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August 28.1988 - Lynn Valley Echo

dance

tribute tonight

* broHTy- YEAR-OLD Astrid Fischer- Credo is: celebrating
30 years in. Lynn’ Valley in a particularly creative way — she

and-son Cornelius are performing a dance tribute tonight at
the Firchall Theatre in Vancouver. .

The family immigrated to
Canada from Germany in 1958,
when Cornelius was seven years
old, and settled in a rented cottage
on a Dempsey Road estate that still
éxists today. Astrid says they
planned to stay there for a litle

“while .before finding someplace
bigger..' a

Thirty years later and now a

widow, Astrid is still in the Hule
~ cottage she. could never bear to
“ partwith, —,

In that 30-year interval, Astrid
touk classes im exercise and cre-
anwe\ dance some from the
Yanover, School “in. West Van-

yuver. Tonight she isperforming
with her soh, who owns his own
dance company, in a joint tribute
to their life together in Canada. *

The program includes a
mother/son wo jointly
choreographed by Astre_and Cor-
nelius, an cee minute “dance of

‘ Astrid’s called~My Life Story; and
performances | Vby some\ of ‘the
members of X Cornelius’ dance
troupe who have volunteered their
time.

“I's a very collaborative ef-
fort,"’ commented Cornelius.

He has recently returned to
Vancouver pursuing the next stage
of a dance career that has spanned
three continents.

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Having spent his high school
_ years at Argyle Secondary where
! he was ‘‘hasically an.athelete,”* not
a dancer, Cornelius went on to
SFU where he studied kinesiology.

It was there, at the age of 20, that

he became interested in dance.

Twos years duter, in 1972, he
went 10 the Toronto Dance
Theatre. From Toronto he travel-
led to Jondon, New York and
Japan, working in different com-
panies along the way.

In 1986, he’ returiied to Van-
couver for Expo, ‘and: decided it
was lime to stay.

he has his own company,
~ f

the-Bance Corps, previously called
Mountain Dance Theatre before he
took it aver six months ago. Cor-
nelius says the mandate of the
group is ‘trying to employ and
deyelop focat and independent
chorcographers."*

Future plans include an evening
at the Firehall Theatre in
September as part of the Fringe
Festival, a major performance
after Christmas and educational
workshops and performances in
community centres under. sponsor-
ship from Van City.

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ASTRID FISCHER-CREDO has lived in a cottage on a Lyon Valley Dempsey Road estate for 30 years. To-
night she and her son n Cornelius a are performing a dance tribute to her life in Canada.

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