Fluid Movement Arts Festival
Explore your dance curiosity with Springboard Performance
- Price: $15 - $120
Asking Calgarians to be moved, curious, and fluid, Springboard Performance’s annual Fluid Movement Arts Festival is a must for those looking for a new experience.
Each year the Fluid Fest brings artists and audiences together for a celebration of contemporary art, dance, and physical performance. With artists from across Canada gathering in Calgary for performances, workshops, artist talks, and happenings to inspire and connect, this year’s lineup is certainly mesmerizing.
So what are we checking out? Here are our not-to-be-missed events of the festival:
Prairie Dance Circuit
October 18 & 19, 2017
DJD Dance Centre (111 12th Ave. SE)
$30
Calgary’s Nicole Mion, Regina’s Robin Poitras, and Edmonton’s Brian Webb have each created a new piece for a local performer who intrigues and inspires them—anything is possible.
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Thus Spoke…
October 18 – 21, 2017
Theatre Junction GRAND (608 1st St. SW)
$20 – $40
Defying convention while shifting from scathing diatribe to rock and roll polemic, Montreal’s Frédérick Gravel and Étienne Lepage present a philosophically charming show that challenges the status quo.
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Triple Bill
October 27 & 28, 2017
DJD Dance Centre (111 12th Ave. SE)
$30
Featuring How long can we do this for, Submission to Entropy, and It Began With Watching, these idiosyncratic group works by Western Canadian groups include Calgary’s own kloetzel&co.
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Dancing Difference
October 27 & 28, 2017
DJD Dance Centre (111 12th Ave. SE)
$20
Celebrating creative voices from across the country who are exploring the potential of inclusive performance, this co-production from Inside Out Theatre is certain to be a highlight of the festival.
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Physical Therapy Cabaret
October 27 & 28, 2017
DJD Dance Centre (111 12th Ave. SE)
$20
Featuring local artists and national guests, the Physical Therapy Cabaret returns with a night of tiny stage spectacle and controlled chaos that you can’t prepare for.
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I Eat You Tzavta
October 28, 2017, 5:00pm
St. Louis Hotel (430 8 Ave. SE)
$55
Preserve, persevere, or be eaten—Springboard Performance’s Artistic Director and choreographer Nicole Mion and Tzavta mastermind Michal Lavi have teamed up to offer this unique evening. A dance performance, discussion, and dinner made especially for Tzavta, the piece asks you to consider transformation in terms of food, the natural world, and performance.
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Fluid Movement Arts Festival runs October 18 to 28, 2017. Tickets and schedule can be found at fluidfest.com.
