3D Venice Biennale Film OutSideIn Features Prominent Toronto Dance Company, Beginning Today

After redefining the physical spaces where a dance company can perform (the Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia, the Altai Mountains in Mongolia, the Saskatchewan prairie grasslands, urban construction sites in Toronto), Toronto-based Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie (CLC) can be viewed in multi-dimensional space in a ground-breaking 3-D stereoscopic film entitled OutSideIn this summer at the world's biggest art fair, the Venice Biennale which opens May 9 in Venice, Italy and runs for just over six months.

OutSideIn is a 40-minute, stereoscopic meditation on body and environment, shot entirely in 3D using high-powered macro lenses. The film is an up-close and personal exploration of the human body and its boundaries (or apparent lack thereof) in the natural world. Filmed at director Anne Troake's farm in Logy Bay, Newfoundland, OutSideIn features dancers Carole Prieur and Bill Coleman performing choreography based on "cellular-sourced movements".

Over five years in the making, OutSideIn began with Troake's introduction to the "deep sensing" work Coleman has been doing in the studio, in natural environments and, recently, at McMaster University's LiveLab, a research facility designed to investigate the physiological experiences of performers and spectators. Observing dancers Bill and Carole in the studio, Troake became fascinated with what shecouldn't see, with the micro-movement going on inside the body and barely visible from the outside Š unless you get very, very close Š

For a more in-depth look at the project, visit http://www.signalblog.ca/?p=12689
for an interview with Anne Troake, with pictures.

OutSideIn is presented from today, May 9-November 22, 2015 at the 56th Venice Biennale in an exhibition titled "Under the Surface," organized by the not-for-profit Terra Nova Foundation at the Galleria Ca' Rezzonico, a Gothic palazzo on Venice's historic Grand Canal.

http://biennalediveneziaarte.blogspot.ca/2014/09/under-surface-con-jordan-bennett-e-anne.html?m=1

This summer Coleman, Prieur and a fearless crew of dancers can be found in North Africa's Sahara Desert and shortly thereafter in the highlands of Scotland at the Environmental Art Festival - the two legs of Coleman's most recent project, The Journey.

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