Repertoire

From the moment Bailie takes the stage, her presence is endearing. This dancer demonstrates impressive breadth through bound and unbound energy, skilfully articulating her movements to the tune of every last finger and toe. Watching Bailie is a pleasure as her effortless transitions from liquid to static are an energized reflection of real-life conundrums.

- The Vancouver Sun

Gearshifting Performance Works repertoire celebrates over 50 years of modern dance history! This repertoire includes traditional masterpieces as well as new creations that reflect on current trends.

A Theory of Machines
Choreography: Jolene Bailie, 2011
Music: Ben Frost
Solo, 7 minutes

A Glimpse into Sensory Life, Infinite World
Choreography: Jolene Bailie, 2011
Lighting: Hugh Conacher
Sound: Susan Chafe
Costumes: Anne Armit
An ensemble work for five dancers, 15 minutes.

The Hybrid Human Collection
The Hybrid Human collection includes the fifty-eight minute full-length feature work as well as a twenty minute work for proscenium stage, a two hour installation work for a gallery and/or museum setting, an eighteen minute “ambush” of dance for a public gathering, nine short bursts of dance ranging in duration from two to eleven minutes and numerous, short, site specific creations for a gallery/public setting.
Choreography: Jolene Bailie, 2010-2011
Visual Artist, Collaborator and Project Conception: Wanda Koop
Lighting and Media: Hugh Conacher
Sound: Susan Chafe
Costumes: Anne Armit
Masks: Brenda Belmonte

Sensory Life, Infinite World
Choreography: Jolene Bailie, 2010
Video and Lighting: Hugh Conacher
Sound: Susan Chafe
Set: Jolene Bailie and Hugh Conacher
Costumes: Anne Armit
Full length work for seven dancers, 70 minutes

Give and Take in the Kingdom of Love
Choreography: Jolene Bailie, 2009
Video Backdrop: Hugh Conacher
Costumes: Jolene Bailie
Headdresses: Brenda Belmonte
Trio, 8 minutes

inanimate jungles have clocks
based on Everything’s Coming Up Roses
Concept and Choreography: Jolene Bailie, 2009
Text: Jem Rolls and Jolene Bailie
Video: Hugh Conacher and Andrew Milne
Sound: Michael Wright
Costumes: Anne Armit
Headdresses: Brenda Belmonte
Full-length solo work, 45 minutes

Everything’s Coming Up Roses
Concept and Choreography: Jolene Bailie, 2009
Text: Jem Rolls and Jolene Bailie
Video: Hugh Conacher and Andrew Milne
Sound: Michael Wright
Costumes: Anne Armit
Headdresses: Brenda Belmonte
Full-length solo work, 75 minutes

The Green Zone
Choreography: Deborah Dunn, Montreal, 2008
Solo

Terrain
Choreorgraphy by: Marie-Josee Chartier, Toronto, 2008
Solo

private i
Created by: Denise Clarke, Calgary, 2007
Music composed by: Paul Aucoin
Music performed by: The Hylozoists
Video: Hugh Conacher
Additional music by: Jimmy Ruffian
Costume: Denise Clarke
Full-length solo work

SWITCHBACK
Choreography: Jolene Bailie, 2006
Costume: Anne Armit
Headdresses: Brenda Belmonte
Solo, 18 minutes

Escape
Choreography: Anna Sokolow, New York City, 1955
Staging and Direction: Jim May
Solo

The End?
Choreography: Anna Sokolow, New York City, 1955
Staging and Direction: Jim May
Solo

Climbing to the Moon
Choreography: Bill Evans, Brockport, New York
Solo

Bell/Anti Bell
Choreography: Jolene Bailie, 2005
Costume: Anne Armit
Solo

Dances For Isadora
(Five Evocations of Isadora Duncan)
Choreography: José Limón, New York, 1971
Reconstruction and Direction: Nina Watt
Costumes: Anne Armit after Charles D. Tomlinson
Five solo works

Freddy
Choreography: Rachel Browne, Winnipeg
Costume: Anne Armit after Randall Newman
Solo

Broken Columns
Choreography: Bill Evans, Brockport, New York, 2004
Costume: Wanda Farian and Sandi Cain
Headdress: Brenda Belmonte
Solo

A Short Voyage
Choreography: Marie-Josee Chartier, Toronto, 2004
Costume: Michael Tong
Solo

To Somewhere Else
Choreography: Marc Boivin, Montreal, 2004
Solo

walking thru myself
Choreography: Joe Laughlin, Vancouver, 2004
Costume: Anne Armit
Solo

The Illegibilty of this World
Choreography: Julia Sasso, Toronto
Solo

Mara
Choreography: Stephanie Ballard, Winnipeg
Solo

After Words
Choreography: Gaile Petursson-Hiley, Winnipeg
Solo

Etude
Choreography: Stephanie Ballard, Winnipeg
Solo