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FOUNDED IN 1993, THE HOLY BODY TATTOO SEEKS A PERFORMANCE LANGUAGE which gathers a sense of humanity through effort, repetition, scale and humility. Co-Artistic Directors and Choreographers Noam Gagnon and Dana Gingras have performed independently for many of Canada’s leading choreographers and have danced together since 1987. The company reflects upon (and reflects outwardly) the concerns, ideas and attitudes of contemporary popular culture, locating a sense of conscience and hope through intense physicality and deeply-sought courage.

The Holy Body Tattoo has received both critical and audience acclaim with performances in Canada, U.S. and Europe. Employing multimedia elements in film, video projection and music, the work of The Holy Body Tattoo explores the nature of human endurance through ideas of surrender, fragility and broken elegance. Contrasting qualities of receptivity, intimacy and trust with uncertainty, loss and the relinquishing of effort, the company seeks to honour the human capacity for resilience, perseverance and the will required to achieve it.

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FLASH COMPONENTS: monumental, Running Wild, Circa, Our Brief Eternity, and Poetry & Apocalypse.

Information on the works, reviews, video, downloadable desktops featuring photography by Tessa Bartholomeusz, Steven R Gilmore, Perry Zavitz and Chris Randle and ambient music by Steven Severin, The Tiger Lillies, Warren Ellis, and godspeed! you black emporer. Broadband (cable/dsl) connection is recommended.

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