RECENT WORKS
(with links to videos and scores)
ANIMATING GESTURES - FORTHCOMING (NO VIDEO)
BASED ON THE MOVEMENT FOUND IN HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY WORKS OF ANIMATION
Animating Gestures is a forthcoming 40-minute duet created in collaboration with interpreters Danielle Baskerville and Johanna Bergfelt, media artist Hannah Schallert, sound artist Benjamin Boles and textile artist Alicia Zwicewicz composed of interpretations of the movement of bodies (both abstract and figurative) from over 200 works of Canadian and international works of animation from the last century. Animating Gestures is funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Toronto Arts Council.
100 YEARS OF CINEMATIC SOLITUDE IN 300 MOVING PIECES - 2022 (EXCERPT)
BASED ON THE MOVEMENT OF WOMEN FROM GLOBAL CINEMA
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VIDEO SCORE
100 Years of Cinematic Solitude in 300 Moving Pieces is a 40-minute solo created in collaboration with interpreter Danielle Baskerville, media artist Hannah Schallert, sound artist Benjamin Boles and textile artist Alicia Zwicewicz composed of chronologically organized excerpts of movement sourced from the performances of 300 different female "icons" from global cinema. 100 Years of Cinematic Solitude was funded by the Toronto Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.
GREEN WORLD - 2020
BASED ON THE BERLIN PARK SYSTEM
GREEN WORLD is an unfinished work (delayed/postponed by Covid-19) based on looking at the urban topography and human and animal interactions (nature-cultures) within and across Berlin's "green network" of historical and contemporary parks. GREEN WORLD was funded by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and supported by HZT Berlin.
FOSSIL - 2019 (FULL WORK)
BASED ON ANIMAL REMAINS AND MUSEUM TOPOGRAPHY AT THE BERLIN NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
FOSSIL is based on the fossilized and preserved animal remains staged within Berlin's Natural History Museum. Created in collaboration with Venezuelan dancer Orlando Rodriguez, FOSSIL is predicated on using museum topography and the forms of extinct and contemporaneous lifeforms to create detailed choreography with affective and kinetic resonances. FOSSIL was supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Radialsystem V, and the Sasha Waltz & Guests company.
GARDEN -2018 (FULL WORK)
BASED ON PLANT BODIES AND TOPOGRAPHY OF THE EDWARDIAN GARDEN AT THE TORONTO SPADINA MUSEUM
GARDEN is based on the topography and species distribution of the formal garden located behind the Manor at the Spadina Museum. Working with Wendy Woodworth, head gardener at the Museum, Immer participated in the labour of maintaining the garden while familiarizing ourselves with its layout and biological composition -absorbing information about the history and design from Wendy, and
kinaesthetic, visual, auditory and tactile sensations from our experience with the garden itself. GARDEN was supported by the Toronto Arts Council.
ARCHE - 2018 (FULL WORK)
BASED ON THE ANIMAL BODIES AND TOPOGRAPHY OF THE BERLIN ZOO
ARK - 2016 (FULLWORK)
BASED ON THE ANIMAL BODIES AND TOPOGRAPHY OF THE TORONTO ZOO
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ARK and ARCHE are poetic chronological condensations of somatic “journeys” through
zoological gardens organised around the diverse bodies and movements of foreign and familiar invertebrates, fish, lizards, reptiles, birds and mammals. The preliminary structures for the works were determined by the actual “human” numerous trails, exhibits and buildings at the zoo and choreographic gestures and movements were determined by the dancer’s sensorial impressions of the over 800 species housed at both institutions. The pieces unfold in chronological order, with entrances and exits from the zoo being the beginnings and ends of both of the pieces; the content of the works is determined primarily by the space and beings encountered in the real world and the dances materialise as continual shiftings between contrasting bodily states varying in scale, power, speed, dimension and direction. ARK and ARCHE were supported by the Toronto and Ontario Arts Councils.