Movers and Shakers: A New Cabaret
Movers and Shakers: A New Cabaret
7 PM | Doors
7:30 | Event
Cost | $15 or best offer
Mile Zero Dance is hosting a new incubation Cabaret called Movers and Shakers, curated by Josh Languedoc. In these challenging times, the body knows all and the body can express what text cannot.
Every second month, beginning in July, come be a part of this new Cabaret series that highlights movement based art pieces and cross-disciplinary collaborations. Featuring a variety of artists, this exciting new series will be a fun way to welcome audiences into Mile Zero Dance’s new space and experience a series of multiple new art pieces.
Join us for the launch of Movers and Shakers on Saturday, July 15!
Featuring work from artists:
Erin Pettifor | The Dusty Rose
Yuliia Tvorilova | Personal Things/What I Carry
Bukunmi Oyewole
Allara Gooliaff | Discovery
Sara Campos-Silvius | The Inner Ring
Jarome Flamand | Piano Set
Kathleen Hughes
DJ Bad Sumeritan (aka Brett Mckenzie)
Featuring
Josh Languedoc
“Originally called The Dirt Buffet Cabaret, this new cabaret, titled Movers and Shakers is all
about breathing new life into art and our current world. As we navigate a radically rapid changing landscape, art is the best way to respond to the world around us. Often, the body knows the truth. This new cabaret series, with alternating themes each time, showcases new and daring works by a variety of artists. Meant to be an incubation process for artists to explore themes of societal change and embodied empowerment, this cabaret will feature movement pieces,
solo pieces, and cross-disciplinary explorations between artists.
Erin Pettifor
Erin Pettifor (she/her) is an emerging queer theatre artist based in Amiskwaciwâskahikan/ Edmonton. She is thrilled to be hitting the Edmonton fringe stage this summer with the premiere of her solo comedy show Stigma, Pistil and Style in a (Wee Witches and Erin Pettifor Company in partnership with Toy Guns Dance). Erin toured in Larrikin Entertainment's new musical, WYRD to the Yukon and Victoria this past spring. In the fall of 2022, Erin jumped into the Soloss cohort, a network of individuals who bear witness to community members' experiences of loss and co-create artistic rituals for healing. She has co-created and performed multiple physical theatre pieces for various festivals including The Dusty Rose (Nextfest Dancefest 2022), Minor Pains: Prental Piercing and Other Pregnancy Prep (Play the Fool Emerging Artist Triple Bill 2019, and Lady Be Good (Play the Fool Rookie Cabaret 2018). Erin has performed in the Edmonton International Fringe Festival numerous times and with several independent theatre companies. She graduated from the University of Alberta’s BFA Acting program in 2018 and from Red Deer College’s Theatre Performance and Creation Program in 2015.
Bukunmi Oyewole
Bukunmi Oyewole is a travel and documentary photographer whose works primarily spotlights present day realities in Africa, so that future generations can experience Africa through his pictures. One of his many dreams is to travel round the world, capturing astonishing moments with his camera.
His passion for photography and striking pictorial skills has earned him features in different magazines and exhibitions.
He was a member of the jury for the Wikipedia Photo Competition tagged "Wiki Loves Africa 2021." He is also a member of the African Photojournalism Database (APJD), a project of the World Press Photo Foundation and Everyday Africa. He was a 2021 creative fellow at Amplify HQ, a COVID HQ Africa project. He was a recipient of Lakehead Arts Integrated Research Awards 2022 from Lakehead University, an award granted to artists for exemplary art as research and art as education. He was a fellow at Africa24Media Storytelling Fellowship 2022. He was a recipient of RCE Recognition Award for Acknowledged Artwork, for the 2022 RCE Youth Biodiversity Art Challenge conducted by the Global RCE Service Centre at the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability in partnership with UNESCO.
Bukunmi is a lover of books and anything travels.
Jarome Flamand
18 year old self taught pianist. Previously Performed as a solo artist on fringe festival livestream, aboriginal day Edmonton, the heart of the city music festival, and the earth day celebration convention 2022!
