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Tom Rolston (bottom left, 1969) and his wife Isobel are the SPRING/SUMMER 2018 co-founders of Banff Centre’s Music and Sound programs. In their 40 years at the Centre, they helped shape the program to the unique learning experience that it is today. Luri Lee (right) plays first violin with the Rolston String Quartet, which won grand prize at the 2016 Banff International String Quartet Competition, and is named for the Rolston family. The quartet was formed in 2013 during a chamber music residen- cy on our campus. The violin she currently uses is Rolston’s, on loan from Banff Centre, and crafted by luthier Samuel Zygmuntowicz. Both artists are pictured on our cover holding that same violin, surrounding Juno-nominated cellist Cris Derksen, whose new commission will be performed on campus this summer.

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12 Long’s Not Gone 28 Changing the 3 President’s Letter 40 Open Studios Longform journalism Way We Work Peek into the studios of master Susan Orlean on Learning to think 4 Event Highlights Banff Centre artists the medium’s revival and differently as the way Some highlights from how she likes to work we work changes this season’s Banff 46 What’s On Centre events Plan your spring/summer 14 Back to the Future 30 Eighty-Five Years of cultural adventures Breaking down walls Creative Practice 6 Connect With Us during the Summer Music Some highlights from our Follow our InStudio 56 Alumni News program EQ: Evolution of 85 years in the mountains stories online Celebrating Banff the String Quartet Centre achievements 32 The Legacy Makers 8 From the Vault and milestones 20 Primary Colours An endowment in his Get to know the artists How centering the name helps to keep jazz behind some of the 58 Staff voices of Indigenous pianist Bruce McKinnon's works from our artists and artists of legacy alive permanent collection 60 Banff Centre Supporters colour could change the state of art in Canada 36 Wild and Free 10 Studio Visit 64 Last Word The Visual Arts program Learn about one of our Exploring the creative 24 Bridging Realities Outdoor School uses Leighton Artists Studios work space of choreogra- Using technology to nature as inspiration for pher Alan Lucien Øyen connect to a new genera- a new way of seeing

PHOTO CREDITS: NADYA KWANDIBENS (DERKSEN), COURTESY PAUL D. FLECK LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES (ROLSTON), TIANXIAO ZHANG (LEE). ZHANG TIANXIAO (ROLSTON), ARCHIVES AND LIBRARY FLECK D. PAUL COURTESY (DERKSEN), KWANDIBENS NADYA CREDITS: PHOTO tion of opera lovers

Spring / Summer 2018 InStudio 1 PRESIDENT’S LETTER

Opera returns to Banff with singers, dancers, and designers exploring new uses of technology to push the medium forward. They end the residency with a performance of Orphée+, a take on Gluck/Berlioz’s famous work. And don't forget to join them for an outdoor performance of Candide in our Shaw Amphitheatre—a show for the whole family. We’re pleased to welcome dance company L-E-V back to our stage for their performance of OCD Love. And with the warmer weather brings a month of jazz, featuring, among many, our new co-artistic director of the Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music, Tyshawn Sorey. This summer also promises to be an exciting one full of events that showcase talent from all over. Our Shaw Amphitheatre outdoor summer concert series will feature both favourites like Blue Rodeo, and A Tribe Called Red, and new faces like The Sheepdogs. This summer we will also officially re-open the newly renovated Lloyd Hall, the residence that artists, facul- ty, and guests call home during their stay. We are proud to upgrade our fa- cilities to create the best experience possible for artists to create, study, and perform at Banff Centre. DEAR ARTS LOVER, from a few chalets in the woods, it Please enjoy this issue of InStudio, This summer Banff Centre for Arts now occupies over 40 acres in the which looks behind the scenes of all and Creativity, located on Treaty stunning Canadian Rocky Mountains. our exciting artistic projects, and helps 7 territory, will celebrate its 85th In this issue of InStudio, Banff to mark our 85th anniversary during anniversary as Canada’s home for the Centre alumna and award-winning arts the spring and summer of 2018. arts. It’s an important milestone and writer Nicole Kelly Westman writes We look forward to welcoming you one worth celebrating. about a new Visual, Digital and Media this summer to Banff Centre. Building on the spirit of creativity it Arts program, Outdoor School, which Sincerely, was founded on, Banff Centre is now looks to this natural environment to in- one of the world’s leading collabora- spire artists to tell new kinds of stories. tive creative environments, encour- Our cover story highlights a aging artists, leaders, and thinkers to new Summer Music program from learn from each other and practice at co-artistic directors Claire Chase and the highest level of excellence. Steven Schick called EQ: Evolution of What began as the idealistic dream the String Quartet. The story explores of a handful of educators from the a well-loved genre whose tradition Janice Price University of Alberta’s Adult Education- spans centuries, and continues to PRESIDENT & CEO al Extension Programme — to create evolve today. BANFF CENTRE FOR ARTS AND a summer school for artists in Banff We’re thrilled to welcome Susan CREATIVITY National Park — has now grown into Orlean as the new Rogers Communi- one of the largest multi-disciplinary cations Chair in Literary Journalism. arts training institutions in the world. You can read all about her love of From 130 students in its first the longform genre and her storied summer program, the Centre now career on page 12.

PHOTO CREDIT: TODD KOROL TODD CREDIT: PHOTO welcomes over 3,000 artists per year;

Spring / Summer 2018 InStudio 3 EVENTS

Join us this summer for music, dance, opera, literature, lectures, and peeks inside our artists’ studios. Learn more about our spring and summer events on pages 46 to 53 and on our website, LEFT: The Sheepdogs. banffcentre.ca RIGHT: Susan Orlean. BELOW: L-E-V Visual + Digital Arts Dance Company: Open Studios OCD Love. May 16, July 4, August 22 May Tour the studios to meet and discover the work of artists in the Visual + Digital Arts programs.

L-E-V Dance Company: OCD Love June 22

June Don’t miss this powerful piece, danced to pulsating techno beats, about love that always misses, or lovers who keep missing each other.

Des Canyons aux Étoiles by Olivier Messiaen June 23 An outdoor performance in our Shaw Amphitheatre of the orchestral work by French composer Olivier Messiaen.

Orphée+ July 12 + 14 Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, July Opera Columbus, and Toronto’s Against the Grain Theatre collaborate on a new co-production of Gluck/Berlioz’s groundbreaking opera Orphée.

Susan Orlean in Conversation July 17 + 24 Join Rogers Communications Chair in Literary Journalism, Susan Orlean in conversation with award winning writers, Philip Gourevitch, and Lawrence Wright.

The Sheepdogs August 4 Keeping the Rock'n'Roll spirit alive! Join three-time Juno winners The Sheepdogs for a night of beef-and-boo-

August gie, twin-axe riffs, hooks, shuffles, and Event Highlights long-haired aesthetic. PHOTO CREDITS: MAT DUNLAP (SHEEPDOGS), KELLY DAVIDSON (ORLEAN), GIL SHANI (L-E-V DANCE COMPANY) DANCE (L-E-V SHANI GIL (ORLEAN), DAVIDSON KELLY (SHEEPDOGS), DUNLAP MAT CREDITS: PHOTO

banffcentre.ca Spring / Summer 2018 InStudio 5 CONNECT WITH US Art Online

Follow us on Instagram @banffcentre to get regular peeks into our artists’ spaces, information about upcoming performances, and stunning views of our unique campus There’s More to See Press Play in the mountains. Behind the Scenes BANFF CENTRE PRESENTS In this video series, you’ll get the exclusive on the creation of new works at Banff Centre. Keep an eye on our social channels Get involved with Banff Centre online to see for a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the even more from InStudio. Every time you opera Orphée+. see the plus symbol ( ), it means we’ve got more in store for you, with videos and OPEN STUDIO is a video series that goes inside articles available online. the studios and creative spaces of our artists and asks them about their practices. From a duo who You can also explore more on our website recorded a song in a cave, to a ceramicist and performance artist, we step inside the studios of our and on YouTube. Learn how artists get participants to see what their process is all about. inspired to create their works in our Spotlight series. Plus, check out our Banff Centre Presents series to get a deeper look at the Artist Voices creation of productions before they head out into the world. banffcentre.ca ARTIST VOICES articles are conversations with some of the most exciting figures in international and Canadian contemporary art today, like choreographer and dancer Peggy Baker, and Algonquin artist Caroline Monnet (photo above).

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/BANFFCENTRE @BANFFCENTRE /THEBANFFCENTRE @BANFFCENTRE PHOTO CREDIT: ULYSSE DEL DRAGO (MONNET) DRAGO DEL ULYSSE CREDIT: PHOTO

banffcentre.ca Spring / Summer 2018 InStudio 7 FROM THE VAULT Investigating Identity Work from Banff Centre’s Permanent Collection

I’M TRYING TO GET UNDERNEATH THAT QUESTION OF IDENTITY AND PLACE.

