Glaciology is a performance art installation by Anandam Dance Theatre which was continuously active for the full 12 hours of Nuit Blanche Toronto 2015.
Glaciology: Being Inside the Glacier is a short documentary about the performer's experience.
Release date: January 26th 2016
A Film by Lisa Anita Wegner
Assistant Producer/ Talent Coordinator: Veronica Silva
Location Manager: David Oliveira
Sound Recording: David Oliveira and Ray Cammaert
Camera: Lisa Anita Wegner and Veronica Silva
Colour Correct: David Oliveira
Opening Credit Sequence: Ray Cammaert
Musical Score Recorded at Tinshop by Ray Cammaert
Additional Glacier Footage courtesy of Brandy Leary, Anandam Dance Theatre and Ice CAPS
2015 Haus of Dada
GLACIOLOGY
Choreographer: Brandy Leary
Installation Sound: James Bunton
Using the movements of glaciers across the earth’s surface as an entry point, this piece explores states of density, collaboration, collapse, overpopulation, relocation, disruption, environmental tipping points, mass graves, icebergs, and melting ice caps.
Glaciology is a site specific performance that combines choreography with human sculpture and interactive technology. This creates a surreal, constantly shifting image of bodies as landscape and simultaneously as capsules of history and memory; both human and geological.
Glaciology works with many bodies in motion to evoke the permanent effects of human and ecological conflicts. It takes the audience through the past centuries by overlapping and contrasting these images and ideas with the indelible power of glacial movements across landscapes.
Ensemble for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2015:
Adrienne Medjo Alexander Taylor Alisha Maclean Amy Hampton Amy Strizic
Andrew Gaboury Andrya Duff Andy Wang Anna Ho Arnaud Baudry Betty Zhang
Bridget Rieger Brittany Howlett Candace Kumar Candice Irwin Christine Birch
Collette Radau Damarise Ste. Marie Denise Solleza Emily Saunders Emma Chorostecki
Enya White Eric Liu Greg Wong Hannah Schallert Hans Wolfgramm Holly Timpener
Holly Treddenick Jackie Houghton Jackie McCaffrey James Gagne Janaki Banting
Jane Kirby Jared Bishop Jen Hum Johannes Zits Jordan Campbell Jordyn Stewart
Justine Comfort Kari Pederson Katelyn McCulloch Kerryn Graham Kirsten Edwards
Lara Ebata Laura Snider Lindsay Goodtimes Lindsey Thompson Liona Davies
Lisa Anita Wegner Louis Laberge-Cote Margarita Soria Margaryta Golovchenko
Marie Lambin-Gagnon Mary-Margaret Scrimger Meghan Van der Giessen
Michael Caldwell Miles Gosse Mugabi Mpagi Natalie Fullerton Nicole Belfer Nicole Nigro
Nicole Schachter Nikolas Markakis Oriah Wiersma Quinn Morris Rebecca leonard Sara Witalis
Sarah Hoedlmoser Sarah Kim Sarah Muehlbauer Taliya Cohen Tamara Arenovich
Tamara Salpeter Tanya Crowder Teresa Ascencao Tiffany Schofield Toni Largo
Zachary Murphy