Presented by Firehall Arts Centre Residency

Albatross is a new work created by Brussels-based German Jauregui in collaboration with Vancouver’s Company 605. This driving duet pulls apart a single moment, enabling us to dissect and experience its contents in expanded time.

Like two parts of one’s self, in continuous motion and perpetual contact, two bodies inhabit a single person's trajectory through a test of endurance. Faced with both a physical and psychological burden, the heavy weight that they must carry, the performers are forced to surrender to the circumstances and to their interdependence. They simultaneously become each other’s obstruction and support to keep moving forward.
A constant falling that never ends in the ground, like the Albatross flying without flapping his wings, humans live resisting their descent into regret.

About the Company/Creator

Company 605 is a Vancouver-based dance company dedicated to producing new dance work through a shared creative process. As part of a generation of creators inspired by the exchange between urban and contemporary dance, Company 605 places emphasis on movement innovation and physically demanding works, valuing collaboration as an essential tool for new directions in the form. With the group’s extreme versatility, the collective creates by using one another as the canvas for their ideas and visions, and invites guest choreographers to make new work with the company. Through constant collaboration with all involved artists and performers, Company 605 continues to push into new territories and awaken a fresh and exciting aesthetic, together building a highly athletic art form, with extreme physicality derived from the human experience.

German Jauregui is a director, choreographer, dancer and teacher based in Brussels. From 1998 to 2008, he collaborated with the company Ultima Vez/Wim Vandekeybus. He works in parallel with Loïc Touze, Idoia Zabaleta/Moare danza, Eolo Teatro, Deabru Beltza. In 2007 he participated in the international project Sites of imagination and created his first piece Isaac. Several of his works are presented in festivals in Europe and Mexico. He also gives seminars and workshops internationally, Ultima Vez Workshops, Impulstanz in Vienna, Paris Workshop/Carolyn Carlson among others.