Body 13 & Beach Dance Party
By The Ensemble
January 2014
Gwaandak Theatre and the Yukon Arts Centre co-present MT Space's Body 13.
Three love stories, a stretch of Canadian beach, a wedding and a funeral...
Rita tries to scatter the ashes of her father. Like Hamlet, she hesitates. Assaf walks up and down the beach looking for something, or looking for nothing. He misses a daughter and contemplates a life lost in the Lebanese civil war. Tristan from Newfoundland meets Ato from Ghana. They have nothing in common, and yet... Iman, a recent refugee from Syria, coincidentally meets her immigration officer Rae. The two women find themselves facing generational, cultural and political differences forcing them apart, or maybe pulling them together. Thomas, the grandson of a British war veteran, prepares for his speech at his best friend’s wedding.
Tackling the politics of the sexualized body — the intertwined stories of characters driven by their desires — propelled forward or derailed ...
An exploration of intergenerational and inter-gendered conflict amongst international cultures where vastly different cultured bodies encounter one another...
Signature physicality and dynamic improvisation tackle the core subject of human relationships negotiated through body language and sub-cultural communication.
Join us on the beach!
Body 13 - January 29th-31st (Artist Talkback - January 29th)
Yukon Arts Centre
Body 13 Beach Dance Party - January 30th
Yukon Arts Centre
Presented by Gwaandak Theatre and Yukon Arts Centre. It’s January in the Yukon… Bring your shades, flip-flops, hat and beachwear and heat things up!
Come out and join us for Bhangra dancing (Bollywood style) with Gurdeep Pandher, belly dancing with Andra Hunter, salsa dancing with Trevor Copp, and emceeing by Claire Ness! The YAC bar will be open and serving drinks, and the Gwaandak team will be mixing up some piña colada's! This event is free to attend with a Body 13 performance ticket or by donation.
CREDITS
Featuring Badih AbouChakra, Jessalyn Broadfoot, Brad Cook*, Trevor Copp, Nada Humsi, Tawiah Ben M’Carthy, Pam Patel
Workshop Playwrights | Joan Kivanda & Gary Kirkham
Director | Majdi Bou-Matar
Dramaturgy | Ric Knowles
Composer & Musicians | Nick Storring, Colin Fisher & Germaine Liu
Set & Lighting Designer | Jenny Jimenez
Costume Designer | Denis Huneault-Joffre
Head Carpenter | Gary Kirkham
Stage Manager | Hannah Metcalfe
Photography | Andy Wright & Nicholas Cumming
*Appears with the permission of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association