There is Room for one more dance

Winnipeg’s only African Contemporary Dance Company NAfro Dance will be showcasing its latest dance piece “There is room for one more dance” at the 24^th Annual International Association of Blacks in Dance (IABD) Conference and Festival in Toronto, Canada on January 26^th 2012. NAfro Dance will be sharing the stage with nine Canadian dance companies as well as dance companies from the US, UK, Germany, France, Grenada and Jamaica. Choreographed by NAfro’s Artistic Director Casimiro Nhussi, “There is room for one more dance” will feature nine talented Winnipeg artists; Casimiro Nhussi, Paula Blair, Helene Le Moullec Mancini, Nicole Coppens, Paige Lewis, Robyn Thomson Kacki, Jay Stoller, Cam MacLean and Ewingi B. Kiki. This is second time NAfro Dance performing at this international event. For more information of this festival visit www.danceimmersion.ca

Ur-sound
Or, the noise no writing can store
Mitchell Akiyama

January 20 – February 21, 2012
Regular hours: Tuesday – Saturday 11am-6pm

Join us for the opening on Friday, January 20 from 8pm to 12am.

Rainer Maria Rilke imagines running the needle of a phonograph along the coronal suture of a skull, an act he believes might release a primal sound, a phonographic inscription scrawled across the bones that had, until then, remained hidden and mute. The eighteenth century German physicist, Ernst Chladni discovers that acoustic vibrations cause patterns to form in the sand strewn across a metal plate, the delicate arabesques suggesting sound has a misunderstood materiality. Thomas Edison, slightly hard of hearing despite his young age, sits at his desk and bites down on the wooden mount supporting his prototype for a machine that can both record and play back sound. The bone structure of his teeth, jaw, and cranial cavities amplify the vibrations and restore some of the hearing that his ears no longer provide. Similarly, Ludwig van Beethoven, now all but deaf, bites into a wooden rod attached to the soundboard of his piano, accessing the tactile sonority of the instrument. Twentieth century seismologists convert the raw data of the movement of tectonic plates into sound in order to better understand the power of earthquakes. The quiet shivering of the earth occasionally displays a jagged spike on a computer screen, an event that sounds like a bomb. Continue reading →

NOTIFICATION OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
We take pleasure in notifying you of SAVAC’s Annual General Meeting, to be held on:

23 February 2012
at VMAC Gallery, 4th Floor (outside the SAVAC office, suite 450)
401 Richmond St. W., Toronto ON M5V 3A8

We would appreciate if you could make every effort to attend this important event in our calendar.
Please RSVP to info@savac.net or 416-542-1661.

6:00pm Meet and greet with SAVAC team and members

6:30pm AGM begins Continue reading →