Apprehension toward technology and some local weirdness will combine at an upcoming Battlefords Community Players Clubhouse performance.
Free Flow Dance Theatre of Saskatoon is collaborating with local author and musician Cliff Burns to present the modern dance piece, The Atlas Figment, at Battlefords Community Players Clubhouse on June 28 and 29.
Burns is a local full-time author and dedicates, he said, 鈥渙ne per cent鈥� of his creative energy to music, as a way to 鈥渂reak free between projects.鈥�
He makes music with a MIDI keyboard and layers sounds and spacey effects.
鈥淢y music is about my fears of this mechanical future and AI is taking over and us becoming less than human, and maybe even enslaved by technology,鈥� Burns said.
Free Flow Dance Theatre put out a call for music a few years ago, and Burns sent in some music. Burns said the dance company 鈥渃ame up with these stunning pieces.鈥�
Free Flow Dance Theatre has produced a variety of shows over the years, referencing a variety of themes and using a number of music genres.
Past performances have included contemporary ballet, dance set to oboes, bassoons, violins and post-punk, and dance featuring helium balloons and large elastic bands.
鈥淪omehow [Free Flow] intuitively found the narrative or the concept within my spacey music and there鈥檚 this sense of weightlessness鈥� to performances he鈥檚 seen using his music, Burns said.
鈥淭hey somehow got those misgivings and that disquiet from the pieces and created these incredible dance concepts,鈥� Burns said.
Burns said he knows nothing about modern dance, but 鈥淛ackie [Latendresse of Free Flow Dance Theatre] and the gals completely won me over.鈥�
Burns said he鈥檚 a Boston Bruins fan, yet encourages people to come out to the upcoming show because it鈥檚 likely many people haven鈥檛 experienced such a performance before.
鈥淚t really is like a science fiction movie that was never made,鈥� Burns said, adding he鈥檚 thrilled 鈥渢o have them come do this in my little home town here.鈥�
Tickets are $20. June 29 will feature a workshop with Newton Moraes, a Brazilian choreographer and a creator of dance-theatre.
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