Light and Metal at the MET

The Kitimat Concert Association, in collaboration with Made in BC - Dance on Tour, is proud to present Light and Metal - the combined efforts of MovEnt’s www.movent.ca/surge.html” SURGE and Tara Cheyenne Performance’s bANGER, at the Mount Elizabeth Theatre this Friday, October 30, at 8 p.m.

MovEnt is a Vancouver-based, charitable non-profit dance society that was formed in 2001. It is devoted to the creation and production of new contemporary dance works, the supporting of new professional dance artists, and to the development of an audience for contemporary dance.

Searching out a physicality of strength and urban contemporary style, MovEnt aspires to choreograph and produce dance that encourages high expectations and discovers engaging art.

Directed by Julie-anne Saroyan and Day Helesic, MovEnt creates and produces dance that is artful and accessible. MovEnt introduces dance to a new audience through both conventional and unconventional productions, thereby broadening the audience base for dance.

MovEnt has also reached out to the community by offering workshops, open rehearsals, mentoring activities and a variety of dance events that brings an enjoyment of dance to the public.

Encouraging and developing a sense of excitement for dance is MovEnt’s fundamental aspiration.

MovEnt supports the creation of new choreography by Co-artistic producer Day Helesic whose choreographies have enjoyed multiple presentations across North America. Helesic’s dance works are bold and kinetic, a combination of technical virtuosity and abandoned physicality.

On the other side of this collaboration is bANGER, and Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg does what Tara does best, telling a story steeped in character through a playful mix of movement and text.

Remember that guy from school, heavy metal pouring from his headphones, draped in standard army issue clothing…not much of a talker? You might have made fun of him or at best tried to ignore him.

Friedenberg sheds some light on this social reject and attempts to reconcile the differences between us and him, in her presentation of bANGER.

Tara’s creative process begins with an overarching social theme which is whittled down, and then morphed into to a single, accessible character.

Thus, social alienation is perceived through the lens of a head banging teenager.

Love (and the lack thereof) reels through the fast-paced world of this young man’s pain and driven efforts to find his fit in this dog-eat-dog world.

Doors open at 7:30 p.m. with showtime at 8 p.m. Tickets are available through Bookmasters or at the door.

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