MAXINE HEPPNER : CREATIONS
KISS
“Wow…dance that springs from inspiration of brain and nerve impulse is just exactly ‘natural dance and media’ !!! This message gets through to audience, very good and very clear !”
Naoto Iina,
Dance-Media Japan, Tokyo 2006
KISS : Description of Work
KISS: an experiment for body and mind
(2006)
When was the last time?
What do you remember?
What would you like someone else to remember?
What is a KISS? A perfect moment when all desires, needs and dreams become one. No two kisses are the same. In our KISS the Kissed is full of the experience of past kisses. A good kiss is never lost! Her memory is so bright that the audience can even see the past in front of them. Dancer Takako Segawa is the Kissed in physical here-and-now time. Maxine Heppner performs her shadow mind through manipulation of words and video. Every kiss is a new experience, is it not? So we approach each performance of KISS as an experiment for body and mind.
KISS: Credits
Director / Choreographer
Maxine Heppner
The Kissed: Dancer
Takako Segawa
Shadow of her Mind
Maxine Heppner
Music
Ellen Band, Robert W. Stevenson
Video
Christos Giotis, Maxine Heppner, Motria Sabat (cameras)
Louis Laberge-Côté (dancer)
Produced by
Across Oceans Arts and Maxine Heppner • Dances
Presenters
“Vernissage” Studio 303 Montreal
“Months of Dance Festival” Athens Greece
“Dance-Media Japan” Tokyo Japan
“Lasalle College for the Arts” Singapore
“Sumber Cipta” Jakarta Indonesia
Many thanks to
Naoto Iina, Bianca Pulungan, Farida Oetoyo, Teti Nikolopoulou
and the support of
The Canada Council for the Arts, The Ontario Arts Council, and the Embassy of Canada in Japan.
KISS: Media gallery