Allara Gooliaff
I'm a stiltdance explorer. Stilts are a medium by which I explore the ether between the earth and the sky. Stiltdance can be at once acrobatic and totally puzzling. I like to play with the exaggeration of an unbroken line, strong geometric shapes, and flexibility. I like to take these things to extremes, make it a tiny bit awkward, throw in a stumble or a fall, a beautiful high kick that does not stay suspended in the air but lands with a slight thud. I am motivated by my musical choices so composition length and genre often holds the legs and sets my choreographic frame but softness and gristle comes from my stubborn will to push the boundaries of my physicality.
I am the AD of a dance education company called called Three Left Feet. It is based out of Moh'kins'tis | Calgary . I am also the newly appointed AD for the Movement Research Festival at the University of Calgary. I love circus and dance and theatre and music and visual art and wish there was more time for better, bigger conversations. Big thanks to Mile Zero Dance for supporting my independent dance creations.
Discovery, the name of this piece, is the joy of movement I’m looking for that is just beyond what is currently my possible.
Kathleen Hughes
Kathleen Hughes, originally from Edmonton, Alberta, began her love of dance with ballet training at an early age. She was later introduced to Modern dance while attending a dance program at Grant McEwan College. Ms. Hughes then completed her modern dance studies at The School of the Toronto Dance Theatre. In 1999, Ms. Hughes co-founded a dance collective called The Aurora Dance Community. During this time she had extensively produced, choreographed, and performed for this professional collective for five years. Since 2005 Kathleen has been teaching and choreographing for a variety of dancers from beginners through to professional level. Her love of creating dances has brought her to produce and co-produce, choreograph and perform in many dance productions for Niagara Dance Company, KHDA and several independent projects. Kathleen is very excited to perform this work-in- progress piece at MZDs Movers and Shakers Cabaret.
Yuliia Tvorilova
I'm a performer and a choreographer from Ukraine. I was born and became me in the Ukrainian city of Odesa, on the Black Sea. I am crazy about performing art and movement of the human body. I love exploring human nature. The relationship between people, the communication of bodies and views are the greatest source of inspiration for me.
I appeared in Edmonton three months ago, and frankly, I'm starting to build my life at zero. It is as if you (I) were learning to breathe differently, to look, to walk and to dance. However, I have many interesting things behind my back that could start a new reality here. And now I seek my place under this sky.
Bad Sumeritan (Brett Mckenzie)
Bad Sumeritan (aka Brett Mckenzie) is a beatmaker and DJ/Turntablist specializing in the curation and live performance of sample-based music. He has been a practicing audio professional and performance artist for over 20 years and is based in Edmonton, Alberta. With an artistic practice focused on cultivating and maintaining the culture of sound, Bad Sumeritan always comes prepared to help set the tone with proper vibes and a deep selections.
Sara Campos-Silvius
Sara Campos-Silvius (she/her) is a queer and multiracial Latine artist creating work in prose, poetry, theatre, and film. Sara loves to explore off the beaten path and her works run the gamut of comedy to horror, delivered with her signature imagination and a heartfelt insight into the oft-absurd human condition. Sara’s short films Power Chord and The Inner Ring have screened at the Edmonton International Film Festival, Toronto International Women Film Festival, Image+Nation Queer Short Film Festival, Dance: Made in Canada, FAVA Fest, Nextfest, and the Art Gallery of Alberta. Her playwright production credits include the award-winning comedy-horror Moonie And Maybee Dig Up A Grave at Nextfest. She is a participant in the 2023 Alberta Playwrights’ Network RBC Emerging Artists Playwright Mentorship Program. Her first poetry chapbook Sword and Smoke is published by Armistice Press and her short fiction and poetry have appeared in Capital City Press Anthology, Quagmire Magazine, Hungry Zine, and yegzine. She has also performed with the integrated disability arts dance company CRIPSiE since 2013. Sara is currently based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in Treaty 6 Territory.