January 11, 2025 7:30 PM Mile Zero Dance Space
This show is the second part of our creative mentorship project. Begun in 2023, this side of the project focuses on multidisciplinary work, and features an awesome double bill of new creations and performances: Spinning Stardust, by emerging artist Diana Taylor, and Cyzmic swAy by mentor erψn temp3st. These two artists will certainly live up to the idea of “multidisciplinary”, with all kinds of amazing elements: live electronic sound, harp, projections, live video, movement, fibre arts, and much, much more! The splendid Mile Zero Dance space is our home for this evening, a really great place to experience the abundance of live, audio, and video streams in the two pieces. Thank you to the Edmonton Arts Council Connections and Exchanges program for making this project possible!
Cyzmic swAy is a sound and body-based performance that explores texture and resonance with respect to the architectural extensions of body and sculpture. Through movement, sound, and voice Cyzmic swAy parses questions of posthuman materiality that propose a body enmeshed in the matter and reverberations of a vibrant world
Spinning Stardust: What if you could spin stardust into twinkling golden thread and knit a five pointed suit that would take you into the night sky, glimmering and shimmering? Spinning Stardust is a multidisciplinary work (harp, storytelling, fibre art) that chronicles the adventures of one forest gnome who, armed with a spindle and some yarn spun from forest matter, dips his long, delicate toes into the world of fast fashion. It invites one to ponder where their body ends and where their clothes begin, and how what we wear has the power to transform us. Come to Mile Zero and sit upon the floor, a story has slipped beneath the door….
Accessibility
Mile Zero Dance Space (9931 – 78 Avenue NW, Edmonton): accessible building with multiple all-gender washrooms. There is a cleared path from the front door to the warehouse space. We have two accessible washroom facilities on the main floor as well. Please note that we do not yet have an automatic front door and the sidewalk outside needs to be improved as well. The #523 bus stops at 99 St and 78 Ave, approx 120 meters from the venue (stop #1542 SB, stop #22729 NB), and the #8 bus stops at Whyte Ave and 99 St, approx 500 meters from the venue (stop #1035 EB, #2824 WB)
erψn temp3st is an artist of settler descent, working through questions of embodiment and the aura of all things physical and virtual. They are interested in the body as a site of rupture, an ever unfolding excess of significance whose shape is delineated moment by moment through fields of intention and affect. Their work means to invert inner and outer, often incorporating video, live sound, somatic elaborations, and interactive media to gather brightness and charge through which to touch,…, barely, hopefully,…, the leaning and reaching parts (the tender offerings) of an audience.
www.eryntempest.com
Diana Tayler is a composer, arranger, performer (harp, voice), and musical educator based in Amiskwaciwâskahikan / ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ (Edmonton, Alberta). Diana writes music for solo instruments, dance, choir, and chamber ensembles, and delights in infusing her music with her parallel artistic practices of storytelling and fibre art. Diana has completed graduate studies in composition and Slavic linguistics at the University of Alberta, and an Associate diploma in Piano Performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music (ARCT). She is active in community music as a clinician and adjudicator, and in Edmonton’s vibrant choral and new music communities. In her spare time she can be found exploring nature, making creations of all kinds with her children, writing fables and fairy tales, and dreaming about future projects. Photo credit: Diana Tayler
Angelique Nash-Thurmeier (narrator) – Angelique is narrating Diana Tayler’s whimsical short story Spinning Stardust. Angelique is a teacher, musician, nature-loving gardener and appreciator of art. She is honoured to be working with Diana on Diana’s auditorily rich and beautiful multimedia project
