LABdiff 6
Camille Huang + Victoria Mackenzie
ÉDIFICE WILDER | Espace Vert
April 12, 2025 - 7pm
April 13, 2025 - 4pm
April 14, 2025 - 7pm
20$
Doors: 30 minutes before the presentation
Bar service in the space
Discussion led by the curators every evening
Put on your slippers, get yourself a drink, and take in two artistic offerings during an eclectic and lively evening! Following three weeks of exploratory research in our very own underground, Espace Vert, the artists will offer you the fruit of their experiments in the form of a public presentation. With this new presentation model, Tangente opens the doors of its laboratory to cultivate a privileged and intimate relationship between artists and spectators.
90 minutes
Camille Huang
Camille Huang is a performer making works. They bring together a background in cultural anthropology, dance performance and transdisciplinary creation, and a keen eye for composition to form an emerging choreographic journey. As a second-generation immigrant as well as a first-generation artist in her family lineage, Camille’s work unfolds pluralities-poetic-mixed. Camille has a background studying Anthropology at Concordia and McGill University and is a graduate of École de danse contemporaine de Montréal. She composes her performance work with a transdisciplinary ethic.
With the support of the Canada Council of the arts
Residencies ATLAS – create your dance trails (ImPulsTanz, Vienna), Tangente
Victoria Mackenzie
Victoria Mackenzie aka “VicVersa” is a Montréal-based independent dance artist. Her connections with the street dance and club scenes are an essential part of her life. Vic has been dancing since early childhood and has since practiced and performed various styles in various arenas. She is an amalgam of classical training, b-girl-ism, and a nightclub regular. She has performed, taught, and battled locally and internationally. Her frequent past and present collaborators include Tentacle Tribe, Helen Simard, We All Fall Down, Ebnflōh, 100Lux, Tangente, and FRGMNT. Her approach considers musical emphasis, expression of self and catharsis above all else.
Residencies Tangente
Jon Cleveland is a Montréal-based lighting designer/visual artist. Working in theatre and dance, he has worked with the Segal Centre for Performing Arts, the National Arts Centre, the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Tangente, Cabal Theatre, Scapegoat Carinivale, Susanna Hood, Lucy M. May, Rabbit in the Hat, Malik Nashad Shapre, RUBBERBAND, Dave St-Pierre, and Kim-Sanh Châu, among others. His design for Cabal Theatre’s Tragic Queens was nominated for a 2017 META award for outstanding lighting design.
Juicy/Help Me is an upcoming dance theatre work that includes movement/dance and text/speaking, which will be created with lighting design and set design as priority elements. Juicy/Help Me creatively addresses the artist’s and her community’s growing experience with significant gynecological issues while trying to navigate the public healthcare system as working dance artists.
The work is a step in a new direction for the performer, who is initiating a work based on the female gynecological and uterine experience. It is a collection of personal narrative and shared experiences of her community/those with uteruses who experience regular pain and have difficulties navigating the public healthcare system as physical workers.
For all aspects of this work, we will seek creative decisions that offer ambiguity, moving through oppositions and creating crossfades that bring us to polarizing moments without perceiving transitions. The erasing/expanding of the lines between various states is a particularly important aspect of sharing the complexities of the experience of those dealing with gynecological issues, the many confusing, quickly-changing, challenging, and indescribable sensations.
