July 8 -17, 2016
19th ROMP!
FESTIVAL of DANCE
This year's 19th ROMP! FESTIVAL OF DANCE premieres Joshua Beamish's solo collection LONE WOLF; unleashes Meagan O’Shea's Occupy-inspired WE DON’T NEED ANOTHER HERO; features an international cast of dancers and writers in our returning series PRESENT/TENSE 10 topped off with CAKE ON THE STAGE; introduces a new, free outdoor program ROMP! IN THE PARK in Beacon Hill Park; plus we'd like you to meet our 2016 ROMP! Artist-in-Residence Hyoseung Ye from Seoul, South Korea.
July 9, 2016 @ 7pm
JOSHUA BEAMISH LONE WOLF
Audience favourite Joshua Beamish returns to Victoria with 3 new solo works created by Beamish, Vancouver’s Noam Gagnon of The Holy Body Tattoo/Company Vision Impure and Toronto’s Ame Henderson of Public Recordings.
July 9, 2016 @ 9pm
MEAGAN O'SHEA
WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER HERO
Inspired by the Occupy movement, We Don't Need Another Hero is part performance, part communal catharsis, part experiential spectacle.
July 10, 2016 @ 7pm
WRITERS & DANCERS
PRESENT/TENSE 10
Our returning program PRESENT/TENSE 10 is a dance/word laboratory celebrating the power and risk of collaboration.
This year's program features an international cast of dancers, from Victoria, Vancouver, Toronto, and Seoul.
DANCERS:
JOSHUA BEAMISH
DAVID FERGUSON
NOAM GAGNON
HOYEON KIM
MIN JIN KIM
WALTER KUBANEK
MEAGAN O'SHEA
KATE FRANKLIN
ANDREA ROBYN BAYNE
HYOSEUNG YE
WRITERS:
BARBARA BLACK
FABIENNE CALVERT FILTEAU
YVONNE OWENS
JACOB RICHMOND
JANET ROGERS
ANN-BERNICE THOMAS
CHARLES TIDLER