Recalling familiar tropes of the Canadian wilderness that are often LISE MELHORN-BOE I MAKE A sad little girl, 1995 used to define a national artistic style, Yoon’s work raises questions about SOMETHING THAT how Canadian-ness is performed, ARTISTS’ BOOKS ARE WORKS OF ART LOOKS REALLY how these commodified sites can that take the form of a book, and Lise displace and construct memory, Melhorn-Boe has been making them SWEET AND and what the place of an Asian-Ca- for almost 40 years. Banff Centre’s Paul nadian woman is in this setting. D. Fleck Library and Archives has 14 of WHEN YOU START Yoon returns to the site of the na- Melhorn-Boe’s works in its vast artists’ READING, IT’S tional park to create Long View, books collection of over 4,000 titles. another postcard series com- A signed copy of her piece, A sad little NOT WHAT YOU missioned for LandMarks 2017, a girl, was acquired into the collection in nation-wide project launched for 1995—number one of 12 in the world. EXPECT. Canada’s sesquicentennial. The small wardrobe, whose shape was — Sarah Fox inspired by the full-sized steamer trunk her dad used in his travels from Germa- [1] Anita Lahey, “What’s Hidden, What’s ny to New York in 1929, contains a cast Cook, who grew up believing that she Revealed. Jin-me Yoon’s ‘Unbidden,’” paper doll with a story rubber-stamped was bad, even though no one told her Vernissage: The Magazine of the National on handmade paper dresses hung on she was. It’s part of a series the artist Gallery of Canada (Winter 2007): 20. pink wire hangers. The paper itself is created investigating the concepts of all handmade, with each lace detail bad and good little girls. JIN-ME YOON In her photographic postcard series This discomfort is attributed to sewn and hanger made by hand, as “For a long time I was working with Souvenirs of the Self (Lake Louise), 1991 Souvenirs of the Self, created at Banff the artist’s experience navigating her well—techniques which Melhorn-Boe other women’s stories,” she said. “I Centre for Arts and Creativity in 1991, identity as an ethnic minority in Canada, learned during her fine arts degree would write questionnaires and send Yoon photographs herself in front of having immigrated in 1968 from Seoul, LEFT: Jin-me Yoon's at Detroit’s Wayne State, which she them to my friends.” They included KOREAN-CANADIAN ARTIST Jin-me well-known Canadian tourist desti- one year after the Canadian Immigration Souvenirs of the Self attended for its book-making program. inquiries like “How did you feel when Yoon’s ongoing artistic practice address- nations, including locations in Banff Act saw the elimination of discrimination (Lake Louise), 1991. “I call it ‘the cuteness factor’ you were bad?” and “Do you remember es the entanglement of the diasporic National Park. Acquired for the Walter based on race. ABOVE: Lise Melhorn- and I’ve used it a lot in my work. I the first time?” body in the framework of Canadian iden- Phillips Gallery Permanent Collection in “I’m trying to get underneath that Boe’s artists’ book, A make something that looks really “Many of them wrote pages and pag- tity. Often using herself as the subject, 1996, the photograph Souvenirs of the question of identity and place,” says sad little girl (photo by sweet and when you start reading, es of reminiscences,” said Melhorn-Boe. she explores the implications of her own Self (Lake Louise) shows Yoon standing Yoon in regard to her practice. “Ques- Chelsea Yang-Smith). it’s not what you expect,” said the Beth Cook wrote Melhorn-Boe a letter, place in the Canadian landscape as both in front of the iconic landscape, albeit tions of citizenship and new forms of Kingston, Ontario-based artist. which she later interpreted into the an immigrant and settler. looking staged and awkward. understanding belonging are at the The story, told across five dresses, story hung delicately in this tiny trunk core of what I’m trying to explore.”[1] is that of Melhorn-Boe’s friend Beth you can hold in your hands.

banffcentre.ca Spring / Summer 2018 InStudio 9 STUDIO VISIT

THE LEIGHTON ARTISTS STUDIOS, opened in 1985, are nine unique studio spaces for artists working in all genres. The area is located on campus, but nestled in the forest in a world all its own. Each of the eight original studios was named for the distinguished Canadian architect who designed it, and each space is unique in its look and feel. The beautiful, secluded spaces have housed writers, composers, singer-songwriters, visual artists, screenwriters, playwrights, transla- tors, curators, theorists, and more. It’s the perfect place to escape into your thoughts and focus on creation. Located near the entrance to the Leigh- ton Artists Studios and encircled by pine trees, the Valentine Studio was designed with composers in mind. The architect, Fred Valentine, considered many different work styles — from traditional piano to the electroacoustic — as well as the need for privacy, acoustic reverberatory control, and natural lighting. The result is a cathe- dral-style space that enhances the sound of instruments, and is built to support the Where historical legacy of local architecture. The studio provides composers and other artists the ability to be part of a collective effort at Banff Centre, while remaining the isolated at the same time. Maintenance of the studios is supported by the Leighton Artists Heart Studios Facility Renewal Endowment. is

BY RYAN McINTOSH Renowned Canadian architects designed artist

LEFT: Original retreats that are perfect spaces for creation. floorplan of the Valentine Studio, Here’s the next in our ongoing series exploring by Fred Valentine, from the Paul Banff Centre’s Leighton Artists Studios. D. Fleck Library and Archives. PHOTO CREDIT: CHRIS AMAT CHRIS CREDIT: PHOTO

banffcentre.ca Spring / Summer 2018 InStudio 11 THERE’S NOTHING LIKE Long’s Not Gone UNINTERRUPTED TIME WITH A A short conversation with longform master COMPLICATED Susan Orlean on the medium’s revival PIECE OF BY ANGELINA CHAPIN WRITING.

IN JULY, THE NARRATIVE NONFICTION You have been writing longform Is longform writing under threat in MASTER SUSAN ORLEAN will join for almost four decades now— a world where readers have short Banff Centre as the Rogers Communi- Oh no, don’t even say that! attention spans and are constantly cations Chair in Literary Journalism. The It’s shocking. bombarded with information? 62-year-old is a staff writer at theNew It’s a perfect moment for longform Yorker and the author of eight books, in- It’s amazing! In that time, how have writing, frankly. The world has made cluding The Orchid Thief, which inspired you seen the genre change? room for these pithy and/or completely the Academy Award-winning film,Adap - There’s a liberty in terms of length with impulsive short blurts as well as the tation. Orlean’s ninth book, due out this online pieces that you couldn’t possibly deep, long, thoughtful pieces. People fall, is about a 1986 fire that torched the afford in a print paper. And that also are either impatient and want to read Los Angeles Public Library—the largest has a downside: it encourages a kind of a tweet or they want to sit and read a library fire in U.S. history. The journalist sloppiness and expansiveness that is deep story. I believe deeply in the notion recently spoke with us about her craft not always the best thing for a piece of that, given the chance, people do want and why she doesn’t consider longform writing. Reporting online is both magic to sink in and immerse themselves and journalism an endangered species. and a slippery slope. People can get out learn something substantial or expe- of the habit of seeing and feeling and rience something transporting. They AC: You’ve written about a wide smelling and touching their stories when always will, and reading is an extraordi- variety of topics, such as surfer girls they do it all at their desk. nary way to have that experience. in Maui, a female bullfighter, and the famous dog, Rin Tin Tin. How do you What is the value of programs such The Rogers Communications Chair in find your ideas? as Literary Journalism at Banff Centre, Literary Journalism Endowment Fund Susan: I tend to write stories and that allow emerging longform writers provides financial support towards books where I begin with a curiosity to immerse themselves in a piece for literary programs at Banff Centre. This endowment was originally set up and not a very clearly formed thesis or uninterrupted periods? in 1987 by Maclean Hunter Limited in plan. I’m curious about something and There is nothing that compares to just honour of its 100th anniversary. I want to know what made me curious being told, “You are here to work on your about it. I think I’m a bit of a contrarian. project and just really throw yourself I tend to get attracted to stories that into it.” It’s kind of saying to yourself, are boring or not obvious. I still have to “I’m a writer, I’m a serious professional brace myself for that “Huh?” expres- and it’s okay to devote myself to this.” sion people get on their faces when There’s nothing like uninterrupted time they ask “What are you working on?”. I with a complicated piece of writing. Hear Susan Orlean become convinced that if I can tell the You have a really good long period to in conversation this story well, people will see why I first got be in it and to just really figure it out. summer. Learn more interested in it. My favourite compliment and buy tickets at is when someone says to me, “Wow, banffcentre.ca I never thought I wanted to read this and I ended up being absorbed in it.” PHOTO CREDIT: KELLY DAVIDSON KELLY CREDIT: PHOTO

banffcentre.ca Spring / Summer 2018 InStudio 13 LEFT: Luis Bellorin joined us for a Chamber Music Residency in 2017. RIGHT: 1976, the University of Illinois String Quartet with faculty Gabriel Magyar in Vinci Hall.

BACK TO THE FUTURE Breaking Down Walls at EQ:

