
(senior advisor on water issues to the United Nations), a global
shortage of water is looming as the most threatening ecological,
economic, and political crisis of the twenty-first century. Humanity
is polluting, diverting, and depleting the wellspring of life at
a startling rate. This project will bring attention to the hydrologic
web, with water being the life-giving connecting thread. This piece
will tour to New York City and to Toronto, Canada.
Kevin O’Connor won the prestigious multi-art grant from the
Canadian Arts Council to produce The Sunlight Zone. O’Connor
currently works for Bessie award winning choreographer Noemie Lafrance
in New York City and is part of a dance tour on the walls of Frank
Gehry buildings worldwide. O’Connor started his own experimental
arts company called Tipping Point Productions in 2008. Drawing upon
his degree in Environment Science and his professional studies in
acrobatics, dance and martial arts, his mission is to produce innovative
performances and site-specific installations that fuse these elements
together. His vision is to create visually compelling pieces that
strengthen the link between our community and local environment.
For more information please check www.kevinoconnor.ca
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