Transmission of the Invisible (PuSh Festival) January 29, 2009

"keeps breaking the rules about what dance should be" - Globe and Mail

Post-show Talkback
Jan 30

Choreography, Music, Costume Design Peter Chin
Dancers Sean Ling, Andrea Nann, Heidi Strauss and Yim Savann
and Phon Sopheap (Cambodia)
Video installation Cylla von Tiedemann

This stunning new project by Tribal Crackling Wind’s Artistic Director Peter Chin was developed with an artistic team from Cambodia and Canada. With over three years of research and development, working in association with Phnom Penh's Amrita Performing Arts, Tribal Crackling Wind has developed its most challenging and ambitious work to date.

The cultural and human losses of the Khmer Rouge era in Cambodia form the background to this work, but with a primary focus on the subsequent recovery and rebuilding, especially of the arts, that started in the 1980s. Transmission of the Invisible was initially inspired by watching an aged classical Cambodian dance teacher as she instructed her student in an almost-lost classical work. With a searching eye for what lay beneath the gestures between the teacher and student, Peter Chin has created a work that meditates on how we pass on to one another the unseen essence of a people that is contained and distilled in its cultural forms. Transmission of the Invisible is also about the way that strange and seemingly impenetrable parts of a foreign culture can nevertheless connect and resonate within us by mysterious routes.

Tribal Crackling Wind is an interdisciplinary performing arts company based in Toronto. It was founded in 1999 to bring together the artists and means to produce the works of Artistic Director Peter Chin, a choreographer, composer, designer, writer, director and performer of dance and music. He creates works that potentially engage all of these disciplines, inspired by the Asian paradigm of “Total Theatre”.

www.tribalcracklingwind.ca

Official Website: http://www.pushfestival.ca