Theatre Junction Grand & Springboard Performance Present FLUID FESTIVAL, 10/22-25

Making its Canadian premier at this year's Fluid Movement Festival, co-presented with Theatre Junction GRAND, L-E-V's House is an adventurous creation performed by an ensemble of fiercely talented dancers, October 22-25. This exciting work is the culmination of years of collaboration between two creative Israeli superstars- Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar.

A home, a club or an asylum? Androgyny, sexuality and the supernatural collide in House, a cinematic, fragmented, extreme close-up collage of images capturing human relationships that flicker and vanish. Ten dancers, dressed only in nude body stockings that have become integral to L-E-V's distinctive aesthetic, shake, shudder and tick in unison to a hypnotic techno beat.

"What excites me most about House is the convergence of forms - the line of contemporary dance and choreography that came out of Sharon Eyal's time with the Batsheva Dance Company combined with Gai Behar's music from the underground party scene in Tel Aviv, which results in a pop-formal aesthetic. The vitality and energy behind Eyal and Behar's collaborative work is the L-E-V dance company," said Mark Lawes, Theatre Junction GRAND's artistic director.

Since 2006, Eyal and Behar have created a stream of critically acclaimed original works for some of the world's leading dance companies.

"House is a manic arrangement of many, many layers, and expresses this feeling of human connection in a kind of collective, 'we're in this together' schizophrenia," said Doug Letheren, dancer and founding member of L-E-V. He continues, "The show feels a little bit like being at home, in your subconscious, which is a bit like why L-E-V was created."

Headed by Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar, L-E-V (meaning heart in Hebrew) is a daring and provocative new Israeli company fueled by the artistic momentum of Eyal. For many years, Eyal was muse, dancer and choreographer at the esteemed Batsheva Dance Company before breaking away in 2013 to form L-E-V as a means to explore her own idiosyncratic choreographic voice. Partnering with Behar, a well-known producer of live music, techno raves and underground art events in Tel Aviv, the pair has developed a conceptual dance company where movement, music, lighting, fashion, art and emerging technology meet. Harnessing an original score by composer Ori Lichtik, and the exceptional perfectionism of a powerful ensemble of dancers, including Eyal, L-E-V brings incomparable artistry to the stage.

Tickets: $39-$44 regular; $20 students, artists, under 30's

On sale at www.springboardperformance.com & www.theatrejunction.com

Springboard is a non-profit organization devoted to connecting artists, mediums, audiences, the body and the mind through physical contemporary creation and public space manipulation since 1988. Springboard produces the Fluid Festival, The Interrarium Creation residency in Banff and interdisciplinary works for stage and screen. containR in Sunnyside is Calgary's first designated ART PARK and is a pop-up village of repurposed shipping containers housing arts facilities and gathering spaces on a hectare of land, featuring a 100 mile diet of creative ideas - Cross-pollinating public performances, public art, green design and initiatives, permaculture activities, community gatherings and public forums showcased on a rotating basis.

Theatre Junction GRAND is Calgary's culturehouse for multidisciplinary live art. Since 2006, the theatre has become a centre for creation, presentation, and dissemination of contemporary performance from Calgary, Canada, and around the world. In 2005, Artistic Director Mark Lawes changed Theatre Junction's mandate from a theatre of interpretation to a creation-based theatre company with a long-term commitment to the revitalization of Theatre Junction's creation practice, and to support creation based artists and their work, in an attempt to address the theatre's relevance to a changing city and world. With a donation from Calgary philanthropist Jackie Flanagan and public funding through Canadian Heritage, Theatre Junction was able to purchase and transform The Grand theatre into one of the leading contemporary theatres in Canada.

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