June 21, 2010 – LSR – 7:30PM & 10PM – Where The River Got The Water

Little Bang Creations

WHERE THE RIVER GOT THE WATER

I could never remember where I was going in the world. But when I cut open a rabbit and ate him and his memories, I knew to follow the river. When you are going back, you know where you are going, so I didn’t worry. The world was bigger because I recalled where I had been, and could dream of what lay in front of me.

Where the River got the Water is a performance inspired by our consciousness of time and the path forged of both destruction and creation, in the push to move forever forward.

Concept: March Hutchinson, Hanako Hoshimi-Caines, James Irwin
Dance: Hanako Hoshimi-Caines, Louise-Michel Jackson-Millet, Soula Trougakos
Music: Katie Moore, Matthew Woodman, Brad Barr
Sound Design: Nicholas Basque
Design: March Hutchinson
Story: James Irwin

Little Bang Creations is at the root a dancer, a visual artist and a writer.
We’re a company that creates spectacles and objects combining our mediums in collaboration with others. We’re interested in how each craft sits on, and holds up the other, and causes us to accomplish things we wouldn’t otherwise do.
Within Little Bang we place dance, visual art, and poetry in new contexts to be appreciated by larger, or at least different, audiences. By blending these forms with theatre, design, story, and particularly pop music we tend to make the esoteric more accessible, and put some new pants on the accessible.
We’re together because these mediums make a very sharp combination, and so do we.

Hanako Hoshimi-Caines
Hanako studies, works and does her own thing as a dancer.
She studied at L’École Supérieure de Danse du Québec, the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon, from which she graduated in 2001.
Her professional career began with a diverse range of companies and independent choreographers, such as the Caravan Stage Barge Company (traveling theater ship), Ohio Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens and choreographer Louis-Martin Charest. In 2003, she joined the company Cas Public (Hélène Blackburn) with whom she worked until 2006. Since then she has worked as an independent dancer with choreographers Jane Mappin, Emmanuel Jouthe (Carpe Diem), Edgar Zendejas (Ezdanza) and Louis-Martin-Charest. Hanako joined José Navas/company Flak for the creation of “S” in February of 2008.
In 2007 and 2008 Hanako undertook two personal projects of great significance to her: the creation of Little Bang Theory her first full length piece which led to the formation of Little Bang Creations with March and James; and a mentorship project with Ireland-based Fabulous Beast Dance Theater as well as Ted Stoffer, dancer and choreographer for Les Ballets C de la B.
Little Bang Creations gives her the opportunity to explore possibilities of storytelling within dance, something she’s very interested in, and work on other things like putting books together and creating work with different groups of people that she otherwise wouldn’t have the chance to do.

James Irwin
James writes songs, poems, and stories.
He is currently working on an album with his band my people sleeping; a solo album of songs under the name mamatschi; a book of stories about semi-ridiculous explorers; a book of poems titled I want this Job Naming Colours; and the libretto for a musical theatre piece called Olivia with songwriter Katherine Peacock and The Coal Choir, which he sings in.
He studied creative writing and literature at Concordia University and also holds down a very strange job writing for websites which has taught him that lying online is ok— to be moral you just have to do it creatively.
James is also working on the folk tale A Colour Like Orange with March as the illustrator, with whom he has already created The Famous Explorer of the 21st Century.
James thinks of Little Bang as a fancy way out of his own head, a chance to collaborate with these beautiful people, a total challenge and expansion of his creativity, and a way to be involved in live productions, which he loves.

March Hutchinson
March is a painter, illustrator and designer.
She’s good with her hands, making whatever is necessary certain to be beautiful, or not if need be! March grew up on the Caravan Farm Theatre, with music, horses and story informing her imagination. Since moving to Montreal and completing her BFA at Concordia University she’s acquired diverse work experience in both her personal painting practice, illustration, theatre design and props for film.
March is delighted to work with the other fine members of Little Bang, lending her creative sensibility and practical know-how to the development of new multi-disciplinary works. She feels honored to be part of such a beautiful collaborative team.

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