Evolution of the String Quartet BY NICK STORRING

banffcentre.ca Spring / Summer 2018 InStudio 15 Schick has commissioned or for tradition. Explicitly inspired by the honed a warm, transparent sound and premiered over 150 new works over legacy of string quartet programming at crisp, precise sense of articulation. the past 40 years. He was Bang on Banff, tradition—or perhaps traditions, When this combination is applied to a Can All-Stars’ percussionist from plural—is in fact one of the program’s Vanhal, Asplmayr, Dittersdorf, or their 1992-2002 and is now a Distinguished cornerstones. It’s just that for its cre- namesake Joseph Leopold Eybler, all Professor of Music at University of ators, tradition is subject to the same lesser-known contemporaries of Haydn California San Diego, where he leads imaginative scrutiny as everything else. and Mozart, their works magically teem the ensemble red fish blue fish. Having Toronto’s Eybler Quartet, one of with newfound life. radition and exploration merge in a performed everywhere from Lincoln three faculty ensembles, exempli- Unlike composers from Beethoven T Center to the BBC Proms, he’s also fies this complex dynamic between onwards, those writing during the program exploring a well-loved genre that published the acclaimed book, The tradition and exploration. Since 2004, earlier classical period were typically needn’t be categorized chronologically. Percussionist’s Art: Same Bed, Differ- the Eybler has concerned itself with involved in performing their own works. ent Dreams, and recorded for Mode, exhuming works, especially obscure Consequently, features such as phras- It’s easy to immediately think in historical terms when one encounters “evolution” Wergo, CRI, and Sony Classical. ones, from the string quartet’s first ing, dynamic shapes, and bowing were and “string quartet” together in a sentence. After all, the genre, like the rest of clas- Rather than working within exist- century—a process that places past customarily worked out in rehearsal, sical music, carries the weight of a tradition that spans centuries. Yet for Co-Artistic ing frameworks for chamber music rather than notated in the score. The Directors Claire Chase and Steven Schick, the theme of their program EQ: Evolution programs, the pair built EQ to stimulate Evolution is an absence of these markings, definitive of the String Quartet at Banff this summer reaches somewhere deeper than chroni- personal growth through challenging interpretations of these works, and cling compositional aesthetics or innovations in performance practice. preconceptions. With improvisation artistic, human, of course, the composers, leaves the “Evolution is an artistic, human, and spiritual rite,” declares Chase of the pro- workshops, unconventional installa- quartet with considerable interpretive gram’s premise—at once lofty and primordial. “Embracing that is what makes us tion-like performances, collaborations, and spiritual rite. freedom. “When you’re playing music alive as musicians.” musicological musings, open-to-the- Claire Chase that doesn’t have those details, you LEFT TO RIGHT: Chase herself is very much alive as a musician. The leading American flutist has public rehearsals, and three staggering- have to find meaning elsewhere in the JACK Quartet enjoyed an illustrious career since founding the International Contemporary Ensem- ly different new commissions, the pro- and present in dialogue with one music,” notes violinist Julia Wedman. (photo by Shervin Lainez), Eybler ble (ICE) in 2001. On top of initiating Density 2036, an ambitious 22-year commis- gram promises to spark conversations another. Outfitted with era-appropriate It’s a deeply personal journey, but Quartet (photo sioning project aimed at generating solo flute repertoire to honour (groundbreaking around classical music’s conventional instruments strung with gut strings Wedman is careful to also detail the by Brainfarm), Varèse solo) Density 21.5’s centenary, she made her debut at Carnegie Hall in 2010, wisdom. Yet, while the approach is and tuned slightly lower (de rigeur meticulous analysis that informs the and the Parker was a 2012 MacArthur Fellow, and was the recipient of last year’s Avery Fisher Prize. steadfastly radical, there’s ample room throughout the 18th century), they’ve readings of each of these pieces. Quartet (photo by Jamie Jung).

banffcentre.ca Spring / Summer 2018 InStudio 17 The Eybler Quartet’s process plugs vital rhythmic profile and eclectic [tradition] is a nice place to pivot from.” Richards is excited to work with Sorey Daniel Chong. “It was purely syner- different versions of history, and their it right into one of EQ’s key principles: influences stood out for the Eybler “It’s really exciting for us to work with partly because the composer’s poly- gy—getting along really well and feeling different versions of the future. We’re so what Schick terms breaking down the and prompted them to commission somebody who’s really listening to our morphous output makes the outcome like our playing was compatible with used to staying in our lanes.” “chronological wall.” On one hand, her for this summer’s program. A style and wants to know what we think of the collaboration difficult to predict. each other.” This natural and intuitive “Given our current state,” Schick it’s about adopting an open, holistic cursory meeting in January affirmed about,” says Wedman, laughing heartily The ardent commitment to recent foundation has since matured into their quips, with a wry nod toward the attitude toward all eras of musical their enthusiasm and they discovered that in the case of the group’s typical work still elicits questions around signature cohesion as an ensemble. present political landscape, “it’s hard to activity. On the other, it’s about chan- additional common ground. “She said repertoire, “we talk to the composers, tradition. “I think I always used to be It also serves as their open-ended argue for the fact that the end stage of neling history through the present. something like, ‘When I was a student but they don’t usually answer us.” searching for new pieces to fall within curatorial model—so long as it sounds evolution is somehow superior to some For Schick, breaking that wall down I had a difficult time playing music the For New York City’s JACK Quartet, the lineage, but now I’m not so con- good to them, they’re content to earlier manifestation.” within his own thinking was a ques- way everybody else wanted me to’,” the act of working directly with com- cerned with developing the next mas- plunge into music of any era. Their site Yet, “change surrounds us,” Schick tion of dislodging biases—one of the recounts Wedman. “I think as period posers isn’t such a novel concept. In terpiece,” Richards concedes. Certainly showcases nimble, radiant renditions says. “We have in our hands as artists— evolutionary processes he and Chase performers, we also felt like we needed fact, as one of the foremost contempo- they’ve worked directly with their share of Shostakovich, Beethoven, and more than almost anyone else in this hope to engender this summer. He to find our own voice and our own way rary quartets in the world, they’ve built of modern masters: John Zorn, Chaya Kurtág. Meanwhile, this summer they’ll culture—the tools to make change a divulges that, at one point in his life, he of doing things.” their career on it. While one might point Czernowin, Helmut Lachenmann, be teaming up with the JACK Quartet positive attribute in society.” would’ve been suspicious of tradi- Derksen rose to prominence to their deftness in confronting musical Caroline Shaw, and Steve Reich to at Banff for a commissioned octet by tional ensembles appending a token with her Juno-nominated album and physical complexity, or their musi- Canadian composer Zosha Di Castri. Summer Music programs are gener- contemporary piece to an otherwise Orchestral Powwow (2015), a rich, cality within unfamiliar tuning systems Bodner candidly explains, however, ously supported by several individuals, canonical bill. One day, the inverse unprecedented hybrid of her Cree as their defining features, according to The intention of EQ that their seamlessness as a unit has foundations, and endowments. dawned on him. “When have you ever heritage, classical training and immer- violist John Pickford Richards, their true is to “put groups proven to be somewhat double-edged. in the world of contemporary music sion in various pulse-driven electronic ethos isn’t quite so formalized. “We have this extremely homogeneous seen anybody care about something musics. “There’s a lot of space at the “We thrive off a challenge as per- and individual sound but the weakness of that is that where the ink was actually dry?” intersection where traditional and formers,” he says. “I look for that in we have to work to make sure that CHECK OUT SOME Composer and cellist Cris Derksen’s contemporary meet,” says Derksen, general when I digest art—I like to be musicians all of our individual voices have their OF OUR SUMMER remarking that “whether it’s Indigenous pushed really far. Yet, I’m always sur- from different own unique role while contributing MUSIC EVENTS sounds or western art music sounds, prised by what does challenge me.” to the greater whole.” She adds that This eagerness to discover para- backgrounds it “can cause us almost to take for JUNE 23 | 7:30 P.M. digms beyond the well-worn mark- granted that we’re just going to know SHAW AMPHITHEATRE ers of ‘newness’ (the dissonance, together to grapple what each other is talking about.” Her Des Canyons aux Étoiles fragmentation, and provocation that with each other...” assured vulnerability is disarming, but by Olivier Messiaen characterized a lot of 20th century it demonstrates her insight into how Performed by faculty innovation) aligns them perfectly with Claire Chase crucial vulnerability is to artistic growth. and participants Schick and Chase’s vision of evolution. And she’s resourceful in turning those JULY 10 + 18 + 24 | 7:30 P.M. The commission from composer and name a few, yet the quartet technically shortcomings around, noting that ROLSTON RECITAL HALL percussionist Tyshawn Sorey to be un- operates a non-profit with a signifi- collaborations of various kinds have JACK Quartet, Eybler veiled during EQ is a perfect example. cant outreach component making for helped the group access new kinds of Quartet, Parker Quartet Sorey is a recent addition to Wesley- constant interaction with communi- fruitful communication as an ensemble. Repertoire from Janácek,˘ an University’s faculty, and his softly ties of emerging artists. They’re also This self-awareness and desire to Haydn, Beethoven, and more defiant explorations along the edges of invested in pedagogy, where their aim connect cuts directly to the precise improvisation, jazz, and contemporary is to demystify contemporary music sort of evolution Schick and Chase JULY 27 | 7:30 P.M. music earned him one of last year’s and encourage stylistic and historical value—a perpetual and dynamic en- ROLSTON RECITAL HALL MacArthur Foundation Fellowships. fluidity in younger players. gagement rather than a journey that World Premiere by Tyshawn Sorey With a Grammy Award and a presti- arrives at a specific destination. Inas- Performed by faculty gious residency at Harvard University much as these three quartets embody and participants on its résumé, the Parker Quartet exceptional musical skill and sensitivity, is nothing short of exemplary. Yet perhaps more importantly they are all AUGUST 3 | 7:30 P.M. mainstream success doesn’t mean uncharacteristically open—prepared for ROLSTON RECITAL HALL its members have lost sight of their learning, for conversation, and even, World Premiere by Sofia humble beginnings, nor has it inhibited on some level, for conflict. According Jernberg and Imani Uzuri their desire to explore. “At the very to Chase, the intention of EQ is to Performed by faculty beginning we didn’t have this ambi- “put groups and individual musicians and participants There’s a lot tion to make a career out of playing from different backgrounds together of space at the string quartets,” reveals their violinist to grapple with each other, and their intersection where traditional and Find more events, information, and contemporary meet. buy tickets at Cris Derksen banffcentre.ca PHOTO CREDIT: NADYA KWANDIBENS NADYA CREDIT: PHOTO

banffcentre.ca Spring / Summer 2018 InStudio 19 Hustle & Bustle/ Downriver House (2016) by Bruno Canadien created during an Indigenous Visual & Digital Arts Residency Primary Colours The Canadian art system needs a shake-up—is centering the work of Indigenous artists and artists of colour the key?

