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Modern dance keeps
choreographer busy

From page 18

weight and image.“

Kleeman danced with the
Winnipeg Contemporary Dancers
for six years, then switched hats to
begin concentrating on her own
work, (Kleeman has spent the last
three years creating her own
repertoire. and says she isn’t inter-
ested in performing other people's
work — at least not for now.)

So it was ironic to hear that
one of the highlights of her career
was her work on a dance film, a
collaboration with fellow
Winnipeg dancer Fiona Drinnan.

“The film itselfavas a bunch of
difficult images and, to be perfect-
ly honest, the music was a kind of
noise —- there was no melody.
The reason it was a highiight, !
think, was because it was .o hard
to do.”

’ Despite that success, she’s not
sure she would do it again. “I
enjoy wor'.ing with composers
but cel aborating with another
cho, eographer is just too hard. |
‘ave very set ideas about what |
want to do.”

Lately, those ideas have to do
with developing her own style of
movement. While she has trouble
describing it in words, husband

AUGUST

Tom Fijal sums up best, “Ve
hada little puppy al the studio
once who we called ‘No Bones
Barney’ because he just flopped
around. Tom said that some of the
work | do looks as if | have no
bones. It's very fluid; [don’t doa
lot of shapes.”

Since moving to Vancouver in
1990, Kleeman has had no short-
age of work, performing at
Dancing on the Edge, Women in
View and Seattle’s Bumbershoot
Festival.

She says it’s taken a lot of hard
work carving out a name for her-
self, but in all these-years she has
never once considered quitting.

“I don’t want to give the
impression that dance is thriving,”
she says, “because it is a struggle.
But you can’t be negative.”

Peter Bingham, artistic director
of EDAM whose psychological
exploration A Shadow of Myself
will be one of the works featured
tomorrow night, agrees. .

’ “Yes, it’s easy to be negative
(about the state af dance), but I
have to take Desirée’s side. The
work itself is getting better and
I'm encouraged by it. Sure, there
are troubles with audience, but
that is solved by the works getting
better.”

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