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 PREMIER

NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE
SOUTHAM HALL

SEPTEMBER 10 / 11  2024
OTTAWA > CANADA

SUPPORT:

NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE
CIRCUIT-EST CENTRE CHORÉGRAPHIQUE 
SALLE PIERRE MERCURE

CREDITS

Artistic Direction: Andrea Peña
Choreography and 
Creative Concept: AP&A
Music Director and Conductor: Alexander Shelley

Electronic Music Composer: Eƨƨe Ran

Music: Alexander Shelley with the National Arts Centre Orchestra and Eƨƨe Ran

Photography and Video: Edward Burtynsky

ANDREA PEÑA & ARTISTS

Performers: Gabrielle Kachan, Jontae McCrory, Jo Laïny Trozzo-Mounet, Francois Richard, Rebecca Margolick, James Phillips, Erin O'loughlin, James Viveiros, Justin Calvadores, Brianna Lombardo

Projection Design: Bobby León

Lighting Design: Hugo Dalphond
Scenography: Jonathan Saucier
Producer: Isabella Salas 
Rehearsal Director: Helen Simard
Technical Director: Vladimir Cara
Video Chief: Gabriel Ranon
Digital Asset Coordination and Consultation: Jim Panou
Production Consultant: Marcus Schubert

Communications and Logistics: Polina Boltova

Production Agent: Isaïe Richard
Promotional Photography: Augustina Isidori, Jeanne Tétreault, Bobby León & Jonathan Auger, Rodolfo Rueda, Fatine-Violette Sabiri
Promotional Video Direction: Bobby León

Promotional Video - Director of Photography: Jonathan Auger

Documentary Video: Agustina Isidori

 

With support from EDWARD BURTYNSKY STUDIO

Producer: Julia Johnston

Director of finance: Connie Hitzeroth
Head of Business Affairs: Julia Johnston
Director of Studio Operations and Gallery Relations: Karen Machtinger
Project Coordinator, Field Producer: Jim Panou
Director of Publications, Exhibitions & Special Projects: Marcus Schubert
Studio Manager: McKenzie Grey
Archivist & Manager of Production: Paul Sergeant
Media & Communications Manager, Production Coordinator, Special Projects: Alanna Smith

NATIONAL ARTS CENTER

Executive Producer (NAC): Caroline Ohrt

Senior Producer (NAC Dance): Tina Legari

Managing Director (NACO): Nelson McDougall

Senior Manager of Artistic Planning (NACO): Daphne Burt

Production Manager: Alex Gazale

Festival Manager (SPHÈRE): David Gazaille

UAQUE is an NAC DANCE and NAC-ORCHESTRA

co-commission.

Andrea Pena & Artists has received support from:

Conseil des arts du Canada

Conseil Des Arts et Lettres du Québec

Conseil des Arts de Montréal

UAQUE

UAQUE

UAQUE is an interdisciplinary collaboration that intersects the radical choreographic universe of Andrea Peña & Artists with the evocative landscapes of Canadian photographer Edward Burynsky, in order to reflect on the anthropocene within a performative event. The seminal landscapes of Burtynsky, which capture the environmental catastrophes of human industrialization on the earth, are woven visually into this transgressive performance to question our interconnected relationship with the landscapes we have scared. 

 

Accompanied by the live presence of the National Arts Centre Orchestra in dialogue with electronic music composer, Eƨƨe Ran, ten performers are juxtaposed against the magnitude of Burtynsky’s images which viscerally reflect onto the audience our globalized effects on the land. The performers, stripped bare, embody both meditative and resilient states through the vulnerability of their own flesh, as they welcome us into nuanced reflections, a place of communion between humanity and the scarred earth. 

 

UAQUE is an interwoven symphony with 80 performers, who merge multiple artistic mediums, share with us a visceral call to action, to prompt collective transformation. A work that does not offer a definitive solution to the scale of our epoch, rather prompts us through Peña’s indigenous Colombian heritage to reconsider union and unity, leveling the human and non human form. UAQUE challenges the myth of human superiority, laying bare the consequences of our separation from the natural world through searching for a state of union, as referenced by the title meaning KIN, relative, neighbor, friend in Peña’s ancestral indigenous Muisca language. 

 

As we confront the devastating consequences of our actions, UAQUE proposes a transformative reflection in perspective—a recognition of our intrinsic connection to the earth as a collective ritual.

OTTAWA,
CANADA
NAPLES,

UNITED STATES
 

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