This dancer demonstrates 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.
Gearshifting Performance Works repertoire
celebrates over 60 years of modern dance history. The repertoire changes season to season and has included traditional masterpieces. New creations are typically the highlight of each season. The companies repertoire includes 39 works by Artistic Director, Jolene Bailie, including ten full length works, outdoor works, site-specific works, and durational works. In addition, the company commissions and presents work by Guest Artists. A selection of past and present repertoire is listed below.
Schemas, 1-5
Choreography: Jolene Bailie
Ensemble work in five sections, seven dancers, full length work.
Premiere: April 27, 2019, The Gas Station Arts Centre, Winnipeg.
Feedback
Created by: Jolene Bailie
Duet
Premiere: July 19, 2018, Tom Hendry Warehouse, Winnipeg
The Running of the Bulls
Created by: Jolene Bailie
Trio
Premiere: May 06, 2018, The Gas Station Arts Centre, Winnipeg
Phase Wash
Choreography: Jolene Bailie
Ensemble, 8 performers, full length work
Premiere: April 20, 2018, The Asper Centre for Theatre and Film, Winnipeg
Alex Colville and I
Created and performed by: Jolene Bailie
Premiere: October 14, 2017, The Rachel Browne Theatre, Winnipeg
Mapping Danger
Choreography: Jolene Bailie
Trio
Premiere: October 14, 2017, The Rachel Browne Theatre, Winnipeg
Sending Love
Choreography: Rachel Browne
Staging and Direction: Jolene Bailie, trio
GPW’s Premiere: October 14, 2017, The Rachel Browne Theatre, Winnipeg
petites danses
Choreography by Guest Choreographer: Marie-Josee Chartier
Ensemble, 15 performers, full length work
Premiere: April 21, 2017, The Gas Station Arts Centre, Winnipeg
Game On
Choreography: Jolene Bailie
Trio
Premiere: Game On has enjoyed a plethora of performances in various settings, both indoors and outdoors, and in various re-incarnations, since 2016.
Hybrid Human, for three dancers
Choreography: Jolene Bailie
Solo followed by trio, site specific for the in/future festival
Sound: Susan Chafe
Costumes: Anne Armit
Premiere of this rendition: September 24, 2016, Ontario Place, Toronto
Dancing Bodies
Created by: Jolene Bailie
Trio
Sound: Susan Chafe
Costumes: Jolene Bailie and Wanda Farian
Premiere: November 06, 2016 at The Gas Station Arts Centre, Winnipeg
Dancing Bodies was created with material from from the full length work, Happyland.
Daphnis and and Chloe
Choreography: Jolene Bailie
Ensemble, 5 dancers, 7 minutes
Premiere: May 28, 2016, The Winnipeg Art Gallery
Happyland
Choreography: Jolene Bailie
Ensemble, 7 dancers, 67 minutes, full length work
Sound: Susan Chafe
Premiere: April 15, 2016, The Rachel Browne Theatre, Winnipeg
The Judgement of Paris
Choreography: Jolene Bailie
Ensemble, 5 dancers, 6 minutes
Premiere: February 11, 2016, The Winnipeg Art Gallery
Maenad for Berlin Dancer
Choreography: Jolene Bailie
Solo
Premiere: February 11, 2016, The Winnipeg Art Gallery
Olympus Fanfare
Choreography: Jolene Bailie
Ensemble, 5 dancers, 7 minutes
Premiere: February 11, 2016, The Winnipeg Art Gallery
An Aspect of Alterity
Choreography and Performance: Jolene Bailie
Solo
Costume: Neda Vukas
Premiere: October 25, 2015, The Gas Station Arts Centre, Winnipeg
Mirage on the Muses Plateau
Choreography: Jolene Bailie with dancers
Trio, 2 hours
An outdoor, durational performance.
