nómadas
collaborator + performer
A live performance and audio/video installation, nómadas takes it inspiration from the current large-scale movements of bodies across international spaces as a type of chaotic transnational choreography that speaks to what cultural theorist Stuart Hall calls, a "contemporary travelling, voyaging and return as fate, as destiny […] as the prototype of the modern or postmodern New World nomad, continually moving between centre and periphery” (Hall in Rutherford, J. 234:1990).
nómadas is part of choreographer Henry Daniel's larger, long term Contemporary Nomads research project, which explores the "deep fragmentation which exists between communities within as well as outside national borders, between nationalized and personalized bodies, and between social and political institutions and the ordinary people they were meant to serve." (Daniel, 2017).
November 22 - December 2, 2017
nómadas
Dance Mainstage
SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
Vancouver, Canada
September 28-29, 2018
nómadas (excerpts)
Migration and Multiculturalism Conference
Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theater, SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
Vancouver, Canada
nómadas 2017 team:
Choreography + direction by Henry Daniel
Set design by Alan Storey
Sound design by Adam Basanta
Media design by Chimerik似不像
Dancers: Allison Vicente, Amy Griffith, Anja Graham, Caitlin McKinnon, Jeremy O’Neill, Kadin Vanden Heuvel, Kaia Shukin, Kestrel Paton, Kevin Locsin, Lynnelle Sura, Montserrat Videla Samper, Nelle Lee, Seana Williams, Vienna Wong, Yian Chen.
Dramaturgical assistance by Sasha Kleinplatz, Laura Albert
nómadas The Installation team:
Concept+Choreography+Direction by Henry Daniel
Text written and voiceover by Montserrat Videla Samper
Video/Film Installation by Emily Bayrock, Asad Yahya, Katrina Mugume, Henry Daniel
Set design by Alan Storey
Media design by Sammy Chien, Shanghan Chien
Sound design by Joel Lagemaat
Performers: Caitlin McKinnon, Kaia Shukin, Nelle Lee, Lynnelle Sura, Vienna Wong
Kestrel Paton, Kadin Vanden Heuvel, Anja Graham, Amy Griffith, Kevin Locsin, Allison Vicente
Seana Williams, Montserrat Videla Samper, Jeremy O’Neill, Nyssa Song, Sammy Chien, Shanghan Chien, Kevin Kim, Howard Dai, Henry Daniel
nómadas (excerpts) 2018 team:
Choreography by Henry Daniel
Text written and performed by Montserrat Videla Samper
Dancers: Marc Arboleda, Nelle Lee, Kaylee Louie, Eden Solomon, Juan Villegas, Seana Williams
Musicians-Fringe Percussion: Luke Hildebrandt, Brian Nesselroad, Greg Samek, Daniel Tones
Documentation by Henry Daniel
