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In celebration of Co.ERASGA's 10th Anniversary season in 2010, we are pleased to present you exciting works. Stay posted and join us as we bring the following events and new creations.

Spring 2010

-ORIENTIK/PORTRAIT returns to life in celebration and partnership with Asian Heritage Month of May in 2010 with presentation starting in Vancouver and a national tour to Montreal, Fredericton, Toronto, Winnipeg and Calgary. A signature piece for Co.ERASGA, OrienTik/Portrait combines the diverse fusion of contemporary dance, piano and taiko-percussion, with acclaimed featured Toronto dancer Andrea Nann.

Summer 2010

-EXPOSE an international new work between Canada, France and Uruguay. Three distinguished international dance artists create this piece: Parisian Christine Loiseau (Cie Mezzencorps), Uruguayan, Martin Inthamoussú (Cian Complot) and Canadian Alvin Tolentino (Co.ERASGA). The three gay artists join forces to create dance as a political voice for GAY PRIDE in Art in summer 2010.

Fall 2010

-SHADOW MACHINE?A large-scale interdisciplinary project of Co.ERASGA is set to unveil in the fall of 2010 in partnership with W2 Media Arts Society and Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre. Shadow Machine focuses on Vancouver's shifting histories of industrial development and labour force to date. Featuring a core of dancers, and media artists Ken Gregory from Winnipeg, Carol Sawyer and Peter Courtemanche, both from Vancouver.

2010 Exchanges3 (with visiting artist TBA)

December 9-12, 2009

ADAMEVE/Man-Woman

What started as a 20-minute work commissioned for the 20th anniversary of the Dancing on the Edge Festival in 2008, ADAM-EVE/Man-Woman comes to its full-length creation. In Co.ERASGA's new work, artistic director and choreographer Alvin Erasga Tolentino challenges the social and archetypal place of man and woman, identity and gender. This dance creation reveals the body as passive and aggressive, yin and yang, masculine and feminine. ADAMEVE/Man-Woman features two of Vancouver's most charismatic dancers Alison Denham and Billy Marchenski.Together they capture and interpret Tolentino's unique and eccentric choreographic style. ADAMEVE/Man-Woman poses a poetic, strange and tender journey. Tolentino's fascinating and startling physical language exudes boldness with simplicity, complexity and sublime minimalism.

Choreography: Alvin Erasga Tolentino Dancers: Alison Denham and Billy Marchenski, Lighting: James Proudfoot, Music and Sound Design by Jeff Corness

(World Premiere) December 9-12, 2009 @ 8pm The Firehall Arts Centre

Box Office Info: The Firehall Box Office 604 689-0926 280 East Cordova St Vancouver, BC

Contact Info: The Firehall Arts Centre: www.firehallartscentre.ca

Co.ERASGA Fundraising Gala in conjunction with the world premiere of ADAMEVE/Man-Woman

An evening to support the art of dance for Co.ERASGA

TICKETS: $60 (full event) or $35 (without performance)

Thursday, December 10th, 2009 @ Firehall Arts Centre Theatre and Studio 280 East Cordova St. Vancouver, BC

Includes performance of ADAMEVE/Man-Woman at 8:00 p.m. Followed by a martini, hors d'oeuvres, auction and other surprises from 9:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.

Info: 604 687-6185 or info@companyerasgadance.ca

EXCHANGES 2

December 14-19

Experienced one of south America's best, the Uruguayan acclaimed contemporary dance artist Martin Inthamoussu artistic director of COMPLOT

Contemporary dance technique and Choreographic workshop in RECOVERING OUTER SPACE/Composition workshop for non conventional spaces.

Aims: The intention is to offer a workshop/lab that will deal with contemporary tools of theatrical and choreographical composition applied to the performance moment and its relationship with a public or non conventional space. Through the classes we will work on basic training that will lead the participants towards a context in which he will be able to develop a theoretical and practical work at the same time. The research, invention, creation and composition of movement in the space are central in this workshop proposal.

(Please contact Co.ERASGA 604 687 6185 for further inquiry.)