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The Body in Nature

Anne Troake's OutsideIn

Carol Prieur in Troake's film OutsideIn

OutsideIn is a stereoscopic dance film created by Anne Troake, featuring Carol Prieur of Compagnie Marie Choiunard and Bill Coleman of Coleman, Lemieux & Compagnie. The film was selected to represent Newfoundland at the 2015 Venice Biennale and is being screened at the National Arts Centre on July 15th and 16th, 2017, by the Canada Dance Festival.

Troake is a prolific multidisciplinary filmmaker who experiments with 3D dance film. Originally from Twillingate, Newfoundland, her practice is rooted in choreography and dance. Troake’s short film Pretty Big Dig won The CGI Jury Prize at Montreal’s Festival International du Film sur L’Art and, in 2005, she completed an ethnographic documentary My Ancestors Were Rogues and Murderers for the National Film Board of Canada - a feature that explores the debate on Canada’s seal hunt. The experience of creating this film inspired Troake to deepen her research and exploration of the human body’s relationship to nature as manifested in physicality, morality and beliefs.

For more of Troake’s films >> vimeo.com/user6320165

Posted July 10, 2017

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Cutting Paper

Cutting Paper is a short video work inspired by the short story The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Choreographed and performed by Jennifer Dallas, with videography by Melanie Gordon, the work is described by them as telling the story of “a woman’s quiet revolution as she slowly develops the courage to listen to her own voice in a world that mistakes her clarity and creativity for insanity.”

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