Premiere: September 26, 2015, Nuit Blanche at The Winnipeg Art Gallery
Inner Being
Choreography: Jolene Bailie
Quartet, 14 minutes
Sound: Susan Chafe
Costumes: Neda Vukas
Premiere: April 17, 2015, The Gas Station Arts Centre, Winnipeg
Being Outer
Choreography and text: Jolene Bailie
5 Dancers, 18 minutes
Sound: Susan Chafe
Premiere: April 17, 2015, The Gas Station Arts Centre, Winnipeg
Hybrid Human, Today Solo
Choreography and Performance: Jolene Bailie
Solo, 16 minutes
Sound: Susan Chafe
Costume: Anne Armit
Premiere: January 31, 2015, Today Art Museum, Beijing
Are You Having Any Fun?
Choreography and Text: Jolene Bailie
Trio
Premiere: October 26, 2014, The Gas Station Arts Centre, Winnipeg
Lost
Choreography and Text: Jolene Bailie
Trio, 9 minutes
Premiere: September 20, 2014, The Canadian Museum for Human Rights’ RightsFest, Winnipeg
Hybrid Human, Hybrid Xi’an
Choreography: Jolene Bailie
6 minute Solo followed by 14 minute Trio
Sound: Susan Chafe
Costumes: Anne Armit
Premiere: August 09, 2014 at The Xian Art Museum, Xi’an, China
Eat All You Want/The Top? and the further development, All You Can Eat/The Top?
Created by: Jolene Bailie
5 dancers, 60 minutes
Sound: Susan Chafe
Premiere, Eat All You Want/The Top?: May 02, 2014, The Asper Centre for Theatre and Film, Winnipeg
Premiere, All You Can Eat/The Top?: July 17, 2014, The Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre Mainstage
A Lemon For Your Thoughts
Created and Performed by: Jolene Bailie
Solo
A humorous and theatrical contemporary dance solo with props and text. Based on the theme “Tools of the Trade”.
Premiere: October 27, 2013 at The Gas Station Arts Centre, Winnipeg
Set and Re-Set
Created by: Jolene Bailie
Trio, 22 minutes
Using play, interruption and memory to look at the impact and imprint that previous human interactions have on our understanding of the present moment. A site specific contemporary dance work created for The Winnipeg Art Gallery’s Nuit Blanche. Theatrical, with text and props. Originally performed repeatedly, six shows throughout the large scale event.
Premiere: September 28, 2013 at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in Gallery 7, Winnipeg
Aspects of Alterity
Choreography: Jolene Bailie
5 dancers, 45 minutes
Lighting: Hugh Conacher
Costumes: Neda Vukas
Partially motivated by the imprint and aspect of intangible lived experiences and how these imprints and aspects can impact within our recollections so profoundly that the intangible memory over rides any tangible source or evidence of the event. This recollection, or memory, becomes it’s own otherness and a distilled environment for the dance. Also influenced by the geography of the prairies, readings about John Cage and Jolene Bailie’s personal experiences with Rachel Browne.
Premiere: November 16, 2012 at The Gas Station Arts Centre, Winnipeg
A Conception of Mentality
Created and Performed by: Jolene Bailie
Solo
Costume: Anne Armit
A humorous and theatrical contemporary dance solo questioning the power that repetition, daily connundrums and muffling have on our sense of self worth. With text and props.
Premiere: October 21, 2012 at the Gas Station Arts Centre, Winnipeg
Gloria’s Sensoria
Created and Performed by: Jolene Bailie
Solo with text, 12 minutes
A contemporary dance solo questioning the power struggle bewteen human beings and technology, suirvellence and what is living versus what is an inanimate object.
Premiere: July 15, 2012 at The American Dance Festival, Durham, North Carolina
Inspiro
Choreography: Jolene Bailie
5 dancers, 45 minutes
Lighting and Media: Hugh Conacher
Sound: Susan Chafe
Motivated by the impact that wind turbines have on the flight paths of migratory birds.
Premiere: April 20, 2012 at The Asper Centre for Theatre and Film, Winnipeg
A Theory of Machines
Choreography: Jolene Bailie
Solo, 7 minutes
The dancer in this dance is potentially a controlled and manipulated decoy of a human being.
