CARDINAL POINT
February 15th - 17th 2023
Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theatre
COPUCHA + GAP SHUP
Engaging elements from cueca (Chile’s national dance) and Kathak (A south asian classical dance form), the intercultural piece explores the possibility of code-switching between two movement languages to create smothering unrestrained by the boundaries of each. Bringing cueca and kathak into thoughtful and joyful conversation, thirteen dancers come together as a community in which these two forms exist as gossip and rumour, or ‘copucha’ and gum ‘shup’, that oscillate between polyphonic and cacophony ways.
Choreographers: Arita Bajpeyi and Sebastian Ureamuno
Featuring York Dance Ensemble: Gabriela June Braithwaite, Natalie Cooper, Christiano DiDomenico, Nicole Faithful, Mackenzie Grantham, Kerry Halpin, Zoë Rose Harrington, Jealyn Jones, Travis Keith, Victoria Kuronen, Eve Law, Zuri Skeete, Natalie Yeung.
Dramaturg: Jennifer Dick
Music composed and performed by Leo Orlov
Visuals, movement recording and projection: Nava Messas Waxman