Kerwin Barrington
Dance Artist
Kerwin Barrington
Dance Artist
Exploring the language of the body to inspire, connect and create meaningfull experiences.
Projects
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Danse Contemporaine III
with l'Université de Montréal
Seasons 2022/23 & 2023/24
This 6 month long workshop offers humans with a background in contemporary dance the opportunity to participate in a creative process to co-create a choreographic work. The weekly workshop includes a warm-up, technical exercises and improvisation, creation and interpretation exercises to fuel the creative process.
There is an emphasis on the creative and interpretative process where creative tasks are shared between dancers and choreographer in an open, inclusive approach. The choreography is presented as the first part of the end of year show, on the stage of the Centre d'essaie de l'Université de Montréal.
Synapse 2023/24
Suivre les racines pour trouver la terre
Chorégraphe
Kerwin Barrington
En collaboration avec:
Alicia Fex, Émilie Espagne, German Trujillo, Hortense Paquet
,Julie Sage, Lysanne Morissette, Mathilde Perahia, Marie Tissot,
Nicolas Couto, Raphaëlle Hébert, Roxanne Blanchette
Direction musicale
Anthony John Aboud
Musiciens
Anthony John Aboud, Simon Grenier
Œil extérieur
Marijoe Foucher
Œil intérieur
Corinne Skaff
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La création et l'apprentissage d'une danse sont un exercice de connexion avec les autres. Ce processus d'incarnation est une occasion d'apprendre sur soi-même et sur les façons d’entrer en relation.
La Tradition
La tradition est généralement définie comme ce qui perdure dans un groupe ou une collectivité par un ensemble d’usages ou de savoir-faire. Elle serait l’expression d’une culture, de l’esprit d’un peuple, de sa manière propre de vivre et de penser (Lenclub 1987).
La transmission des traditions est toujours une recréation ou une reconstruction créatrice; il n’y a jamais reproduction identique (Goody 1977).
Suivre les racines pour trouver la terre est un processus créatif qui émerge de certaines traditions de la danse dans la vallée de la rivière de Châteauguay, au sud-ouest du Québec, racines bien vivantes de Barrington. Ces danses se transforment par la transmission, par le passage du temps et par l'influence des racines des danseur.ses. Par ces rencontres, nous (re)créons de nouvelles traditions dansantes et musicales.
Alors que nous apprenons, vivons et incarnons ces traditions ensemble, que choisissons-nous? À quoi nous attachons-nous ? De quoi nous libérons-nous? Comment s’exprime et se révèle cette sous-culture Synapses 2023/2024?
Ensemble nous créons un espace intentionnel de co-création, laissons vivre la danse, la musique. Nous honorons nos ancêtres et nos racines multiples. Et là, nous nous souvenons que la danse était autrefois vie quotidienne. À quel point la danse fait partie du vivant, des corps. À quel point elle vit toujours en nous. Peut-être vivons-nous par elle…
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Dancing in the Hills
with Kerwin Barrington & Geneviève Dupui
2019-2022
Ripon, Hudson, Coteau du lac, Inverness, Cape Cod,
Abitibi and Saint Rose du Nord
What is it?
Dancing in the Hills is a nomadic dance project, exploring the relationship between movement, storytelling and territory.
The original impulse for this project was to develop long-lasting creative connections with nature and community through the practice of dance. Since then, this project has become not only an artistic project but a way of life, encouraging those who are interested to take the time to inhabit an environment in a profound way with an artistic sensibility. Since 2019, this nomadic project has occurred in various parts of Quebec, cultivating meaningful relationships with many local dance enthusiasts who have shown support, kindness and generosity along the way.
What Does Dancing Outside Bring?
Dancing in the Hills takes on many forms, such as:
1. The Workshop format
2. The Long Dance Walk format
3. Artistic Residency/Research format
4. Travelling Circuit format
Nature is wild and serene, and so am I- Ancient Sanskrit
Je me découvre devant vous, là.
(I am discovering myself in front of you, now)
(2017-2019)
Choreographed by Kerwin Barrington and Geneviève Dupuis
with
Aube Matte
Gaia Matte
Raphaelle Hébert
This 2 year creative process came from the desire to dive into the inner world of three teenage girls who had been dancing with me since they were 3-5 years old by going beyond the dance class conventions and teacher/student dynamics.
We were fortunate that at different times throughout the process, we spent intensive periods of time moving, creating and being together immersed in the world we were creating. Because of this, we were able to get to know each other as human beings, building trust and working with the dancers' lives as the material for the show. This brought a particularly intimate dimension and tone to the project.
The dancers were encouraged to collaborate in the creation of the work as well, helping make choices engaging with their artistic sensibilities and lived experience of the project. They were encouraged to be themselves, and to be aware of the constant transformation they were living, which would eventually become a part of the material.
The project ended in a week-long residency with a final showing held at the Coopérative Place du Marché in Ripon, Quebec. The local community as well as the team's loved ones were invited to witness a final sharing of a dance piece born out of this rich process together.
résidence- Pointe-du-Buisson / Québec Museum of Archeology (Pointe-du-Buisson/Musée québécois d'archéologie) and the Coopérative Place du Marché ,Ripon
Presentation/Sharing-
pointe du buisson 2018, Ripon -
la fin du projet avril 2019.
The Sound She Makes-Resonance
2017
Choreography Kerwin Barrington and Geneviève Dupuis
Costumes and Visual art Adele Reeves
with
Caitlin Palmer
Julie Chiariello
Terry Orlando
Tracy Eades
Adele Reeves
Tracey Mearns
Kerwin Barrington
Geneviève Dupuis
The Sound She Makes- Resonance, a dance project of 8 women in their 30s, 40s and 50s who met through Monday Night Dance class between 2008 and 2017. Over the course of 6 months, the dancers learned and abstracted a score of 12 directives which included a mix of words to be interpreted inspired by nature, the body and Donna Eden's energy medicine daily routines for energy healing.
This experience included a process of embodying and transforming this score to make it their own. The final showing on Friday May 5th 2017, at the Unbound Festival in Cape Cod U.S.A, revealed 7 inner worlds expressed through dance, visual art, light design and music.
The performance was a configuration of vibrant individual worlds co-existing in a common performance space in which the audience was invited to walk through and be immersed
in how they co-existed.
Fessenden Follies
November 2018
Choreography Kerwin Barrington
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