ALIYA PABANI

HE QUESTION OF HOW Indigenous artists and What do you see as the main function of Primary Co- artistsT of colour fit into the Canadian art system has lours? Is it to ensure that Indigenous artists and art- been ongoing for almost 70 years. That’s why Chris ists of colour play a larger role in shaping priorities? Creighton-Kelly and France Trépanier initiated Primary Is it to compel a change of course? Is it to imagine Colours/Couleurs primaires, a three-year initiative to alternative models for supporting artists that aren’t centre Indigenous art practices in the Canadian art sys- tethered to these institutions at all? tem, with artists of colour playing a critical role in the France: The main function of Primary Colours is to rec- process of reimagining its future. The Primary Colours ognize Indigenous self-determination, and to encour- initiative continues its evolution with a residency at age Indigenous creative sovereignty, while acknowledg- Banff Centre this summer, where the duo, co-authors ing the role of artists of colour in reframing the artistic of Understanding Aboriginal Arts in Canada Today: landscape of this territory. The program aims to nurture A Knowledge and Literature Review, will deepen the practices from different philosophical and artistic tradi- conversations started during their initial gathering in tions and by doing so, contribute to reshaping funding September 2017. priorities. We are not in the margins of the art system AP: What was the impetus for Primary Colours/ anymore, requesting access or inclusion. As Chris Couleurs primaires? would say, “We are the art system.” France: Something is shifting in the body politic in Chris: It must be said that it is near impossible to Canada. We are witnessing the convergence of many start viable arts organizations, never mind alternative currents propelled by the calls to action of the Truth institutions in 2018. Nevertheless, Primary Colours en- and Reconciliation Commission, the impact of social courages both approaches: reforming institutions and justice movements like Idle No More and Black Lives imagining an alternative art system. Matter, and the changes in funding priorities at the What does it mean to decolonize public art institutions? Canada Council for the Arts, to name a few. Of parallel What can the arts borrow from other public sectors? importance is the task of decolonizing public institu- tions. This has been happening in many sectors such France: Decolonization is a word used to describe as health, education, and justice. It is time for the arts a wide range of processes, which include reflection, sector to catch up. restoration, reparation, and restitution. Cultural ap- propriation, tokenism, a lack of proper representation, Chris: The impetus for Primary Colours/Couleurs and sporadic programming are all part of the colonial primaires is to elaborate on terms like decolonization; ethos at the core of many mainstream art institutions. Indigenization, Islamophobia, intersectionality, concilia- Some would argue that it is impossible to decolonize tion/reconciliation, creative sovereignty, ‘post-postco- institutions that have colonial worldviews, beliefs, and loniality’—unsettling settlers in an arts context. attitudes in their DNA. PHOTO CREDIT: RITA TAYLOR RITA CREDIT: PHOTO

banffcentre.ca Spring / Summer 2018 InStudio 21 We have witnessed many examples of this in 2017, a year of (re)conciliation and—for some—a celebration of Canada 150. Larger western art institutions that have benefited from disproportionately high levels of public funding for decades, accessed large amounts of funding to produce and present artworks that told the story of Aboriginal peoples. They often had to rely on Step into historically under-funded Indigenous artists and arts organizations to do so. Yet the artistic capital accrued to the large institutions for such undertakings, while the Indigenous arts infrastructure remained underdevel- your creative oped. It is like a perversion of the process of decoloniz- ing the art system. potential. [Decolonization] has been Our Leadership programs integrate happening in many sectors the power of the arts and the wisdom such as health, education, and of Indigenous practice. Register today. justice. It is time for the arts sector to catch up. banffcentre.ca

Chris: As for borrowing from other sectors, scholars are developing large bodies of critique, rewrites of Chris Amat. by Photo history, and proposals for moving forward. The justice sector also offers legal strategies that challenge the status quo. What are the legal rights of Indigenous artists, for example? What’s been the most memorable revelation of the process thus far? France: For me, it was the confirmation that using Indigenous protocols and methods of knowledge-shar- ing, when hosting complex conversations, creates safe, productive spaces. At the Primary Colours gathering, we did not use keynotes, lectures, or panels of experts. This personalized, ‘everyone is an expert’ approach revealed the power of reframing notions of authority Participants at and expertise so that individuals felt respected, heard, the initial Primary and persuaded to share knowledge. Colours gathering in Toronto. Chris: The revelation for me—given my involvement in this work for over 30 years—is how urgent and timely these conversations still are. The strength and depth of the artists involved is astounding. Most of them are accomplished artists, some are major award winners, almost all are working diligently in their communities to encourage change. I am personally inspired by the millennial generation where folks work with an intersec- tional, digital-forward, DIY, don’t-bullshit-me attitude. There is still difficult, complex, activist work to do, but I feel optimistic.

France Trépanier is the co-chair of Banff Centre's Indigenous Program Council. Indigenous Arts at Banff Centre is generously supported by RBC and the Slaight Family Foundation.

banffcentre.ca Spring / Summer 2018 InStudio 23 Bridging Realities

Embracing technology helps connect opera to its audiences like never before

BY JENNIFER McCARTNEY PHOTO CREDIT: SARA KING-ABADI SARA CREDIT: PHOTO

banffcentre.ca Spring / Summer 2018 InStudio 25 WE’RE NOT AFRAID TO ASK THOSE QUESTIONS AND RISK FAILURE.

Participants in the Bridging Realities program in February 2018 experiment with watching an opera performed in VR.

EARLY 70 YEARS AFTER example, he cites the construction of Reimagining Gluck the vocalists projected onto the stage A Place to Ponder the The Opera in the 21st Century program is Nthe founding of Banff Centre’s opera Wagner’s controversial Festspielhaus as they sing along with the orchestra. generously supported through the David program, its artistic director Joel Ivany theatre—the world’s largest free-stand- with Electric Guitars “They’re not necessarily live,” says Ivany, Future of the Art Form Spencer Emerging Vocalists Endowment is ensuring Canadian opera remains ing wooden structure at the time—that “With each new adaption there’s “but the orchestra will be and that’s sort Never far from Ivany’s mind is Fund and many others. The vision of relevant in a digital world. The director’s featured many innovations subse- an opportunity to present a fresh new of a new challenge.” the question of how these modern the fund helps launch the careers of innovative workshops, resulting in bold quently incorporated into modern the- work,” says Ivany. This philosophy is In addition to modern instruments, innovations are pushing opera forward promising opera vocalists and stimulates operas staged in bars or art galleries with atres. (So controversial was Wagner’s demonstrated in his company Against opera is evolving to include tech and helping it evolve. “Is that even a and encourages their professional iPhone-wielding sopranos, are helping debut opera there, however, that the the Grain Theatre’s upcoming collab- gadgets as props. In a Don Giovanni-in- faux pas?” he says of the use of digital development with a preference for artists quash stereotypes about what opera French press dubbed it “the dream of oration with Opera Columbus. The spired Against the Grain production singers and electric guitars. “An art from British Columbia. The fund was is or should be. “[The Banff program] is a lunatic.”) “Artists are naturally curious companies will present Orphée+, a take called #UncleJohn, each performer car- form that’s acoustic by nature—as soon established in memory of David Spencer, looking at what we can do in terms of people, and using technology that on Gluck/Berlioz's famed opera, which ried a working phone—an essential tool as you plug in, are we getting away a truly inspirational person who pursued opera training that isn’t being done,” didn’t exist the generation before is a will premiere in Ohio in April 2018, and for a narrative that revolved around the from what it is?” That’s precisely why his passion and desire to stimulate and says Ivany. “A big part of that can come good way to challenge people’s ideas,” then travel to Toronto, before making Tinder dating app. This meant the prop the experimentation fostered at Banff encourage the development of opera. down to technology.” says Morreale. its way to Banff Centre in July. “At the department had to source numerous Centre is so critical to the evolution of A more recent instance of the tech/ time Gluck wrote this he was looking to phones and ensure they were charged Canadian opera, he notes. “[The opera opera connection is the practice of modernize opera and looking at what and connected to Wi-Fi before each program] is for those who are interested Opera’s Embrace projecting the libretto above the stage opera can be—and that’s what he did.” performance. “You get to problem solve in where this art form is going and what of Tech Throughout which was pioneered by the Canadian So when Gluck revisited his original 1762 in new ways,” observes Ivany. Mor- the future looks like and we’re not afraid the Centuries Opera Company in 1983. Embraced by Viennese production more than 10 years reale predicts these kinds of modern to ask those questions and risk failure.” Learn more about audiences but unpopular with critics at later in Paris, the artist added more storylines will become more ubiquitous Especially important is the impact Opera events Innovation and an embrace of technol- the time, the innovation was nicknamed ballet to cater to Parisian tastes. “He with productions like Nico Muhly’s 2011 these resources have on a theatre com- like Orphée+, ogy isn’t new to opera—whatever one’s “the plague from Canada,” according to wasn’t precious or biblical,” Ivany says. hit Two Boys—a true crime tale about pany’s budget. “If we were doing this in and an outdoor preconceived notions of the discipline its creator Lotfi Mansouri. “But I didn’t Inspired by Gluck’s commitment to the dark side of the internet—paving the New York it would cost hundreds of thou- presentation of the may be, says Michael Morreale, director give a damn,” said Mansouri in a 2010 adaption and revision, Ivany’s company way for more tech-focused librettos. sands of dollars. [Banff Centre] allows us music of Candide, of digital content at Toronto Symphony interview. “Because the audience was production of Orphée+ replaces the to bring in crazy ideas and try them and and buy tickets at Orchestra. “It’s easy to forget that operas involved.” And that increased level of piano and harp with the modern sounds realize them—which is unreal.” banffcentre.ca have been embracing technology since accessibility is a big part of why opera of an electric keyboard and electric the birth of the art form,” he says. As an companies large and small continue to guitar. Additionally, the opera features

