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A performance of EESTI: “Myths and Machines” (Unplugged) in Parrsboro for ONE NIGHT ONLY

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Artists in residence Thea Patterson, Peter Trosztmer, Lois Brown, Jean-Sébastien Durocher and Jeremy Gordaneer will be staging an unplugged performance of EESTI: “Myths and Machines” at Main & Station, Parrsboro’s ‘old post office’, on Thursday, October 2nd, 2014.

Eesti: Myths and Machines is Peter Trosztmer’s choreographic examination of his family history and how it has shaped his own identity. Brought to life through letters and an oral history, this work is a tour de force of movement, storytelling and moving sound sculpture that takes the viewer on a journey of discovery and redemption.

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“This is the story of how my family came to Canada …  This is absolutely nothing like how my family came to Canada”

Inspired by the stories of my Grandfather’s escape from Estonia at the end of WWII in a small boat, Eesti Myths and Machines is a tour de force of movement, storytelling and moving sound sculpture that takes the viewer on a journey of discovery and redemption. Brought to life through letters and an oral history we travel through time as I come to terms with how my grandfather’s heroism and courage resonate two generations later, and howthey find a voice is the much less epic moments of ‘heroism’ that I encounter in my day to day neighbourhood life.

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“There are those rare performances that fill you up so that you’re brimming, stoked by the integrity of the work, or perhaps elated with a feeling of reflection… easily one of the best productions of the year.” – Philip Szporer – Dance Current

“Une pièce magnifique, mon coup de cœur de l’automne … La danse, le texte, l’environnement sonore et visuel se font écho avec une rare cohérence et une grande poésie.”- Frédérique Doyon – Le Devoir

Top 5 choreographies of 2011  – Fabienne Cabado – Voir

“…un hallucinant solo… à la fois lumineux et bouleversant.” – Natalia Wysocka  –  Nightlife.ca

This is for one night only so don’t miss it!

Thursday, October 2nd at 8:00PM

 Pay What You Can

 Dave MacLeod

The group have performances of Eesti scheduled in Halifax from September 25th through 27th at liveart Dance Productions as well as an intimate sound performance at  Parentheses on the 28th. On October 8th they will perform at Neighbourhood Dance Works in St John’s.

Myth and Machines was created with the support of Studio 303, Tangente, Public Energy, Le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec, and The Canada Council for the Arts.

Since 2012, Peter Trosztmer is also a Nonesuch artist in residence at Techno-Lith’s New City Gas Complex in Montreal.

Chloé Beaulac, exhibit & residency

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  • WHEN: August 2014. The exhibit opens on August 8th at 6pm.  The artist will be on site and will present a short talk about her work. The exhibit will remain open until August 17th.

  • WHERE:  the secondfloor gallery  at Main & Station, 168 Main Street, Parrsboro, NS.   

Chloé Beaulac, a multidisciplinary artist based out of Montreal, has accepted a residency at Main & Station this August.  An exhibition of her work LA NATURE ENTRE NOUS – THE NATURE BETWEEN US will open in the secondfloor gallery at 6pm on August 8th, 2014.

chapter 2Beaulac puts understanding our role in nature and history at the heart of her artistic pursuit. In the manner of an explorer, she travels a territory letting it infuse her with its history, myths, and personalities. Following these encounters with nature, Beaulac translates them through her screenprints, drawings, paintings, sculptures and multimedia works into symbolic elements that she fragments, recomposes and layers.

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Her process of deconstruction and reconstruction is Beaulac’s way of recreating the ephemeral nature of epiphanies. She studies events that have the power to evoke a sense of personal transformation, drawing upon their various spaces, objects and relationships in order to reproduce or capture the essence of their transformative qualities. Through her creations, she meticulously channels the memory of charged events in the interest of creating an accurate representation of the emotions felt during these experiences rather than the fallible images once recorded by memory. Her works are a personal representation of identity, influence and reflection.

 http://www.chloebeaulac.com/