m a r t e n b e r k m a n
the ecology of perception
Begin You Again
Collaborators / Artistic Team:
Choreographer / Performer / Dancer - Monique Romeiko
Collaborator / Performer / Dancer – Erin Flynn (Montreal)
Collaborator / Performer / Dancer - Aimée Dawn Robinson
Composer / Sound Designer / Live Music – Jordy Walker
S3D Video Artist / Live Video / Performance – Marten Berkman
Developer / Interaction Designer – Baptiste Bohelay (France)
Visual Artist – Helen O’Connor
Rehearsal Director – Gail Lotenberg
Lighting Designer - Bree Lucas
This work involves a new, experimental process of creating a collaborative yet personal dance piece. We seem “limited” by our human bodies, and every artist in this project is interested in using dance to either enhance their artwork/art form, or to use their artwork/art form to enhance the body.
My Brain is Plastic
A troubled girl from a messed up family who is engaging in addictive and self-harming behaviours. A neuroscientist assists us in understanding the brain functioning involved in addictions through storytelling and interactive media.
My Brain is Plastic is about trauma, neuroplasticity and ultimately healing and hope.
Artistic Director & Playwright: Arlin McFarlane
(mb: live camera performance)
photo by Max Fraser
Map of the Land, Map of the Stars
(projection design marten berkman)
Map of the Land, Map of the Stars, directed by Yvette Nolan and Michelle Olson, weaves together untold story-beads from our northern land. Generations of women walk their ancestors’ trails. People gather at fish camp. A wartime highway is built on the backs of African-American soldiers, transforming the land and people forever. Newcomers fall in love with the land and the people living on it.
In this powerful ensemble piece, blending theatre, dance and music, we search for the trail forward together.
photo by Bruce Barrett
photo by Bruce Barrett
photo by marten berkman