embrace technology, notes Morreale. a volunteer digital chorus—the faces of KING-ABADI SARA CREDIT: PHOTO

banffcentre.ca Spring / Summer 2018 InStudio 27 Learn more about Leadership programs like ALT/Now at banffcentre.ca Changing the Way We Work The future of work is bright for those

who build their own systems BY DEVON MURPHY

WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF WORK? a vision of how life could be at the What skills will participants in the That’s the question the next itera- same time as you’re figuring out ALT/Now program be able to take tion of Banff Centre’s Leadership ways of making it happen. How away with them to promote that program ALT/Now is asking. Social do you start to model the types of kind of change in their businesses innovator and lead faculty of the solutions that you might want to and communities? ALT/Now program Jennie Winhall head towards at the same time as What we saw last year is they start- uses design thinking to help entre- you’re trying them out? ed to think of themselves as having preneurial individuals find creative much greater agency in shifting solutions to large-scale problems. the bigger problems that they see The result is an entirely new pro- — to start thinking of themselves, cess, with exciting outcomes. We don’t ask “If not just as entrepreneurs, but this happened, system-builders. So while they’re DM: Why does the way we work building their venture they’re also now need to change? what lessons can building a network that they can Jennie: We’re seeing a number of start to shape. They come out of it trends happening in the economy, we learn from it?” with a new identity. one of which is automation. That We’d rather ask, obviously has implications for who This program is set within the does what type of work. One way to “What could be?” Leadership department of an arts stay ahead is to amplify some of the institution – how does that setting more creative aspects of human affect the outcome? ability and the more personal side How do you work towards that? These aren’t issues that can be of that. The things robots can’t do! One of the things that we do is tackled in a technical way, and so try to get people to action very I think Banff Centre is one of the What is design thinking? fast. It’s a process of making and few places where you could make We don’t ask, “If this happened, building first, and then thinking. The this kind of work meaningful. The what lessons can we learn from it?” response we get tells us something creativity itself is absolutely critical We’d rather ask, “What could be?” about where we should be heading to this work because we don’t know When you are facing challenges next. Anybody who’s tried to move what the future will look like, so we that haven’t been met in society their furniture around in their living try to create it. before...you have to be in a mode room has done this. Is this better, where you’re both forming or is this not better? We’re used to ALT/Now was generously supported doing that, but we do it a bit less in by an anonymous donor. our professional lives. PHOTO CREDIT: RITA TAYLOR RITA CREDIT: PHOTO

banffcentre.ca Spring / Summer 2018 InStudio 29 OPPOSITE PAGE We are now LEFT: Gweneth Lloyd and dancers . Canada’s leading RIGHT: Betroffenheit’s preview in the Eric post-graduate arts Harvie Theatre institution—but in 2015. it didn’t happen overnight. A brief history of the amazing work that’s

BY JOSH KNELMAN happened on campus and beyond since 1933

Competition, with 10 quartets from 1948–9: Gweneth Lloyd and around the world competing. Past ANFF CENTRE FOR ARTS AND Betty Farrally, founders of the Royal B winners include the St. Lawrence CREATIVITY, located on Treaty 7 territory Winnipeg Ballet, set up the dance String Quartet, Rolston String Quar- in Banff National Park, has been welcom- program, and a year later The Royal tet, and Dover Quartet. Last year we ing artists since 1933 to train, learn, and Conservatory of Music’s Ernesto launched the first Banff Centre Interna- create. We are now Canada’s leading Vinci sets up the opera program. post-graduate arts institution— but it tional String Quartet Festival—look for : Takao Tanabe arrives at Banff didn’t happen overnight. 1950 it again this coming September. and becomes a painting student; Banff Centre was born during the : Multi-award winning Anishinaabe Tanabe goes on to become an inter- 1991 Great Depression, with a vision inspired interdisciplinary artist Rebecca Bel- nationally recognized artist as well as by Alberta’s entrepreneurial spirit to more creates her iconic work Ayum- head of the painting division at Banff develop creative potential in artists from ee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Speak- Centre; his work is now part of the across Alberta, Canada, and the world. ing to Their Mother at Banff Centre; it permanent collection of the National Former president Donald Cameron liked goes on tour across Canada and then Gallery of Canada. to call it a “campus in the clouds.” returns to Banff Centre as part of our Over eight decades, Banff Centre has 1967: The Eric Harvie Theatre opens permanent public art collection. Banff transformed from a few small chalets in on Banff Centre’s campus, providing Centre’s outdoor public art collection the woods to a globally renowned and a major presenting space for theatre, and exhibitions at Walter Phillips Gal- dynamic training institution that supports opera, and dance productions in Alber- lery are open to visitors year-round. and celebrates thousands of Cana- ta. Hundreds of Canadian productions : The Banff International Literary da’s unique creative voices annually. have been born on this stage, including 2003 Translation Centre (BILTC) is founded Filumena, the groundbreaking opera by Linda Gaboriau. Authors who have Here’s one highlight from based on a true Alberta story, which had their works translated through each decade of our 85-year was recently remounted in Calgary. the BILTC program include Marga- legacy of welcoming artists 1974: Oscar Peterson and Phil ret Atwood, Yann Martel, Ann-Marie to the Rocky Mountains. Nimmons co-found the jazz workshop MacDonald, Lawrence Hill, Madeleine at Banff Centre. What starts as an Thien, and Rawi Hage. 1933: During the Great Depres- all-Canadian jazz experiment grows : The internationally renowned sion a community theatre project is into an international workshop that 2015 choreographer and dancer Crystal launched in the town of Banff, with takes place every August at Banff Pite co-creates Betroffenheit at Banff about 190 people taking part; over Centre and is now co-directed by TOP: Jazz legend Centre, which premiered at the Pan the next five years visual arts, mu- acclaimed musicians Vijay Iyer and Oscar Peterson on Am Games in Toronto and went on to sic, and playwriting are added to the Tyshawn Sorey. Come to Banff Centre campus in 1974. win Best Original Dance Production roster of disciplines taught. Togeth- this August to hear incredible jazz BOTTOM: Rebecca at the UK’s Olivier Awards, one of the Belmore’s Ayum-ee- er, these courses become known almost every night of the month. most prestigious prizes in the world. aawach Oomama- as the Banff School of Fine Arts, and 1983: Banff Centre celebrates its 50th Pite has been training and creating at mowan: Speaking word spreads fast across Canada. anniversary, and launches the triennial to Their Mother. Banff Centre for over 20 years. Banff International String Quartet PHOTO CREDITS: COURTESY PAUL D. FLECK LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES AND BANFF CENTRE BANFF AND ARCHIVES AND LIBRARY FLECK D. PAUL COURTESY CREDITS: PHOTO

banffcentre.ca Spring / Summer 2018 InStudio 31 2015 Bruce McKinnon Fellow, Wadada Leo Smith, and participants from the Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music. OPPOSITE: Bruce McKinnon plays in The Club at Banff Centre. The Legacy Makers The Bruce McKinnon Memorial Endowment has enabled many talented performers and composers from around the world to come to the Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music and build on a legacy

NICOLE NICKEL-LANE PHOTO CREDIT: DON LEE DON CREDIT: PHOTO

banffcentre.ca Spring / Summer 2018 InStudio 33 “F OR ALL HIS EXTRAORDINARY GIFTS We use the word “legacy” a lot knowledge. The call of music ultimately LOOKING AT THE LIST OF THE FELLOWS SUPPORTED BY THIS and astonishing personal accomplish- in the arts. The term has a somber led Bruce to New York, as it does for ments, Bruce's greatest legacy is as a connotation—that the artists assuredly many aspiring artists. He studied piano AWARD, THERE’S NO DENYING THEIR EAR FOR INVENTIVENESS, teacher.” This 2007 remembrance of will not live forever, but perhaps their at the Manhattan School of Music, 32-year-old Calgary jazz pianist Bruce work will if it is carefully stewarded earning a Master of Music in jazz perfor- THEIR OPEN-MINDEDNESS, AND THEIR SPIRIT OF ADVENTURE. McKinnon gets right to the heart of what after they’re gone. Legacy became mance and composition, and winning THAT’S WHAT OUR PROGRAM IS ALL ABOUT. made his short life special. the call of duty for the McKinnon family the President’s Scholarship twice. He Bruce’s list of accolades and accom- and for the many people whose lives followed his roots back to Alberta and Vijay Iyer, co-artistic director, Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music plishments is enviably long, and would Bruce touched. participated in the Banff International be difficult to capture in the confines of Bruce’s family and friends established Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music any article. Scholarships, publications, the Bruce McKinnon Memorial Endow- in 2001 and 2002 before returning to awards, and distinctions were hallmarks ment in 2007 to provide innovative op- New York City to pursue his passion for in a varied list of specialties. He was a portunities for musicians to create and jazz. There, Bruce performed with J.J. Just as Bruce was a worldly man of published travel writer, radio host, and a learn in the mountain setting he loved. Johnson, Don Byron, Alvin Batiste, Don many eclectic talents, so too is the teaching fellow in film studies, with a Mi- The fund has since received contribu- Braden, Conrad Herwig, and Django spirit of Banff’s workshop, which brings das touch at the piano. The Harvard grad- tions from more than 160 donors. These Bates, among others. Bruce formed together the sounds and talents of musi- uate, cum laude in mathematics, was contributions, matched by the Govern- the Squash Recipe trio with London cians of all ages and musical languages. good-looking, a loving family member, ment of Canada’s Endowment Incen- trumpeter Tom Arthurs and Toronto The Bruce McKinnon Memorial Endow- had a cracker sense of humour, and was tives component program, have enabled drummer Joe Sorbara, both of whom ment has enabled the Banff International a man of bedrock integrity and limitless the Banff International Workshop in Jazz he had met at Banff Centre, releasing Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music generosity. There is a note, hand-written and Creative Music to support more a CD in early 2006 concurrently with to elevate the experience for hundreds by Bruce at age 13, that reads, “Many than 500 musicians and composers to their U.K. tour, to favourable reviews in of talented performers and composers. thoughts cannot be expressed in words. come to Banff Centre and learn from top leading British jazz publications. Most recently in 2017 Banff Centre wel- Music and experience are man’s real faculty as well as from one another. Sadly, Bruce enjoyed his career as a comed vocalist Imani Uzuri, saxophonist tools of expression.” The stuff of legacy This legacy is a fitting one, since full-fledged pianist-composer-teacher Gary Bartz, guitarist Matt Stevens, and by any measure. Bruce spent his life in pursuit of for only a few short years before losing bassist Linda Oh, under the leadership of his battle with a rare form of cancer. Vijay Iyer and his new co-artistic director Tyshawn Sorey, a 2016 McKinnon Fellow himself. These mentors are now, in turn, using the endowment and the workshop as a living tribute to Bruce’s creative and adventuresome spirit, creating a legacy that has a profound impact on young jazz Learn more about musicians from around the world. Jazz and Creative And so this is the multi-faceted, Music events like ever-growing, deeply generous gift of Saturday Night Jazz Bruce McKinnon’s life and legacy: the Concerts in August, community that has been created and and buy tickets at the good that can come from working banffcentre.ca LEFT: Participants together with a common vision. The from the 2016 influence of Bruce’s work continues Banff International to be felt by these visiting musicians, Workshop in Jazz their peers, their eventual students, and Creative Music. the audiences who are moved by their ABOVE: Bruce performances, his family and friends, McKinnon's family. and the hundreds of people who honour his memory and support his vision. These are the legacy makers.

