Premiered: March 7,8,9, 2008/ at Expanse Movement Arts Festival, Catalyst Theatre, Edmonton
Photo Credit: Ted Kerr, 2008
My Heart is a Pioneer continues Ochoa’s controversial exploration of the female body through Qi gong energy training and new media collaborations.
"Inspired by the Body Worlds exhibit, the dancers and I have come up with a show that turns the human body inside out, visceral, kinesthetic, raw. The dancers have been given a task to explore what it's like to be in a human body, a female human body, for the first time," quotes Ochoa, choreographer and dancer behind My Heart is a Pioneer.
Collaborating with musician Travis Boa with a video projection by artist Ted Kerr, Ochoa and company examines the female body as a site of both public and private experiences, simultaneously natural and machine, at all times being vulnerable yet in control.
My Heart is a Pioneer Choreographer: Kathleen Ochoa Dancers: Miriam Esquitin, Victoria Rohac, Maggie Bosse, Eryn Tempest, and Kathy Ochoa Composer and live music: Travis Boa Video Installation: Ted Kerr Duration: 50 minutes
Photos and Photo Collages: Ted Kerr
