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Still Moon Arts – The Fashioned Sound Body

The Fashioned Sound body is a live performance weaving music and dance together through the use of e-textiles. The performance features hand-woven textiles embedded with electronics that detect pressure. The musician and creator of the suit, Isaac Rufus Rosen-Purcell, alters the sound of his clarinet through his own movements, which are then further influenced by the dancer Isabelle Kirouac. This interplay creates a continuous feedback loop—movement generates sound, and sound sparks movement, resulting in a 10-minute tapestry of music and dance.

The performance will take place in the Colour-Me-Local Dye Garden, an outdoor community arts space created and maintained by Still Moon Arts Society and community members.

Schedule

2:00 Meet & Greet, Presentation

2:50 Fashioned Sound Body performance

3:00 Q&A, Tea & Treats

About the artists

ISAAC RUFUS is a liminal being exploring the edges, in betweens, intersections and connections of disciplines and mediums. He is immensely curious about underlying systems and their emergent properties and how the boundary between disciplines starts to become fuzzy the deeper one goes. The resulting practice has taught him many skills, from weaving, dyeing, dance, clowning, programming and electronics to wood, metal, and paperworking. He often frames his works through the lens of audio creations. As a clarinetist, he studied music composition at Concordia University, where the themes of embodiment of sounds and the clarinet came to fruition in the piece called Embodied Clarinet. Using amplification and shadows to highlight the subtle sounds and movements of clarinet and dancer. After University, he created and composed music for dance performances and films such as Constellations. He continued the embodiment of sound by giving different audio frequency physical locations in space in his work High {In} fidelity. His latest work, The Fashioned Sound Body, expands on the themes of embodiment of sound, intersections and interaction between mediums. In The Fashioned Sound Body, he links the physical touch of bodies to sound composition through the use of a hand-woven electronic textile jumpsuit.

ISABELLE KIROUAC is a transdisciplinary artist, choreographer, educator and mother living in Vancouver, on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations. Informed by over twenty years of practice in dance improvisation, somatic practices, site specific installations, immersive performances, contemporary circus, as well as more recent explorations into the realm of olfactory art, her artistic research is inspired by sensory inquiries and ecological relationships, connecting humans and more-than-humans. In collaboration with mycologist/artist Willoughby Arévalo, she created the Art & Fungi Project, developing artistic work and experiential activities inspired by fungi and how they help to shape and connect our world. Isabelle has presented her artistic work extensively across Canada, the USA, Mexico, Colombia and Europe. She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University.

Details

• Date: Saturday, March 1
• Time: 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
• Location: Colour Me Local Dye Garden, 3958 Renfrew Street #3998 Vancouver, BC
• Location note: if the weather is poor, the performance will be moved to a different venue. Ticketholders will be notified via email.
• Age: Open to ages 14+ (all ages with an adult)
• Dress for the weather: This event will take place outdoors. For your comfort, please wear weather-appropriate clothing.

Getting There

• The closest bus stop for the #16 bus is NB Boyd Diversion @ E 22 Ave (2-min walk)
• The closest bus stop for the #25 bus is E 22nd @ Renfrew (5-min walk)
• The 29th Ave Skytrain Station is a 10-minute walk away.
• There is limited free street parking in the neighbourhood.
• We recommend walking, taking the bus, riding your bike, or carpooling when possible.

Accessibility

• The Colour Me Local Dye Garden is an unpaved grass garden located in the northwest corner of Renfrew Ravine Park, and wheelchairs may require assistance.
• There is free street parking in the neighbourhood.
• Washrooms are not available on site but can be found at the Renfrew Community Centre, located a 6-minute walk away (~350 m). Renfrew Community Centre has gender-neutral washrooms available.
• There are benches available.

Land acknowledgement

The Renfrew Ravine Moon Festival and all of Still Moon Arts’ programming take place on the unceded territories of Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.

Community Inclusion Fest

This year’s event focuses on aging within diverse populations, particularly for people with disabilities and adult caregivers. Hear from BC’s Seniors Advocate, policy and non-profit leaders, and self-advocates. There will also be activities, resource tables, prizes, and more.

Join the Spectrum Runners and Rollers at the Sun Run 2025

Spectrum is hosting a Sun Run Team again this year! The run takes place on Sunday, April 27th, 2025.

We will pay the registration fee for people we support and people who are supporting the runners and rollers.

The registration link is here: https://event.vansunrun.com/168575/register/?urlcattype=t&zsecure=vsr34213

Our team name is the Spectrum Runners and Rollers.

The code for getting your registration completed is YDCAKO

Let us know if you have any questions!