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Performance: Murphy (Amber Downie-Back & Tamar Tabori)Born from the frustration of the patterns of placed and often inorganic choreography, Murphy’s Law has very much inspired and become the driving force behind the work. MURPHY started as a collaborative effort with an exploratory approach to chance choreography and performance. Working with authentic movement and durational improvisations, MURPHY was shaped from organic pathways – it truly lives in the moment, grounding the choreography to the concept of Murphy’s Law. Whatever can happen, or go wrong, is looked upon as opportunity. In-direct contrast, Yhprum’s Law states: Everything, that can work, will work. MURPHY explores the many combinations of things that can, and will, work. The duality between these two laws helps the performers to engage with multiplicity and discover what may come from the things that go “wrong” and the things that go “right”. While maintaining healthy dance practices and striving for optimal performance, the “hiccups” that occur within the process are cues that, choreographically, the unfolding of the piece is not in-line with the body’s natural pathways. MURPHY is a meeting of two bodies and the discovery of things that work; an exploration of the collaboration of the mind, body and spirit; a celebration of moving and honouring the body’s limits and capacities—working within its natural biomechanical parameters and loving its restrictions.
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Amber Downie-Back
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Amber Downie-Back and Tamar Tabori are Contemporary Dancers, Collaborators, and emerging professionals based in Montreal. With Amber coming from a classical modern dance background and Tamar with a classical ballet background, they were able to merge their individual styles to create a specific movement vocabulary and approach to dance performance and choreography. The style embodies energy transfers, shifts in weight, contrast between isolated staccato and fluidity in dynamic quality to create the self-titled approach to creative work and movement, known as Murphy, in their approach-titled pilot piece, MURPHY.
Amber and Tamar are dedicated to organic and natural movement pathways. They are also interested in the intersection of dance and other art mediums, believing there is too much of a divide between disciplines; Murphy strives to approach art universally and inclusively. The goal as choreographers, performers, and intermedia collaborators, is to use the arts and dance to influence, investigate, educate, and make bridges between imagination and what can be accomplished. Murphy strives to create engaging and unexpected choreographic performance with clear subject matter, presented honestly, and in a way that opens both performer and viewer to opportunities and the possibility of individual and collective change. |