ENTRANCES

Co-creator and Video Design | Presented online by ReLoCate as part of The Experiment, a Calgary-based contemporary dance series. August 6-8, 2021. Developed as part of Good Women Dance Collective’s Creative Incubator residency. May 2021. Ongoing development.

Created and performed by Lin Snelling, Tori Morrison, and David Gagnon Walker.

Writing and dancing by David Gagnon Walker.
Dramaturgy and dancing by Lin Snelling.
Video design and live mixing by Tori Morrison.

Produced by Strange Victory Performance.

ENTRANCES is an artistic research project on the relationship between writing and performing.

Dance artist Lin Snelling and writer David Gagnon Walker perform a digital duet from their respective homes, accompanied and live-mixed by multimedia designer Tori Morrison. Fusing techniques from dance, theatre, literary poetry, and digital performance, they work through a suite of texts by David that each begin with the phrase “Sarah walks into a room”. Lin and David “play Sarah” together. They move, speak, and type through and around the poems in an improvised score, simultaneously responding to the existing texts and generating new written and physical material. An investigation of the nature and manifestations of creative thought, the performance also maps the complex experience of being isolated in a body, a mind, and a room during this strange time in human history. Responding to each other through the shimmering intimacy of digital connection, the artists work to articulate how thinking feels and what feelings do.