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Prism: An Aural and Visual Kaleidoscope

Last night my daughter and I had an opportunity to take in the premiere showing of PRISM thanks to Lisa Mennell of The Cultch. It exceeded both our expectations. Walking into the Historic Theatre on time for the show to start at 7:30pm, we found our seats and the lights dimmed. Suddenly, the spotlight opened on a cluster of five performers huddled together in the middle of a mirrored triangle positioned centrally on stage. The stage set, lighting, and clothing designs were simple, yet, highly effective. The five vertical mirrors acted as echoes of the performer’s bodies creating a Picasso effect for the viewers. Various angles of the troupe would be displayed in each choreographed movement. The clothing choices of monochromatic primary and secondary palate colours created a brilliant visual display as the performers weaved their bodies back and forth; in and out together.

The Performance

My daughter commented at one point, “This reminds me of the contact dance, I do every week, mom!”. For what little I know about this new form of dance movement amongst Millennials, I had to agree. We were hypnotized by the exquisitely refined intertwining of movements as the lights shone down on the red, yellow, blue, green, and orange bodies. The one-hour performance, no intermission, ended with a standing ovation. The dancers successfully manipulated the mirrors and their bodies to finalize the show with the audience reflected in the final dance montage. It was brilliant!

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Tentacle Tribe PRISM_Photo-by-Do-Phan-Hoi

The Experience

After the show, Samantha and I went back to the Cultch’s lounge. Shortly afterward, the performers and choreographers entered the space for conversation and feedback. Talking with Elon Hogland, (choreographer/dancer) Emmanuelle Le Phan (choreographer), and Valmont Harnois (dancer), I heard about their many years of hip hop, butoh, martial arts, and performance art. All of these have culminated in this current tour. It truly was a Kaleidoscope, for the audiences’ senses as well as the performer’s experiences. Ultimately, the small amount of time and money I spent would resonate with me long after the show ended.

Final Words

Speaking of time, this will be the shows’ second-to-last stop before they travel back home to Quebec.  Make sure to capture this brilliant spectacle of performance art at the Cultch Historic Theatre in Vancouver, BC, which features them to October 27th. They will finalize their tour in Kelowna, BC on October 30th at the Mary Irwin Theatre.

In early 2025, See Change Makers will talk to Elon and Emmanuelle of the Tenacle Tribe in detail about PRISM and other endeavors, so stay tuned.  

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Waking up to the New Realities

In the recent podcast on See Change MAKERS, we explored the idea of collective housing. In these communities, many people collaborate by sharing their skills to better a home life environment. During the COVID-19 crisis, we have learned how important working together as a global community can make on finding answers to big issues such as learning from what other countries do to curb a virus that has no boundaries; wash hands with soap and water; social distance and stay home. However, meeting challenges by isolating and ignoring the situation, means matters will worsen as seen by countries such as the United States. The US administration initially applied denial then took a hands-off approach when helping their state senators and citizens mitigate the crisis. Now, they have the greatest number of cases, globally.   

Meanwhile, the World Health Organization states in their current healthy green recovery manifesto, we need to work together to climb out of this crisis in a conscious and thoughtful way. The guide outlines six key points to enable a healthy and safe green recovery. They are:

  1. Protect and preserve the source of human health: Nature
  2. Invest in essential services, from water and sanitation to clean energy in healthcare facilities.
  3. Ensure a quick healthy energy transition.
  4. Promote healthy, sustainable food systems.
  5. Build healthy, liveable cities.
  6. Stop using taxpayers money to fund pollution.
World Health Organization’s “Prescription for a healthy & green COVID-19 recovery” published May 29th, 2020

The WHO also establishes that when we put our energies towards the betterment of humanities, health and welfare, people will listen to create the needed changes. Currently, global scientists, researchers, various companies and organizations plus health care providers are working together collectively to come up with a vaccine as well as interim preventative measures.

Collaboration in the sciences is nothing new. Peer-reviewed journals are a mainstay for all scientific research. It is necessary and mandatory to have research reviewed by your peers to look at the pitfalls or other peripheral circumstances that may not have been considered during research. This is practiced in universities, hospitals, and many other established public research institutions. Collaboration and cooperation are also important in the field of technology and business. Much of the day to day computer-related tasks are based on these foundations in their very application. Consider Google, one of the most popular search engines with a stunning 87.35% market share. Google hosts a variety of collaborating resources such as Google Drive, Docs & Meet to name a few. Each of these offer platforms in which others can contribute and/or share information. Whether it is health, technology, business, or education, we live in a society that at its foundation requires some form of collaboration.

Commons-Based Peer Production produced by P2Pvalue & designed by Laura Recio

The World Health Organization invites you to contribute your Big Idea to shape the future of training and learning in achieving better health for all.

CONTRIBUTE YOUR IDEAS BY CLICKING HERE

The next phase in human evolution anticipates our ability to work together for the common good for us all. This leads us to the consideration of the next global industrial revolution, which will be discussed during See Change MAKERS’ next BLOG installment.

Please stay tuned in…