Suddenly Dance Theatre presents

Miles Lowry and David Ferguson
featuring Jung-ah Chung

Saturday Jan 27, 2007
Featuring Giorgio Magnanensi
As part of the Victoria Symphony's New Currents Festival of Music

January 13 - 22, 2005
featuring Eclipse Quartet

Sunday, Feb 6, 2005
featuring
Steve Gibson
as part of Interactive Futures presented by the 11th annual Victoria Film & Video Festival

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NATURE ECSTASY is a new video and installation of multimedia artworks created by Suddenly Dance Theatre collaborators Miles Lowry and David Ferguson.

At the centre of NATURE ECSTASY is the premiere of a video featuring dancers Ferguson and Jung-ah Chung. The video uses invented environments and actual locations in nature to create illusions of place inhabited by the dancers. Aspects of the video were made in Ireland, New Mexico, Victoria, and also shot using blue screen, allowing the dancers to inhabit a geographic collage. As a duo, Ferguson and Chung are an exotic physical and kinetic combination. NATURE ECSTASY embraces our ecstatic love of nature, expressed through sensation, manifestation, symbolism, relationship and heroism.

NATURE ECSTASY facilitates the creation of original music as it is a silent film made for live musical interpretation. This provides the opportunity to collect musical compositions throughout the video’s existence. As our first experimental laboratory, the video will premiere with a live musical performance by the L.A. based Eclipse Quartet.

The video is approximately 24 minutes long and will be screened with Eclipse Quartet for 2 performances only on Thursday, January 13th @ 7pm & 9pm.

Open during gallery hours, the installation will include properties used in the video process. This includes artworks by Lowry and Ferguson made through digital video, photo-arts, painting and sculpture. The installation focuses on interpreting media, dance and its influence in our response to nature.

Ferguson and Lowry recently worked together creating the video design for the live stage production of Crystal Pite’s/Lynda Raino’s A CONVERSATION for The Victoria Dance Series. Their next cinematic collaboration OPIUM will be seen on BRAVO! and ARTV in 2005/2006.