“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
'Note the Weather' is a contemporary dance for outdoor public space. The piece provides a frame through which to notice beauty in simple, everyday things. Dancers accompanied by a live musician zoomed in on intimate details of the everyday. Using simple images, gestures movements and shapes, they provided an invitation to notice, observe and reflect on personal relationships to self, others, and the surrounding environment, highlighting the architecture of space and bodies.
Performers and audience members were invited to slow down, tune into, and respond to the immense beauty and specialness of everyday things - our neighbourhoods, the natural world, the people around us.
For a little peak at some snippets from the performances, click here. Thanks to Brad Brown from Upside Brown Production Services for putting together this clip (2:55)
See more information about the piece and other work by choreographer Mairéad Filgate here.
From August 6 to 10, the work was presented in different settings across Haliburton County - at Haliburton Rotary Summerfest, the Haliburton School of Art and Design, the Haliburton Village Square and the Village Green in Minden.
Click to read about the performers:
We are grateful for funding from:
Thank you very much to our site hosts:
Rotary Club of Haliburton, Fleming College – Haliburton School of Art + Design, Haliburton Sculpture Forest, Royal LePage Lakes of Haliburton. Township of Minden Hills
Photo credits: Myra Stephen
