A message below from the multi-talented visionary and head Project Coordinator of the original Colouring Book, Gabrielle Martin. Check out the links to Gabe’s performance-based art work and her message below! Enjoy!
-Hedy
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Hello friends! I have just graduated from Concordia’s contemporary dance program and I have compiled all my choreographic work from the last 3 years on you tube. If you are at all curious as to my work, please view it at the links below. I have included more indepth desciptions in the write ups posted with the videos on the you tube pages. Please also feel free to share observations, especially in terms of themes you see within the body of my work, or how you interpret the work in terms of concepts, etc. Or just check it out. Not suprisingly, I am most proud of my most recent work. Of special note is the 16mm film made by Ivan Rubio of my december 2008 choreography, ‘Axial and the Plane’. Thanks for being part of the network I would like to share my work with!
‘In Deluge We Quell’. Live Performance. April 2009. Choreography and production design: Gabrielle Martin. The vocabulary and supporting production elements revolve around the theme of the individual drive for progress in the immediate, and for liberation in the ultimate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfiG3SL38IM
‘Axial and the Plane’. 16mm Film. January 2009. Film Producer and Director: Ivan Rubio. Choreographer: Gabrielle Martin. Axial and the Plane explores the austere aftermath of Our Future Disaster through contemporary dance and 16mm film.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfsm57ACg2M
‘Axial and the Plane’. Live performance. December 2008. Choreography: Gabrielle Martin. Both tranquil and frenetic, Axial and the Plane offers an ambivalent response to the eternal question of Our fated existence.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUzfK8Bx-kE
‘Box’. Live performance. April 2008. Choreography: Gabrielle Martin. A duo exploring the resistance, acquiescence, and interdependence of compulsive cohabitation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4xmocmsC7s
‘Chrysalis’. Video-dance. February 2008. 6:12 min excerpt of 25 minute piece. Choreographed and performed by Andrea Legg and Gabrielle Martin. Video produced and directed by Ivan Rubio. Chrysalis is a performance-installation of contemporary and Japanese butoh dance and aerial fabric.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-zwj-0X7cw
‘Inter’. Super8 film. February 2007. Choreographer, Dancer, and Filmmaker: Gabrielle Martin. A solo exemplifying the ephemeral experience of the body; the plasticity of the body in time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJKnz3-5H_w
‘Ether’. Video-dance. December 2006. Choreographer, Dancer, Video Editor: Gabrielle Martin. An installation-performance project, ‘Ether’ is a solo that explores the irony of motion as it relates to the concept of progress.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nSZKYITsnU
