In partnership with the Roundhouse Community Centre
opaqueREFUSALS Work in Progress
by danielle Mackenzie Long
Tuesday, Oct 29 | 4:30 - 7pm Open Rehearsal
Including 6pm informal run through of work followed by a conversation with the artists. Audiences are welcome to enter and exit anytime during the open rehearsal period.
Roundhouse Community Centre (181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver)
Free. RSVP required.
You're invited to a Work in Progress sharing — come witness and discuss how dance and technology inform one another.
This is a pressurized space (a where ?)
This is a pressurized body (aware — )
Bubble wrap represents a restrictive binary structure that is meant to be disrupted. Evolving through puncturing and deflation in order to provide safety to a delicate object, the material transforms just as bodies do in various ways to support gender affirmation. Playing with the transparency of bubble wrap in both live and digital spaces, opaqueREFUSALS uses it to conceal, distort, and ultimately reveal the complexity of intersecting genderqueer identities.
opaqueREFUSALS is a slowly developing two-part work; one part live performance, one part interactive online animated visual "zine." Its creation process embraces the intimacy required of pursuing dances working in relation to technology, and what emerges from digital glitches that occur.
About danielle:
danielle Mackenzie Long, a queer emerging artist, resides on the stolen and unceded territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm nations. They seek to use new media/film to liberate gender non-conforming dance artists to create work that surpasses gendered bodies through various means of visual presentation and audience access. At this time their creative practice is being expanded through engagements with Action at a Distance/Vanessa Goodman, Co.ERASGA/Alvin Erasga Tolentino, Shion Skye Carter, steph cyr, Kaili Che, and self checkout/Lamont. Spaces they have been in recent residencies with include Toronto Dance Theatre (Pilot Episodes) and New Works. As the current Associate Artistic Director of the Festival of Recorded Movement (F-O-R-M), they work alongside a small team of creatives, supporting the seeds of creations by youth and emerging artists whose works speak to the theme of “recorded movement.”
Occasionally danielle also studies Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia with the aspiration to infiltrate and challenge the academic world by navigating it with an emphasis on curiosity, refusal, and rest.
Instagram: @daniellemckz
Credits:
Director: danielle Mackenzie Long
Movement Collaborators: Oh Augustine, Ryan Jackson, Alder Mauria Orest Graye
Sound Designer: Brady Ciel Marks
Lighting Designer: Victoria Bell
Research in Residence Artists: Larkin Schering, erψn temp3st
Dramaturg: steph cyr
Choreographic Mentor: Vanessa Goodman
Digital Rigger: Kodai Yanagawa
Digital Mentors: Freya Björg Olafson, Nancy Lee
Among a competitive pool of applications, danielle was awarded residency space at New Works within the 2024-25 season. New Works strives to build process-focused artist-lead residency space that is responsive to the creative’s needs.
A New Works residency is a safe space for creative risk taking.
This XR creation theatre residency is in partnership with the Roundhouse Community Centre.