Convergence 2025 - a dance double bill

Good Women Dance Collective performs a new work, Blue Orbit, in collaboration with interdisciplinary artist, erψn temp3st. Surrounded by a landscape of objects, a surreal soundscape is emitted. We listen, we witness, and we move. Everything can be seen in this blue orbit, exposing the space and all its contents. Specific physical tasks such as loops, spinning, reorienting and orbiting highlight in the performers their fullest range from the most expansive to the minute. Objects are animated and bodies explore mechanics. Dancers create rhythm and sound, objects move. Roles and edges are blurred, and one thing fades into the other.

Choreographed by Molly McDermott, performed by Alida Kendell, Alison Kause and erψn temp3st, with dramaturgy by Lin Snelling.

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Tia Ashley Kushniruk (亚 女弟) and Susannah Haight perform in a new work: “We’re working with the figure of the Virgin Mary as an entry point into exploring the “sacred feminine construct” and how female iconography in religious contexts has been used to define, restrict, and idealize women.

We’re interested in what happens when that image fractures, when she is pushed into spaces that are unruly, excessive, or even monstrous. We’re drawing from horror cinema, films like Possession (Dir: Andrzej Żuławski) and Titaine (Dir: Julia Ducournau) and body horror, as a way to destabilize these traditional narratives. I’m bringing my background in set design and tableau vivant, and Tia is bringing her Bouffon practice, so the work blends satire, distortion, and image-making in equal measure.

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CONVERGENCE 2025
November 27th - Opening Night, 7:30 pm*
November 28th - Deaf Access Night, 7:30 pm
November 29th - Sensory Informed Show, 2:00 pm
November 29th - Closing Night, 7:30 pm
Venue: Mile Zero Dance, 9931 78 Avenue NW

*There will be a talkback with Convergence artists after the show on November 27th. Talkback facilitated by Lin Snelling

Here are a few things to know before the show!