Banff Centre is proud to steward nearly 200 endowments, created as a legacy of support to honour a memory or to ensure a particular arts or leadership programming area is well-sustained in the future. The earnings from these funds provide stable, enduring financial support for artists and not-for- profit leaders to attend our programs, be transformed, and achieve their full potential.

banffcentre.ca Spring / Summer 2018 InStudio 35 Wild and Free Wilderness belongs to everyone, so the stories it inspires are vast and varied

BY NICOLE KELLY WESTMAN

ANFF IS SHADOWED BY MOUNTAINS, marked by Bterrain, divisible by the binaries of the service industry catering to tourism and the tourists themselves, and made memorable by the myth of the anecdotal. I eased into a state of reminiscing while conversing with Diane Borsato​ and Amish Morrell​ about their forthcoming residency pro- gram, Outdoor School, thinking back to my own 18-month experience in the Bow Valley. The residency’s interests are positioned in making space for an accessible outdoors, a wilderness that is not marked by expertise but by individ- ualized experiences, lateral knowledge exchanges, Indige- nous perspectives, and shared narrative nuances. Morrell states with a refreshing confidence, “One of the things I’m constantly reacting against is a cultural expectation that one needs to have certain clothing and equipment, and to be in specific places to have an experience of nature.” Throughout the exchange of conversation, Borsato, Morrell, and I find ourselves returning to the notion that wilderness, and how we approach it or appreciate it, is not so easily defined. PHOTO CREDIT: AVERIE WOODARD AVERIE CREDIT: PHOTO

banffcentre.ca Spring / Summer 2018 InStudio 37 A Night

I lean into the lore of a rumour from cityside valleys, through the binocular my time in Banff: if you are in the right lenses of a bird watcher, and of course acoustic position in the valley and in the care of expression shared by at the awake in the dead of night you may locals confiding stories of their places. hear the howling echo of a pack of Borsato closes our conversation with coyotes chasing the train. But the words on which I find myself hanging: reverberation of this wildness can be “While I love to practice and share my Festival muffled by the murmuring—sometimes own knowledge, and this is a venue to shouting—of the crowds of thrill seek- do that as a leader, I am hoping all the Join us in downtown Banff for a selection ers, locals, tourists, and weekenders residency participants might share their of films from the Banff Centre Mountain leaving the clubs of Banff Avenue and research, and give all of us yet more Film Festival World Tour. seeking the solace of a night’s rest. ways to love the world.” Borsato responds to my aside with a It is through the catalyst of care that Visit luxbanff.com for titles and schedule. poeticism that undermines precon- creators may find the confidence to Lux Cinema, 229 Bear Street ceived definitivies of the tamed and the challenge their own practices, break Tickets available at the door their own traditions, and experiment or at luxbanff.com with their access to knowledge. The Wilderness, faculty intends to create a residency program that bolsters the inquisitions and how we of curious artists looking for more approach it or from their environmental exposures. “Outdoor School proposes to reground appreciate it, consciousness in the body and its rela- is not so easily tion to the physical space it occupies,” says Morrell, of the inaugural program. defined. “We can do this just by walking, talking, thinking, and being together in a wild. “Is there ‘natural’ wildness? So place.” Expectations will undoubtedly much of what artists explore in envi- be exceeded as the leaders’ interests ronmental artworks are these tensions, interlace with those of the residents, as are the ways nature is culturally con- foundations for friendships are formed, structed and inextricable from human as vantage points are located, and as interference.” Her response instigates a insecurities falter and artists find the reconsideration of the intersections at comfort to perceive their view anew. play and the actual lack of a threshold Mark Your Calendar segregating the rural from the urban. Outdoor School is generously supported Rigid boundaries and forms of through the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky The 2018 hierarchy are dismissed as Borsato ​ Outstanding Artist Program. The program Festival in Banff: and Morrell​ preface a vastness in the provides opportunities to bring outstanding international and national artists to Banff cultivation of experience. Nature can October 27 – Centre as faculty members and mentors. exist through the circumstance of a November 4 narrative, as the linchpin of a locally foraged meal, in the handwritten notes Tickets on sale in the margins of a botany manual, in early August the overhead foliage shrouding skylines from pathways meandering away from

Above the Sea. Above From the film From PHOTO CREDIT: MARKO MUDRINIC MARKO CREDIT: PHOTO

banffcentre.ca Spring / Summer 2018 InStudio 39 OPEN STUDIOS

Banff Artist in Residence Masako Miyazaki sketches in her studio (Photo by Rita Taylor). Meet the artists and see their works in progress at our free Open Studio events. Learn more at banffcentre.ca

The Artists Are Present Artists pull back the curtain on their workspaces for our regular Open Studio events, which are open to the public. Take a look inside some of their studios...

banffcentre.ca Spring / Summer 2018 InStudio 41 OPEN STUDIOS

Meet the artists and see their Watch a video works in progress at our free about Ballet BC's Open Studio events. Learn production residency more at banffcentre.ca at banffcentre.ca/ instudio

RIGHT: Ballet BC participated in a two-week production residency in our dance studios prior to their avant-premiere of Romeo + Juliet in the Eric Harvie Theatre (photo by Don Lee). BELOW: Tanja Engelberts works in Banff Centre’s printmaking studio during the Dark Arts photographic residency (photo by Rita Taylor).

ABOVE: Carissa Kimbell sings at an Open Concert in The Club during the Banff Musicians in Residence program, 2017 (photo by Rita Taylor). LEFT: Poet and critic Billy-Ray Belcourt gave a reading during the 2018 Winter Writer’s Retreat residency (photo courtesy of the artist).

Read an article about poet Billy-Ray Belcourt's artistic practice at banffcentre.ca/ instudio

banffcentre.ca Spring / Summer 2018 InStudio 43 OPEN STUDIOS

Meet the artists and see RIGHT: Dark Arts photography resident their works in progress Geneva Sills makes at our free Open Studio mural prints in Banff events. Learn more at Centre’s large format banffcentre.ca printing darkroom — one of only a handful in western Canada (photo by Brittany Lucas). BOTTOM LEFT: Banff Artist in Residence Victoria Wareham covers her studio entirely in aluminum foil. BOTTOM RIGHT: Banff Artist in Residence Nadège Roscoe-Rumjahn makes work influenced by architecture and garments.

