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With its celestial bodies launched into orbit, vibrating in a sensual and hypnotic ritual, Dog Rising mirrors the life-cycle, the dynamic flow of matter. From primitive impulses to gestures that are at times sexual, at times mechanical, Clara Furey’s new creation comes together like a polyphony of pulsating bodies, in turns dissonant and in unison.

As a point of departure for her physical research, Furey looked at bone conduction – how sound resonates in a spiral trajectory through the bones. She prefers to imagine that the vibrating shocks strengthen rather than break us. Rather than dramatize the shock, she frames it as something our skeleton needs to survive. Dog Rising opens the door to spontaneous pleasure; pulsations cause our emotions to fluctuate like waves. Neither narrative nor drama, the piece revolves around pure sensation. Notions of persistence and pleasure provoke all sorts of questions: how does our personal machine function and how can it regenerate itself? How can we replenish our resources rather than exhaust them? How can we generate energy ourselves and rely on each other so that it comes back to us? The idea of renewal is central to the work – energy deployed to edify, in pleasure rather than in suffering. Our resources need not be exhausted if they are used in the right way.

Visitors Guide

Tourism Kelowna would like to thank Westbank First Nation and Okanagan Indian Band for the privilege to live, work, and play on the tm̓xʷúlaʔxʷ (land), that is the unceded and traditional territory of syilx Okanagan peoples, the original stewards of these lands and to whom we give thanks to as our hosts

Kelowna Visitor Centre: 

238 Queensway

Kelowna, B.C. V1Y 6S4 Canada

1-800-663-4345

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