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the dances
themselves. Mascall is mesmerized by the idea
that art might precede the artist. Mascall is showing us the artist as
intercessor, the shaman who carries the messages and visions back to us
from another realm."
Mascall's
choreography is irreverent movement steeped in the influences of contact
improvisation, ballet and modern dance. It challenges both the dancer and
the viewer with a psychological edge that etches itself into the mind.
"A conjunction of the incongruous and a pastiche of the visual,
musical and perceptual."
She has
been called a visionary, a lone swimmer, an enfant terrible and a
maverick. There is no shortages of epithets to describe Jennifer Mascall.
She is undeniably original, exuberantly prolific, passionately engaged and
impossible to summarize. Her work has been acclaimed in Helsinki, London,
Amsterdam, Edinburgh and other European centres for its remarkable
originality and compelling contemporary expression. It has been presented
across Canada.
In 1987
she, along with six other radical independents, formed the collective EDAM
(Experimental Dance and Music) in Vancouver. During this period she forged
works including Spine Lines.
Jennifer Mascall continues to define and redefine a style all her own.  Return to the
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