Premiere: October 02, 2011 at The Royal Winnipeg Ballet Founders Studio, Winnipeg
Landscape Synergy
Choreography: Jolene Bailie
5 dancers, three hours
A site specific outdoor work for five dancers on and around the large ramp outside The Winnipeg Art Gallery. An ongoing, durational performance, three hours in length at The Winnipeg Art Gallery’s Nuit Blanche.
Premiere: October 01, 2011 at The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg
A Glimpse into Sensory Life, Infinite World
Choreography: Jolene Bailie, 2011
5 dancers, 15 minutes
Lighting: Hugh Conacher
Sound: Susan Chafe
Costumes: Anne Armit
Created from the full length work, Sensory Life, Infinite World. The human form reveals a pure and intuitive intelligence through grace, suppleness and ease to evoke a supportive relationship from within.
The Hybrid Human Collection of Works
The Hybrid Human collection includes the fifty-six 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, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Visual Artist, Collaborator and Project Conception: Wanda Koop
Lighting and Media: Hugh Conacher
Sound: Susan Chafe
Costumes: Anne Armit
Masks: Brenda Belmonte
Hybrid Human explores the constructed notions of robotics and ideas around the disembodied experience, consciousness, creativity, artificial intelligence and artificial life. Created in conjunction with The Winnipeg Art Gallery’s exhibition, “Wanda Koop… on the edge of experience”.
Premieres of dances from the collection: The Winnipeg Art Gallery in Winnipeg, The National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Arts Court in Ottawa, The Gas Station Arts Centre, The Firehall Arts Centre in Vancouver, The Betty Oliphant Theatre in Toronto, Xi’an Art Museum in Xi’an, China, The Today Art Museum in Beijing, China, and Ontario Place in Toronto.
Sensory Life, Infinite World
Choreography: Jolene Bailie
7 dancers, 70 minutes
Video and Lighting: Hugh Conacher
Sound: Susan Chafe
Set: Jolene Bailie and Hugh Conacher
Costumes: Anne Armit
Inspired by the seemingly limitless possibilities and co-operative relationships within plant and animal life. A conceptual and supportive ecosystem is created in the dance that is invented without the framing of regulated time, the natural pull of gravity or the weight of today’s modern society. Creating a possible scenario for intelligence while adapting to a ripple effect of foreign matter.
Premiere: February 19, 2010 at The Asper Centre for Theatre and Film, Winnipeg
Give and Take in the Kingdom of Love
Choreography: Jolene Bailie
Trio, 8 minutes
Video Backdrop: Hugh Conacher
Costumes: Jolene Bailie
Headdresses: Brenda Belmonte
The internal and external pokes of sensuality are counter balanced by the weight of control and reservation. Jolene’s own feist, logic and dreamt up fictional paradise give form to a rhythmic and precise trio.
Premiere: November 10, 2009 at The Gas Station Arts Centre
inanimate jungles have clocks
based on Everything’s Coming Up Roses
Concept and Choreography: Jolene Bailie
Solo, 45 minutes
Text: Jem Rolls and Jolene Bailie
Video: Hugh Conacher and Andrew Milne
Sound: Michael Wright
Costumes: Anne Armit
Headdresses: Brenda Belmonte
A fantasical fable in a quirky, post-modern fishbowl. A multi-media fusion of dance, theatre and video creates an experience where corporate soul-sucking, animalistic responses and absurd, real life conundrums are lived out in a dream like nightmare.
Premiere: July 15, 2009 at The Manitoba Theatre for Young People, Winnipeg
Everything’s Coming Up Roses
Concept and Choreography: Jolene Bailie
Solo, 75 minutes
Text: Jem Rolls and Jolene Bailie
Video: Hugh Conacher and Andrew Milne
Sound: Michael Wright
Costumes: Anne Armit
Headdresses: Brenda Belmonte
Sensory overload, input/output and time propel Jolene Bailie into a rose-chasing heroine bombarded by the real world. A response to the massive overload of input we are forced to accept everyday.
