Upcoming Performances:

• Bob's Lounge @ the 6th Annual Dance Centre Open House
  Sep 15th, 2007 - View Schedule
  at: ScotiaBank Dance Centre

battery opera was founded in 1995 by dancer/choreographer Lee Su-Feh and writer/singer David McIntosh. Underlying the practice of battery opera is a dynamic dialogue and mutual attraction between opposing tensions, an exchange that is sensitive to the nuances of power and influence in the socio-political history we have inherited. This dialogue delves into the ever-shifting area where forms and traditions, cultures and habits meet, merge or argue. Our practice reveals the contemporary body as a site of intersecting and displaced cultures, histories and nationalities. Inherent in this practice is a search for language that both embraces and frees us from the assumptions of traditional performance structures. We ground our research in the martial arts, looking to it for lessons in the expression of a functional body, a body governed by physics as well as by human relationships. From this foundation we build a practice that is open to infinite avenues of investigation as we explore the power of this body to transform space, time and perception; a body that is at once fragile and powerful; a body that breathes, speaks, sings, thinks, moves, dances. We are interested in art that addresses the transformation of space, body, time and ultimately the transformation of spirit.