Montreal-based contemporary dancer and choreographer Nate Yaffe plans something different for Vancouver culture buffs. In faith hole, Yaffe plans to discard Eurocentric, heteronormative, and neurotypical patterns.
According to plastic orchid factory, which is presenting faith hole, Yaffe will “reveal true queer expression in an interaction that favours a non-transaction exchange between audience and performer”. Moreover, the Vancouver company describes the solo show as a “love letter” to queer, dancer, and neurodivergent communities.
“I go into the Matrix to mourn my inherited dreams,” Yaffe says in a plastic orchid factory news release. “They were a technology of control over my body. This wake is a dance.”
Then, he adds: “No self-image. I lean into forwardness, revel in aloneness.”
As part of the Presentation Series, plastic orchid factory will present faith hole at 7 p.m. next Friday (October 25) and Saturday (October 26). The entire series takes place at Left of Main (211 Keefer Street, 2nd floor).
Bleu Neon will be part of PuSh festival.
The second installment is Bleu Neon. Kim San Châu performs her solo show entirely in a squat. According to the Montreal artist’s website, this position represents “a cultural, political and aesthetic symbol of Asian being”.
“Bleu Neon navigates between fantasized nostalgia, language loss and sexual objectification—all three widely experienced by Asian diasporic populations,” the website states
The PuSh International Performing Arts Festival will co-present Bleu Neon at 8:30 p.m. on January 28 and 29. That will be followed at 4:30 p.m. on January 30 and noon on February 1 by Left of PuSh, which showcases “experiments-in-progress” by different dance artists.
The final piece in the Presentation Series will be James Kudelka’s Half an Hour of Our Time. According to plastic orchid factory, it’s a 30-minute duet “primarily influenced by Jean Cocteau and Francis Poulenc’s one-act opera, La voix humane”.
“Performed in silence, this duet for a woman and a man is dense with incident,” the company states. “Everything that has bound this couple is now unraveling before us.”
For tickets to faith hole and information about plastic orchid factory’s 2024-25 season, visit the website. Follow Pancouver on X @PancouverMedia and on Instagram @PancouverMedia.