TOP: Artist Taryn Kneteman’s work In hospitable home is a performance piece that was part of the 2017 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art. Audience members were invited to share tea and conversation with the artist, as a ritual of care in an unexpected outdoor space. LEFT: Elissa LeCoque performs on the piano during an Open Concert during the Banff Musicians in Residence program. RIGHT: Banff Musician in Residence Madeleine Antoine

on the violin during an Open Concert. TAYLOR RITA CREDITS: PHOTO

banffcentre.ca Spring / Summer 2018 InStudio 45 WHAT’S ON AT BANFF CENTRE

Shaw Amphitheatre

In the Outdoor Concerts Eric Harvie Theatre Xavier Rudd Xavier Rudd Spring June 16 Canadian Serena and Roots Celebration featuring The Deep Dark Woods, Barney Bentall, Good For Grapes Ryder Summer + Elk Run & Riot June 30 June 14 Blue Rodeo Events July 6 Jens Lindemann Guide July 22 A Tribe Called Red Welcome to your guide to July 29 Banff Centre’s spring and The Sheepdogs summer concerts and events August 4 for 2018! We’ve pulled out some highlights from every Dear Rouge discipline, but there’s lots more August 11 to see on our website. Visit banffcentre.ca for updated date Jesse Cook and location information, to find August 18 out about our free Open Studio events, and to buy tickets. Dear Rouge

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Official Beer and Cider Supplier PHOTO CREDITS: COURTESY OF THE ARTIST (SERENA RYDER), COLE BENNETTS (XAVIER RUDD), TIMOTHY NGUYEN (DEAR ROUGE) (DEAR NGUYEN TIMOTHY RUDD), (XAVIER BENNETTS COLE RYDER), (SERENA ARTIST THE OF COURTESY CREDITS: PHOTO

banffcentre.ca Spring / Summer 2018 InStudio 47 WHAT’S ON AT BANFF CENTRE

Ella Dawn McGeough Visual + Digital Arts Tickets to Candide Opera and more events at banffcentre.ca the boundaries of operatic Lectures Open #OperaPub presentation through digital Series Studios June 15 + 22 + 29 sound augmentation, capti- Banff Centre Opera Pubs re- vating choreography, video May 1 + 8 + 10, May 16, July 4, projections, and aerial artistry. June 5 + 7 + 19 + 21, August 22 turn to the Banff Legion July 24 + 31, for the 5th year in a row! Countertenor Siman Tour the studios to August 8 + 9 + 10 Opera comes down the hill (in Chung performs the title meet and discover the jeans) for one of our favourite role, Topher Mokrzewski The Visual + Digital work of artists in the events, #OperaPub. Come conducts and Joel Ivany Arts Lecture Series Visual + Digital Arts hear some of Canada’s next acts as Stage Director. presents free talks by residency programs. great opera singers sing arias leading Canadian and and duets from your favourite international artists, operas, and all from the com- Candide curators, and academics. fort of your bar stool. July 15 in the Shaw Amphitheatre Chamber Werx Leonard Bernstein’s brilliant July 11 + 13 comic operetta comes to Banff Centre for one night Chamber Werx is a only as Opera in the 21st program which looks to Century debuts in the out- expand the way we hear, door Shaw Amphitheatre. see, and interact with song, chamber music and opera. This opera is based on the This multi-disciplined event classic Voltaire tale of an WALTER PHILLIPS GALLERY will engage audience mem- innocent young man’s jour- bers in new ways through an ney through a life filled with assortment of music from colourful characters and the 20th and 21st century. unexpected lessons. The LEONARD BERNSTEIN’S impeccable score includes The program will feature Banff sing along songs such as Centre Opera in the 21st Cen- “Life Is Happiness Indeed,” tury singers and musicians. If the river ran “It Must Be So,” “You Were upwards: Carolina Candide Dead, You Know,” and Caycedo, To stop + “Make Our Garden Grow.” AN OUTDOOR OPERA EVENT Orphée being a threat This year we celebrate and to become July 12 +14 Leonard Bernstein by pre- a promise, 2017. Banff Centre for Arts and Cre- senting his catchy tunes Still from two- ativity, Opera Columbus and and the show’s clever lyrics channel HD video. Toronto’s Against the Grain with beautiful young voic- Courtesy the artist. Theatre collaborate on a new es, incredible characters co-production of Gluck/Ber- and a witty response to lioz’s groundbreaking opera Voltaire’s cynical (or, rath- Orphée. This re-imagined er, realistic) philosophy. Caroline Monnet. The for ecological justice production looks to explore Like ships title emerges from the If the river from within the nexus of the gripping and timeless This concert performance idiom “ships in the night,” communities, ecologies or love story of Orpheus and will feature Banff Centre in the night ran upwards st and speaks to ideas of knowledges of a region. Eurydice through the lens Opera in the 21 Century An exhibition by communication across large June 16 to August 26 of today’s technology. While singers and musicians, along- Opening Reception: Caroline Monnet divides—both geographical staying true to the original side with artist-in-residence If the river ran June 15 and cultural—as well as to score of and honouring the Elliot Madore. January 26 - May 6 upwards reflects Artist Talk: June 16, missed connections. The traditions of Baroque op- artists’ engagements August 4 Walter Phillips Gallery is exhibition attempts to draw era, this production pushes with regions across the Curator’s Tour: pleased to present Like relationships between Americas that have been July 4, August 22 ships in the night, a solo conversations and objects sites of industrial activity. Art Break: July 27 exhibition of existing and that might be obscured from Working across mediums, new work by Montreal- one another. materials and processes, based, Algonquin artist the works locate the ethical orientations and directions PHOTO CREDITS: RITA TAYLOR (ELLA DAWN MCGEOUGH), MARTHA DESANTIAGO (CANDIDE) DESANTIAGO MARTHA MCGEOUGH), DAWN (ELLA TAYLOR RITA CREDITS: PHOTO

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OCD Love The Hamlet Complex July 26 + 27 + 28 Using the story of Hamlet as a thematic starting point, 12 dancers and three actors will work with internationally acclaimed choreographer Alan Lucien Øyen, The Creative Gesture program head Stephan Laks, and a highly experienced creative team of sound, light, costume, and set designers. National Norwegian choreographer and director Alan Lucien Øyen’s storytelling through dance and Romesh Gunesekera Indigenous theatre is in demand across the world. In recent years, his work has been developed and L-E-V Dance Company’s to pulsating techno beats performed with his company Readings Peoples Day Dance name includes the Hebrew created by DJ Ori Lichtik. winter guests, based in Oslo, word for heart (lev). And it from the It’s about love that always as well as in partnership is matters of the heart that misses, or lovers who keep with organizations such as Writing Studio form the theme of the L-E-V Celebration L-E-V Dance missing each other. Out Théâtre National de Chaillot, creation OCD Love. The work May 2 + 9 + 16 + 23 + 30 of sync. Like one person Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Company – also deals with OCD, obses- comes to bed and the other Bausch, GöteborgsOperans Join faculty and participants sive-compulsive disorder, OCD Love gets up. Like something Danskompani, The Norwegian from Writing Studio for an Thursday, June 21 which repeatedly poses chal- that is full and intact, but Theatre, and the Norwegian evening of readings from June 22 lenges for love and for life. Celebrate National has many holes in it. This National Opera and Ballet. works in progress. A powerful piece, danced Indigenous Peoples day work is about the holes. Faculty include Yasuko Thanh and David O’Meara, Hoa at Banff Centre through a Nguyen, Kathy Page, Romesh rich and unique immersion Gunesekera, and Pasha Malla,

Literary Arts Literary in arts and culture along with Associate Directors Karen Solie and Shyam Sel- celebrating Canada’s Vijay Iyer vadurai. Hosted by Program Indigenous peoples. Jazz Director Caroline Adderson. Visit banffcentre.ca for Saturday Night Jazz Club Susan Orlean full list of events. Jazz August 9 + 10 + 14 + 15 in Conversation + 16 + 17 + 21 + 22 + 23 July 17 + 24 August 11 + 18 + 25 Emerging musicians from the Join Rogers Communications Music by students and BanffInternational Workshop Chair Susan Orlean in faculty from the International in Jazz and Creative Music conversation with award Workshop in Jazz and program perform with their winning writers, Philip Creative Music. internationally acclaimed Gourevitch on July 17, and mentors in evenings of Lawrence Wright on July 24. Jazz experimentation. Conduction August 24 Lead Program Supporter Conducted improvisations with Tyshawn Sorey and participants from the Banff Find more events, International Workshop in information, and Jazz and Creative Music. buy tickets at banffcentre.ca PHOTO CREDITS: GIL SHANI (OCD LOVE), DON LEE (IYER), YEMISI BLAKE (ROMESH GUNESEKERA). (ROMESH BLAKE YEMISI (IYER), LEE DON LOVE), (OCD SHANI GIL CREDITS: PHOTO

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Participants from last year’s summer music programs, Francesca Ter-Berg, Luis Bellorin, and Gabe Miller. Box Office Info

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banffcentre.ca Spring / Summer 2018 InStudio 55 ALUMNI NEWS

