PANOPTICON

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Performed for LUGO 2018 at the Remai Modern Gallery in Saskatoon.
An hour and five minute long performance, on three levels of the Remai Modern, simultaneous with the perfomance of Terry Riley's "In C" under the direction of Darren Miller.

Choreography by Kyle Syverson
Concept and costumes by Kyle Syverson and Miki Mappin

Dancers:
Laura Harris
Annika Lessing
Miki Mappin
Kyle Syverson

Assistants:
Blair Charters
Daeran Gall
Danylo Puderak
Lautaro Reyes

In 2017 KSAMB Dance Company was invited by the program curator of the Remai Modern Museum to produce a new work for LUGO, a multi-arts fundraising event. We created the piece in the public spaces of the gallery, during and after museum hours. We were four female dancers accompanied by four male assistants and performed for an audience of around 1400 people. Our piece was a little over an hour long, on three levels, simultaneous with a performance of Terry Riley's "In C" by an orchestra of 20 musicians.
We called it "Panopticon". We had in mind power and surveillance and the ways we resist control through the freedoms we claim. We began our dance holding and using our cell phones. When the music began we handed them off to the men, who then followed us throughout, taking pictures.
We like to encourage multiple interpretations of our work. Several women who approached me after saw feminist themes of subjugation and resistance to social mores or control. We repeatedly stripped to our underwear, dropped dresses from one level to another, to be picked up and put on by one of the others. One man said he saw themes of Sysiphus. We did repeat our ambiguous "tasks", travelling from floor to floor, over and over. A friend saw references to Escher's stair drawings; there were indeed four flights of stairs, with 90 steps from top to bottom, linking balconies and a central space from which one could observe and be observed.

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For Nutrien WinterShines 2018, at the Saskatoon Farmer's Market Plaza. January 28 to February 3.

Contemporary dance adventures outside and around the bonfire. Three 25 minute performances, at minus 20 degrees Celsius 

Choreography by Kyle Syverson
Audio by Miki Mappin

Dancers: 
Arthur Despins
Laura Harris
Karla Kloeble
Mitchell Larsen
Miki Mappin
Kyle Syverson

Suit Case

SUIT CASE, a 3 hour performance, dancers Kyle Syverson, Miki Mappin, Laura Harris, at Nuit Blanche , Saskatoon.
SUIT CASE; a performance in 5 parts, dancers Kyle Syverson, Laura Harris and Blair Charters, for Reel Rave Film Festival, Waskesiu.
SUIT CASE, a ten minute performance, dancers Kyle Syverson, Miki Mappin, Laura Harris, Annika Lessing and Arthur Despins, Back Alley Antics, Saskatoon.   

Time Lab

In December of 2018, KSAMB hosted an investigation on time and presence in improvised dance.
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​With the assistance of the Sask Arts Board.