The portal between the wheel of fortune and strength.
We are bound to the inexorable cycles of nature and life: spirals of expansion and contraction. Just as a wheel relies on its spokes and axle to turn, culture depends on movement to express, transform, and renew itself. Strength arises not from isolation, but from the collective: the instinctive, symbiotic drive of living beings to work together toward something greater. Culture and ritual hold us, offering the framework through which the flow of our lives takes form. The wheel is never perfect: its imperfections are what make it human.
Dance video and body painting: Mandala
Erica Otto (concept, choreographer & dancer)
Natacha Trottier (body painting artist)
Amir Fishman (videographer & editor)
Brain Aikens (photographer)
Ciarra Saylor painting assistant
Dancers: Sea to Sky Dance Collective (Carmen Chornell, Dayna Goldman, Jenna Strain, Marnie Tocheniuk, Natalie Szponar, Paige Freeman, Robyn Monk)
The spokes of the wheel of fortune shine in prismatic hues: magenta, cyan, and yellow. They merge and dissolve into one another, their edges blurred, their individuality absorbed into a shifting spectrum. A kaleidoscopic mandala eternally in motion.
Music
Micheal Hewitt
Repeating rhythm and percussion set to elevating and descending melodies evokes: the sense of a spinning wheel, repeating, ever moving; the continuation of time, as life unfolds moment to moment; trancelike states in its steady and predictable cadence. What goes up will come down, and will inevitably rise again.