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|Image=Batteryopera.jpeg | |Image=Batteryopera.jpeg | ||
|Home page=http://www.batteryopera.com/ | |Home page=http://www.batteryopera.com/ | ||
|Location=Vancouver | |Location=Vancouver | ||
|Arts=Arts, Actor, Dance, Danse, Media Arts, Music, Poetry, Theatre, Visual Arts | |Arts=Arts, Actor, Dance, Danse, Media Arts, Music, Poetry, Theatre, Visual Arts | ||
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== About == | |||
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"Battery opera was founded in 1995 by dancer/choreographer Lee Su-Feh and writer/singer David McIntosh. | |||
The work of battery opera interrogates the contemporary body as a site of intersecting and displaced cultures, histories and habits. Underlying the practice of battery opera is a dynamic dialogue and mutual attraction between opposing tensions, an exchange that is sensitive to the nuances of power and influence in the socio-political history we have inherited. Inherent in this dialogue is a search for language that both embraces and frees us from the assumptions of traditional performance structures. | |||
battery opera celebrates the power of the human body to transform space, time and perception; a body that is at once fragile and powerful; a body that breathes, speaks, sings, thinks, moves, dances. | |||
why battery? | |||
because it's small, practical yet contains within it the polarities of positive and negative, male and female, yin and yang. | |||
why opera? | |||
because it's big, impractical and contains within it the polarities of life and death, love and fear, hope and despair."[http://www.batteryopera.com/about/] | |||
== History == | |||
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*2009 "Lives were around me." | |||
*2008 Body-Scan (co-production with parB.L.eux) | |||
**The Whole Beast | |||
*2007 What the Hell? | |||
**[storm] II | |||
*2006 [storm] I | |||
**Wanton Heat and Loose Desire | |||
*2005 Bob's Lounge | |||
*2003 Cyclops | |||
*2001 Spektator | |||
*2000 Reptile-Diva | |||
*1999 Wake | |||
*1997 Brick | |||
**Gecko Eats Fly | |||
**Let’s Get Ready to Rumble | |||
*1996 Hinndi Finndi Hogmonay in Old Guangzhou | |||
*1995 Ten Thousand Things | |||
**Speck | |||
*1992 A Character of Dubious Morality | |||
[http://www.batteryopera.com/about/] | |||
== Awards == | |||
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*2004: battery opera is recipient of the coveted Best Naked/Worst Naked award from Crimson Coast Dance for Spektator in Nanaimo | |||
*March 2002: battery opera receives a Jessie (Best Lighting Design for James Proudfoot) for Spektator after which the award committee bans all dance companies from future eligibility | |||
*March 2002: battery opera is announced as recipient of the 2003 Alcan Award for Performing Arts in Dance | |||
*May 1998: Lee Su-Feh given the Prix de Jeune Auteur of the Rencontres Chorégraphiques de Seine-St. Denis for her work Gecko Eats Fly | |||
*September 1992: A Character of Dubious Morality wins Producers' Award for choreography at Dancing on the Edge Festival | |||
[http://www.batteryopera.com/about/] | |||
== Lee Su-Feh == | |||
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"Lee Su-Feh is Artistic Director of battery opera. How this happened involved: Childrens’ Theatre with Janet Pillai, traditional Malay and contemporary dance with Marion D’Cruz in Malaysia, contemporary dance with Lari Leong in Paris, contact improvisation with Peter BIngham in Vancouver; and many years of Chinese martial arts with infuriatingly exacting teachers. Before coming to Vancouver in 1988, she lived in Paris, London, Indonesia and Malaysia. She speaks 6 languages badly. In 1998, she won the Prix de Jeune Auteur of the Rencontres Choregraphiques Internationales de Seine-St. Denis for her work Gecko Eats Fly. In theatre, Su-Feh has worked as a choreographer with directors such as Marc Diamond, Donna Spencer and most recently DD Kugler and Steven Hill. She has been nominated twice for a Jessie Award. In 1995, she co-founded battery opera with David McIntosh with whom she has been collaborating ever since she saw him lying, bleeding, in Kota Baru in 1985."[http://www.batteryopera.com/su-feh/] | |||
She also writes a blog on BlogSpot. [http://leesufeh.blogspot.ca/] | |||
== David McIntosh == | |||
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"David McIntosh is a writer, singer, and the artistic producer of battery opera. | |||
In 1995 he co-founded battery opera with Lee Su-Feh, whom he began collaborating with shortly after he was run over while on his bicycle somewhere between Kuantan and Kota Baru."[http://www.batteryopera.com/david/] | |||
David also writes a blog for battery opera on BlogSpot. [http://batteryopera.blogspot.ca/] | |||