2018
Dialogue Extended
As anyone who runs a family business knows, it’s not always easy to leave work in the office and not bring it home! This is especially true in the performing arts, where many marital love boats have ended up broken on the reefs of great expectations—to later pick up the pieces and create magic on the stage.
In Dialogue Extended, traditional female/male roles are challenged as the domestic gets in the way of the artistic. Intertwining artistic, relational and personal facets of our respective engagement in flamenco art, the performance is conceived as a six-part dialogue between three couples at opposite stages of their professional careers and an intergenerational exchange of shifting views in movement. The artists re-visit their shared experience as they try to find the balance between their domestic and artistic lives.
2015
Quadrilogue Affective
Intertwining artistic, relational and personal facets of their respective engagement in flamenco art, Quadrilogue Affective is conceived as a four-part dialogue between two couples at opposing stages of their professional careers.
As intergenerational exchange of shifting views in movement, this paradigmatic work brings together Rosario Ancer & Victor Kolstee and Mariano Cruceta & Caroline Planté, presenting multiple intercrossing narratives questioning the established roles, attributes and vectors of the creation of the form, while setting the stage for an intimate, inspiring and accessible discourse about countless reversals of life: the past and future, femininity and masculinity, corporeality and musicality, togetherness and solitude in creating—in being.
As intergenerational exchange of shifting views in movement, this paradigmatic work brings together Rosario Ancer & Victor Kolstee and Mariano Cruceta & Caroline Planté, presenting multiple intercrossing narratives questioning the established roles, attributes and vectors of the creation of the form, while setting the stage for an intimate, inspiring and accessible discourse about countless reversals of life: the past and future, femininity and masculinity, corporeality and musicality, togetherness and solitude in creating—in being.
2013
La Monarca
La Monarca reflects on Rosario Ancer’s movement between Mexico, Spain, and Canada, exploring the immigrant experience and connecting it to the autumn pilgrimage of monarch butterflies. The monarch’s cycle of life and constant migration informs this performance.
La Monarca is a very personal work: emotional, and resonant with the meaning of my life. It ties into many elements that I have been interested in developing over the years, growing from diverse inspirations, small experiments, past collaborations, and even some large successes on my journey. I look at these antecedents, seeing some that grew, unexpectedly, from small ideas—a minor movement and a vision just glimpsed—brought together into this new work, emergent, beautiful and unexpected: the butterfly effect.
2008
Mis Hermanas
Mis Hermanas tells the personal story and recalls the memories of Rosario Ancer growing up in Mexico... her dreams of becoming a dancer, her journey to Spain and her arrival in Vancouver, Canada. Through narratives, dance, sound effects, stills and video projections, the audience is taken on a journey from Mexico to Spain to Canada. Flamenco Rosario breaks new and exciting ground: recreating a profile of each sister through the magic of a child’s memory, through music and dance, and exploring the journey to other countries, cultures and times.
Mis Hermanas, which is tied to contemporary Mexican, Spanish and Canadian culture, received critical acclaim when it premiered in 2008. The production was awarded a 2009 Isadora Award for Excellence in Choreography and toured Mexico in 2010, including dates in the renowned Teatro de la Danza del Instituto National de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. Mis Hermanas was also selected as part of Made in BC’s 2012–13 season of contemporary dance and toured to venues in Nanaimo, Whitehorse, Kelowna and Golden.
Head Office
Level 6
Scotia Bank Dance Center
677 Davie Street
Vancouver BC V6B 2G6
Contact
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(604) 428-29
