Thank you for joining us for Nervous Systems.
Artistic Director’s Message
Kimberley Cooper
But doesn’t it seem magical?
That we can get hungry, and sleep, and get turned on? That we can run fast, play an instrument, dance? That we can look at someone and our pupils dilate, and our heart races, or feels like it’s actually breaking. That we can decide we like those shoes, or that song. That we can express our ideas, heck, that we can even have ideas. The human body is an incredible thing, we all have one and perhaps sometimes we become ordinary to ourselves, but truly, aren’t we a world of wonder?
And so much of this is because of our nervous system- the telegraph lines that control us, regulate us, keep us pumping and bumping. It’s wild when you think about how much is going on inside us, even while we are just sitting, even when we are just sleeping.
I think that is what Nervous Systems is about- the wonder of us. Sometimes the band is the brain, the dancers the body, sometimes that flips, sometimes we look deeper into the internal workings of the central and peripheral nervous systems, and we will try to explain what we are doing while we are doing it…
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Featuring Cassandra Bowerman, Carsten Rubeling and Daniel Nava
Photo by Laura Kleiner
Featuring Thys Armstrong, Shahrzad Ahmadi and Sabrina Comănescu
Photo by Laura Kleiner
Featuring Shahrzad Ahmadi and Simeon Peters
Photo by Laura Kleiner
Featuring Catherine Hayward and Thys Armstrong
Photo by Laura Kleiner
Featuring Simeon Peters, Cassandra Bowerman, Natasha Korney, Mara Liao Esnard and Kaja Irwin
Photo by Laura Kleiner
Featuring, Sabrina Comănescu, Shemar Herbert, Catherine Hayward, Scott Augustine and Thys Armstrong
Photo by Laura Kleiner
Featuring Shemar Herbert, Natasha Korney, Catherine Hayward and Sabrina Comănescu
Photo by Laura Kleiner
Featuring Shahrzad Ahmadi, Shemar Herbert, Catherine Hayward, Kaja Irwin, Sabrina Comănescu, Thys Armstrong and Scott Augustine
Photo by Laura Kleiner
Featuring Kaja Irwin, Shahrzad Ahmadi, Cassandra Bowerman, Sabrina Comănescu and Catherine Hayward
Photo by Trudie Lee
Featuring Cassandra Bowerman
Photo by Trudie Lee
Featuring Cassandra Bowerman
Photo by Trudie Lee
Featuring Kaja Irwin and Sabrina Comănescu
Photo by Trudie Lee
Featuring Simeon Peters
Photo by Trudie Lee
Featuring Simeon Peters and Shahrzad Ahmadi
Photo by Trudie Lee
Featuring Sabrina Comănescu
Photo by Trudie Lee
Featuring Sabrina Comănescu, Shemar Herbert, Catherine Hayward, Scott Augustine, Thys Armstrong and Shahrzad Ahmadi
Photo by Trudie Lee
Featuring Kaja Irwin
Photo by Trudie Lee
Featuring Kaja Irwin
Photo by Trudie Lee
Photo by Trudie Lee
"Part humoresque, part satirical sendup and, in other panels, suffused with a healthy dash of angsty commentary about what our brains tell us that at times can seem to define each of our realities, Nervous Systems is unsparing in its view that we are as much beautiful inhabitants of intelligent movement machines as we are at times victims of how our neural machines can work to over-ride our rational consciousness."
Stephen Bonfield - Calgary Herald
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"'In creating this new show, we have been playing with ideas that explore the marvels of the brain and the body. It is a physical, groovy, whimsical piece that doesn’t take itself too seriously,' says DJD artistic director Kimberley Cooper who created and choreographed the piece."
Michele Jarvie - Calgary Herald
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MUSIC FROM THE SHOW
DANCERS
Nervous Systems features the DJD Company dancers Shahrzad Ahmadi, Thys Armstrong, Scott Augustine, Cassandra Bowerman, Sabrina Comanescu, Catherine Hayward, Kaja Irwin, Natasha Korney, Mara Liao Esnard, Simeon Peters and Shemar Herbert (Apprentice)
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MUSICIANS
Nervous Systems features original live music played by a four piece band led by Calgary musician and trombonist Carsten Rubeling. Featuring Carsten Rubeling on trombone and keyboards, Daniel Nava on bass, Luis Tovar on percussion and André Wickenheiser on trumpet.
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Additional parking
Two large paid-public parking lots are located at the South and East sides of the building. Two-hour meter street parking is available on Center Street SE, between 12 and 13 Avenue SE. Two disabled parking spaces are available on the south side of the building.