Alex Cuba, Banff Centre faculty from Banff Musicians in Residence 2015, earned New Heights a nomination for Best Latin Pop Album, for Lo Único Honours, Nominations, and Milestones for Constante. Jim Anderson, former Banff Banff Centre Alumni and Community Centre audio faculty, was the winner in the category of Sobey Art Award. Boisjoly is Louise Bernice Halfe, Banff Best Surround Sound Album an Indigenous artist of Haida Centre Literary Arts alumna, for his work on the album and Québécois descent who was the winner of the Latner Early Americans. has taken part in multiple Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize, Visual + Digital Arts programs awarded to a mid-career poet Pascal Le Boeuf, composer at Banff Centre as both a in Canada with a remarkable and Banff Centre alumnus, participant and faculty. body of work; she has written was nominated in the cat- four volumes of poetry includ- egory of Best Instrumental Visual artist Lou Sheppard ing Blue Marrow, a finalist for Composition, along with was the 2017 winner of the the 1998 Governor General’s his brother Remy (Le Boeuf Emerging Atlantic Canada Literary Award in poetry. Brothers) and JACK Quartet, Artist Residency Award, Tony Birch, alumnus from two nominations; in the Banff Centre Music faculty in presented by Banff Centre Daniel Poliquin was the the 2017 Environmental Music category of Best Improvised 2017, for the album Alkaline. for Arts and Creativity and winner of the 2017 Governor Reportage program, won Jazz Solo for “Whisper the Hnatyshyn Foundation General’s Award for Transla- the Patrick White Award, set Esperanza Spalding was Not”; and in the category Chucho Valdés earned an in partnership with the tion from English to French for up by White after he won the appointed professor of of Best Jazz Instrumental honourable mention in the Harrison McCain Foundation. Un Barbare en Chine Nouvellle Nobel Prize in Literature to music at Harvard University; Album for Open Book. category of Best Instrumen- In 2018, Sheppard was (by Alexandre Trudeau). He recognize Australian writers. she participated in the 2003 tal Composition for his work artist in residence at La Cité took part in Banff Centre’s Birch is the first Indigenous Banff International Workshop Barbara Hannigan, Banff with Arturo O’Farrill on the Internationale des Arts in Banff International Literary writer to win the prize. in Jazz and Creative Music Centre alumna and Orches- album Three Revolutions. Paris with support from the Translation Centre program and returned to Banff Centre tra Ludwig, was this year’s Canada Council; later this in 2007. in 2014 to serve as faculty. winner in the category of Judith Sherman, Banff Cen- year, Sheppard will complete Performing Best Classical Solo Vocal tre audio faculty in 2006 and a cross-Canada speaking tour Oana Avasilichioaei was the Rolston String Quartet re- Album for Crazy Girl Crazy. 2008, earned a nomination in as part of the Emerging winner of the 2017 Governor Arts ceived the Cleveland Quartet the category of Producer Of Atlantic Canada Artist General’s Award for Transla- Award for the 2018/19 and Jane Bunnett, Banff Centre The Year, Classical. Residency Award. tion from French to English Playwright and Banff Centre 2019/20 seasons. Estab- alumna and former faculty, for Readopolis (by Bertrand alumnus Marcus Youssef lished in 1995, the biennial along with her band Congratulations to Todd Laverdure); she has partici- has won the 2017 Simino- award honours and pro- Maqueque earned a nomina- Whitelock, audio faculty in Literary Arts pated in multiple Banff Centre vitch Prize for excellence motes a rising young string tion in the category of Best 2015, 2016, and 2017 who programs. and innovation in Canadian quartet. Latin Jazz Album, for Oddara. contributed to a number of Author Michael Redhill was Theatre; he has participated Grammy-wining and nomi- the winner of the Scotiabank Bernadette McDonald, the in multiple Banff Playwrights Banff Centre for Arts and Miguel Zenón, Banff Centre nated albums as an engi- Giller Prize for his novel Bellev- former Vice President of Labs and most recently Creativity is proud to Jazz faculty from 2007 and neer in multiple categories, ue Square, receiving $100,000 Mountain Culture at Banff created, rehearsed and acknowledge the following 2008, earned a nomination including the winner of the and a residency at Banff Cen- Centre, and alumna from the previewed King Arthur’s Night Banff Centre alumni and in the category of Best Latin Best Large Jazz Ensemble tre. Redhill has attended Banff Mountain and Wilderness over multiple residencies at faculty who have earned Jazz Album, for Típico. Album (Bringin' It — Chris- Centre programs for decades, Writing program, won three Banff Centre. nominations or won 2018 tian McBride Big Band) Montreal-based sculptor beginning in 1984 when he literary awards for her new Grammy Awards. Shawn Everett and Joseph and Best Jazz Vocal Album Visual Arts Valérie Blass was the winner attended a theatre program; book Art of Freedom: The Life Congratulations to all four Lorge, both Banff Centre (Dreams and Daggers—­ of the Gershon Iskowitz Prize since then he has taken part in and Climbs of Voytek Kurtyka: playwrights shortlisted for Arcade Fire, including audio alumni, earned a Cécile McLorin Salvant).​​ Ursula Johnson was the at the AGO, which includes multiple Literary Arts programs the prize for best non-fiction the 2017 Siminovitch Prize Banff Centre music alumnus nomination in the category winner of the $50,000 Sobey $50,000 and an exhibit at the and residencies. work at the Banff Centre who are alumni of the and faculty Richard Reed of Best Engineered Album, Jack Wilkins, saxophonist Art Award; Johnson is a Nova Art Gallery of Ontario. Blass Mountain Film and Book Banff Playwrights Lab: Parry, earned a nomination Non-Classical, for their work and Banff Centre music Scotia-based performance participated in a Visual Arts David Chariandy won the Festival, the Boardman Tasker Évelyne de la Chenelière, in the category of Best on the album No Shape by alumnus, earned a nomi- and installation artist of residency at Banff Centre Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for Prize for Mountain Literature, Hannah Moscovitch, Alternative Music Album Perfume Genius. Everett nation as part of the band Mi’kmaq First Nation ancestry in 2017. his novel Brother. He has tak- and a prize from the National Donna-Michelle St. Ber- for Everything Now. worked on the album A Chuck Owen and the Jazz who has taken part in multiple en part in multiple self-direct- Outdoor Book Awards. nard, and Marcus Youssef. Deeper Understanding, by Surge on the album Whispers programs at Banff Centre and Raymond Boisjoly was short- ed writing residencies at Banff Fred Hersch, former faculty the band War On Drugs, the on the Wind nominated in the recently served as faculty in listed from the AIMIA Photog- Centre and served as faculty for the Banff International winner of this year’s award category of Best Large Jazz

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Thank you to all our generous 2018/19 supporters. Artists’ Fund

Pat and Connie Carlson Government Banff Centre is grateful for the funding from the Government of Alberta through Alberta Advanced Education, Alberta Infrastructure, and the Jarislowsky Jarislowsky Fraser Kim and Jeff Alberta Foundation for the Arts. Arts programs are also supported by funding from the Government of Canada through the Canada Council Foundation Partners Foundation van Steenbergen for the Arts, the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Canada Arts Training Fund, and the Canada Arts Presentation Fund.

Banff Centre International Banff International Literary Banff International Workshop String Quartet Festival Translation Centre in Jazz and Creative Music

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Major Leadership Supporters Banff International String Quartet Competition Banff Centre celebrates and deeply appreciates the commitment to developing leadership capacity across Canada, demonstrated by the following Christine and David Estate of Adam S. Hedinger generous $25,000+ supporters who provide key programming and access funding. This work is developed with support from the Peter Lougheed Anderson Leadership Initiative, in partnership with the University of Alberta, made possible by funding from the Government of Alberta.

Visionaries Founding Nexen Chair in Indigenous Leadership Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival

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Dance Programming Emerging Atlantic Artist Residency Environmental Reportage Residency

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Alan Murdock Dennis R. Shuler Benediktson Fellowship Fund Frederick Louis Crosby Leighton Studios Facility Renewal Publishing Workshop Endowment Howard and Maryam R. Newman Rick and Brune Sinneave for Mexican Artists Memorial Endowment Fund Endowment Quebecor Media Endowment 2016/17 Nikon Canada Sir Jack Lyons Charitable Trust Bess Winspear Memorial Endowment Freeze Family Career Development Lenora P. Masters Endowment R.S. Williams & Sons Company Ltd. The North Face The Slaight Family Foundation Betty Farrally Memorial Endowment Program Fund, BISQC Linda and Richard Singleton Banff International String Oboz Footwear Rosetta* and Mario* Stella Bliss Carman Award Endowment Freeze Family Instrument Fund Endowment Fund Quartet Competition Fund Supporters OneWest Event Design Suncor Energy Foundation Bobbye Ruth and Dewitt L. Potter Frelyn Memorial Endowment Liz Crockford Artists Fund Raul Urtasun - Frances Harley Osprey TD Bank Group Endowment Fund for Gail and Stephen A. 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banffcentre.ca Spring / Summer 2018 InStudio 63 LAST WORD

ALAN LUCIEN ØYEN wears many hats as both founder and artistic director of the multi-disciplinary touring company winter guests, and as Artist in I FIND THAT Residence with the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet. Øyen joins Banff Centre this summer as fac- WHEN I’M IN ulty for The Creative Gesture dance residency. He MOVEMENT, took a break from a full day of rehearsals to speak with us about his creative process and the spaces THEN I GET where he gets inspired.

VERY Q Describe your working space. CREATIVE. A I love the idea of sitting in an office as much as I love the idea of sitting in an armchair and reading, but I’m not so often in the office and I’m not so often in the armchair. I’m much more often in an airport around the chaos of daily life.

Q You choreograph, write, and direct all over the world – how do you find your environment affects your creative process? A It greatly affects the work. It’s mostly me immersed in some sort of new culture. I find that when I’m in movement, then I get very creative.

Q What hours of the day are you most productive? A I’d like to think that I can sit and drink whiskey in the evening and write, but I just fall asleep. I’m hap- piest when there is space that is open for creation in the morning. Particularly writing, because your brain is free from all of the impressions of the day; you’re pure and undisturbed by your own thoughts.

Q How has your working style or creative pro- cess changed over the years? A I trust myself more. [Before rehearsals] I worried about not being prepared, whilst now I trust that’s how I work, and I somehow have to put myself on the spot. There’s something about that tension. It’s intuitive and different than being prepared.

Q What is your favourite type of artistic work to create? A My favourite is the moment of flow which is in any kind of creative process. This happens with all of My Studio the work that I do. Whether it’s me alone writing on a bus, or in rehearsal, or when I think I understand something that is completely abstract and there is We step inside the studios of no information. It oscillates.

some of our favourite artists Q What are your top three essential tools for and thinkers to see where they fuelling your work? A I like those little Czech pencils with the tiny sharp- create their best work BY KYLA JACOBS ener in the cap on the back. If you were to speak metaphorically, waiting and listening are good because suddenly something happens and you’re listening, and then you can write it down with the Czech pencil… and a notebook. Learn more about Øyen's The Hamlet Complex and buy The Creative Gesture is generously supported by an anonymous donor. tickets at banffcentre.ca BÄCKER MATS CREDIT: PHOTO

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