Ephemeral Artifacts: Travis Knights

January 11-21, 2022 / The Old Fire Hall / Streaming 8am-11am, 4pm-7pm

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Through a partnership with Creative Lab North, and in association with the Yukon Arts Centre, Pivot Festival 2022 brings a video & audio installation from renowned tap dancer Travis Knights and Toronto choreographer Brandy Leary to the windows of the Old Fire Hall with audio and storytelling. Throughout the festival, everyone in town will be able to come down and view the installation from Front Street or from the riverside. 

In this edition of Ephemeral Artifacts, Knights explores the connection of jazz and tap carried through divine Black bodies. Through this work he honours the lineages, bodies, and communities that have shaped tap dance over time through oral tradition, context, form, and relationship in a non-linear reflection on those we lost and a visceral act of re-member-ing them in a way that acknowledges the unforgettable marks they left behind. As Knight’s tap teacher Ethel Bruneau asked, “Whose shoulders are you standing on?” Choreographer and project designer, Brandy Leary will attend to install the show.