Premiere: April 24, 2009 at The Asper Centre for Theatre and Film, Winnipeg
The Green Zone
Choreography: Deborah Dunn, Montreal
Commissioned Solo
Premiere: May 03, 2008 at The Rachel Browne Theatre, Winnipeg
Terrain
Choreography by: Marie-Josee Chartier, Toronto
Commissioned Solo
Costume: Anne Armit
Premiere: February 21, 2008 at The Joyce SoHo, New York City
private i
Created by: Denise Clarke, Calgary
Music composed by: Paul Aucoin
Music performed by: The Hylozoists
Video: Hugh Conacher
Additional music by: Jimmy Ruffian
Costume: Denise Clarke
Full-length Commissioned Solo
Premiere: May 04, 2007 at The Rachel Browne Theatre, Winnipeg
Switchback
Choreography: Jolene Bailie, 2006
Solo, 18 minutes
Costume: Anne Armit
Headdresses: Brenda Belmonte
Through repetition and tension, Jolene is on guard. A physically arresting piece.
Premiere: April 27, 2006 at The Rachel Browne Theatre, Winnipeg
Escape
Choreography: Anna Sokolow, New York City, 1955
Staging and Direction: Jim May
Reconstructed historical solo
Company Premiere: April 27, 2006 at The Rachel Browne Theatre, Winnipeg
The End?
Choreography: Anna Sokolow, New York City, 1955
Staging and Direction: Jim May
Reconstructed historical solo
Company Premiere: April 27, 2006 at the Rachel Browne Theatre, Winnipeg
Climbing to the Moon
Choreography: Bill Evans, Brockport, New York
Solo, remount
Company Premiere: November 19, 2006 at the Rachel Browne Theatre, Winnipeg
Bell/Anti Bell
Choreography: Jolene Bailie
Costume: Anne Armit
Solo
We have all been on put on hold. An abstract solo that speaks of the frustration felt and sarcasm expressed by having to wait for and/or losing opportunities.
Premiere: July 20, 2005 at The Rachel Browne Theatre, Winnipeg
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
Reconstructed historical solos
Company Premiere: May 13, 2005 at The Rachel Browne Theatre, Winnipeg
Freddy
Choreography: Rachel Browne, Winnipeg
Costume: Anne Armit after Randal Newman
Solo, re-mount with additional development. Performed across Canada on 26 occasions in various cities.
Company Premiere: May 13, 2005 at The Rachel Browne Theatre, Winnipeg
Broken Columns
Choreography: Bill Evans, Brockport, New York, 2004
Costume: Wanda Farian, Norma LaChance and Sandi Cain
Headdress: Brenda Belmonte
Commissioned Solo
Premiere: June 30, 2004 at The Artword Theatre, Toronto
A Short Voyage
Choreography: Marie-Josee Chartier, Toronto
Costume: Michael Tong
Commissioned Solo
Premiere: May 07, 2004 at The Rachel Browne Theatre, Winnipeg
To Somewhere Else
Choreography: Marc Boivin, Montreal
Commissioned Solo
Premiere: May 07, 2004 at The Rachel Browne Theatre, Winnipeg
walking thru myself
Choreography: Joe Laughlin, Vancouver
Costume: Anne Armit
Commissioned Solo
Premiere: May 07, 2004 at The Rachel Browne Theatre, Winnipeg
The Illegibilty of this World
Choreography: Julia Sasso, Toronto
Solo, re-mount
Company Premiere: June 12, 2004 at The Rachel Browne Theatre, Winnipeg
Mara
Choreography: Stephanie Ballard, Winnipeg
Gifted Solo, Jolene performed this solo from 2000-2006
After Words
Choreography: Gaile Petursson-Hiley, Winnipeg
Gifted Solo, Jolene performed this solo from 2001-2004
Etude
Choreography: Stephanie Ballard, Winnipeg
Gifted Solo, Jolene performed this solo from 2001-2004