WESTERN FRONT – Terminal City Dance Workshop

Description:

Terry Hunter, Karen Rimmer, and Savannah Walling of the avant-garde collective Terminal City Dance led a three-day movement workshop at Western Front.

They concluded the series with a performance of five dance works that included both solo and collaborative pieces.

Two dancers are seated on the floor leans against each other. One of them has their knees propped up and reclines down onto the other dancer. The dance studio has wooden floors, walls with wainscoting, and a radiator in the back.

A dancer stretches their arms to either side of themselves with their knees bent and torso shifted to the right side of the image. The dancer next to them, kneels on the floor with one leg stretched back and their right arm extending to the other dancer's neck. Their other arm extends out to the right side of the image.

Two dancers creep across a dance floor. The dancer at the front bends down and the other trails behind as they point towards them, while looking to the right of the image.

A dancer coils around a tall cone-like sculpture. Their knees are bent and they overlap their hands over top of it. The dance studio around them has wooden floors, walls with wainscoting, and a radiator in the back.

A dancer bends down and stretches their leg to put tights on, on their left side there is a small stool and on the right is a small table.

A dancer sits on a small stool, as they perch over a small table. The dance studio around them has wooden floors, walls with wainscoting, and a radiator in the back.

A dancer lies on the floor with one of their legs bent in the air and their right arm sprawled out. The dance studio around them has wooden floors, walls with wainscoting, and a radiator in the back.

Captions:

Karen Rimmer and Terry Hunter performing at Western Front, photo documentation, Feb 8, 1980.
Karen Rimmer and Terry Hunter performing at Western Front, photo documentation, Feb 8, 1980.
Karen Rimmer and Terry Hunter performing at Western Front, photo documentation, Feb 8, 1980.
Savannah Walling performing at Western Front, photo documentation, Feb 8, 1980.
Karen Rimmer performing at Western Front, photo documentation, Feb 8, 1980.
Karen Rimmer performing at Western Front, photo documentation, Feb 8, 1980.
Karen Rimmer performing at Western Front, photo documentation, Feb 8, 1980.

Western Front is a non-profit artist-run centre in Vancouver.

We acknowledge the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations as traditional owners of the land upon which Western Front stands.