As part of the third season of the dv_vd series, Vidéographe and Dazibao are pleased to dedicate an evening to dancer and choreographer Cai Glover, currently doing a research and creation residency for deaf artists at Vidéographe.
Cai Glover will present a program of video works selected from Vidéographe’s collection as well as the fruit of his residency, Je Parle, a video-dance work. The presentation will conclude with a discussion between Cai Glover, John Michael Canfield and Max Machado.
With this project, Glover is interested in how we experience authenticity through our relationships with others. His research on the communicability of signed language is based on the tensions that exist between experiencing one’s own mental state and our need for contact with the other in order to constitute ourselves as individuals.
PROGRAM (32 min)
Marlene Millar and Philip Szporer, Butte, 5 min 40 s, 2007
Aude Vuillemin, je marche, 7 min 18 s, 2017
Xavier Curnillon, À tes pulsions, 8 min 32 s, 2017
Yoakim Bélanger, If I Can Fly, 10 min 27 s, 2010
Followed by:
Behind the scenes of Je Parle, 6 min 30 s
Cai Glover, Je Parle, 12 min
► Consult the full program [+]
BIOGRAPHIES
Cai Glover has devoted more than 20 years of his life to the study of dance and the performing arts. He never tires of the search in finding ways to affect audiences through this art form and to appeal to the varied and countless emotional experiences of the human being. Among the many collaborations of his career that have seen him working in Vancouver, Atlanta, Kelowna, New York, Thailand, Birmingham, London, Paris and Montreal, Cai has worked with Henry Daniel, Paras Tarezakis, Josh Beamish, Judith Garay, Vanessa Goodman, Simone Orlando, Lauri Stallings, Gioconda Barbuto, Edgar Zendejas, Morgane Le Tiec and Hélène Blackburn. Cai has spent the last 6 years dancing with Cas Public under the direction of Hélène Blackburn. caspublic.org/cai-glover
Originally from Virginia (United State), John Michael Canfield is a graduate of Canada’s National Ballet School, where he trained for 5 years. Over the years, he has worked with companies across Canada, alongside to choreographers including Aszure Barton, Wen Wei Wang, Yukichi Hattori and Anne Plamondon. He joins Cas Public for its 2020-2021 season caspublic.org/john-michael-
Max Machado is a cinematographer that moved a bit around the globe before finding home in Montreal, QC, Canada. Always interested in creating meaningful, unique and powerful content, Max shoots fiction films, documentary projects and branded content. Projects include Daughters of the Voice (CBC), A People’s Soundtrack (PBS), Reflexion (XCircus), Hallelujah (QueerCircus), Hannah & the Wolf (Cas Public) and Faraway (RIDM, Slamdance). He was the recipient of the Jean-François Bourassa Memorial Award for his work in Amal (2018) and L’appétit des garçons (2018) and was nominated for one of the Canadian Society of Cinematographers awards for his work in Amal (2018). His short films were awarded and screened in over 35 film festivals around the world, in countries like Canada, USA, Poland, Scotland, Morocco, Serbia, Ukraine, India, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Belgium, Croatia, Spain, Germany, Indonesia, Austria and England. maxmachado.ca
ONLINE BROADCAST AND DISCUSSION
Thursday, February 25, 2021
5pm – Free admission
► Live on Dazibao’s Facebook page and Vidéographe’s YouTube channel
* The talk will happen in English, and will be accessible in ASL.
